Excerpt
Excerpt:
This is not an advice book. If youre ever taken advice from a cartoonist, theres a good chance it didnt end well. For starters, its hard to know when a cartoonist is being serious and when he or she is constructing an elaborate practical joke. Ive crafted pranks that spanned years, sometimes when no one was in on the joke but me.
On top of that, Im getting paid to write this book, and we all know that money distorts truth like a hippo in a thong. And lets not forget Im a stranger to most of you. Its never a good idea to trust strangers.
Im also not an expert at anything, including my own job. I draw like an inebriated howler monkey and my writing style falls somewhere between baffling and sophomoric. Its an ongoing mystery to me why I keep getting paid.
Most advice-like books take the view that the author is an omnipotent source of knowledge and the reader is an empty vessel of dysfunction. I approach this book with a more realistic humility. For starters, anyone who reads this sort of book is likely to be brighter than the average citizen, and, in far too many cases, brighter than me.