Synopses & Reviews
Cartoonists are finally getting their due. Compiled and edited by Lee Lorenz, former art editor of The New Yorkerand an acclaimed cartoonist in his own right, The Essential Cartoonistslibrary is a celebration of this unique visual art form. Each volume focuses on one truly outstanding artist and features approximately 150 of the artist's best cartoons, as well as insight into background, influences, inspirations, working habits, and more. Launching the series: The Essential George Booth and The Essential Charles Barsotti. Charles Barsotti is also a 30-year veteran of The New Yorker, and in Barsotti Lorenz presents an overview of this signature cartoonist whose rounded, elegant, sparsely detailed style evokes both the traditional world of a Thurber and the contemporary sensibility of a Roz Chast. With his simple repertory--including a nameless but lovable pooch and a monarch whose kingdom consists of a guard and a telephone--Barsotti manages to miraculously dissipate the clouds in people's minds with his unexpected humor.
Synopsis
Stone-Hearted Tycoons, Wisecracking Pasta, Mischievous Puppies, Kings and Cowboys...
By happily disregarding all the ground rules, Charles Barsotti has created his own original world - sophisticated one moment and whimsical the next, sweet and then satirical. Now the artist is getting his due in The Essential Charles Barsotti, a collection of over 100 drawings plus and appreciation and interview by noted cartoonist and art editor Lee Lorenz.
About the Author
Lee Lorenz was the art editor of The New Yorker from 1973 to 1993 and its cartoon editor until 1997. A prolific artist himself, he has contributed cartoons and covers to the magazine since 1958, and is the author of more than twenty books, including The Art of the New Yorker and You Know You're Grown Up When... and illustrator of Real Men Don't Eat Quiche and Real Men Don't Bond.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
HOME ON THE RANGE
College Days
Portrait of an Artist with a Young Family
A Bite of the Apple
OUT OF THE NEST
Hallmark Greetings
Eastward Ho!
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DESK
Emma June
Cartooning in the Sixties
End of an Era
Life after the Post
Playboy
AT THE NEW YORKER
Power and Its Discontents
Uneasy Sits the Crown
From Anthromorphism
To the Surreal
Charley Barsotti in the Twenty-First Century
THE OLD BUCKAROO
Taking a Stand
Not by Gags Alone
ART IS LONG (BUT THE FED EX MAN IS WAITING)
Courting the Muse
Style Makes the Man
A Prophet Honored
SUPPORTING THE HABIT
The English Connection
Reality Check
"Personal Best"
Last Word
A Barsotti Bibliography