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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2020-07-07
- Pages
- 144
- ISBN
- 9781617757969
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Akashic Books
ISBN-10
1617757969
ISBN-13
9781617757969
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7038443869
Product Key Features
Book Title
Long Story Short : Turning Famous Books Into Cartoons
Number of Pages
148 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
Topic / Politics, Topic / Celebrity & Popular Culture, Form / Comic Strips & Cartoons
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Humor
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
15.6 Oz
Item Length
0.7 in
Item Width
0.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-943607
Reviews
Words fail me when I try to explain why Long Story Short is so brilliant, which I guess is the whole point of the book! Why talk over Beethoven (he wouldn't be able to hear you, anyway) or yammer on about poetry when a mute sunset can do it better? Here is art from an incredibly diverse group of cartoonists, painters, and illustrators that speaks for itself on literature's most novel ideas--now shut up and listen!, One of the most fascinating books I have had the pleasure to 'flip through' in the past decade or more!, Critical Praise for Mr. Fish's Go Fish: How to Win Contempt and Influence People : "Mr. Fish dissects the journalistic responsibility he faces as a cartoonist to make it make sense. It being his raw emotional output in response to a given stimuli (government, society, et al.) manifesting itself via pen on paper without regard to the cleverly pointed punchline that will accompany and ultimately define it...The drawings are a celebration of the technical mastery and unbridled emotional truth of Dwayne Booth--the Clark Kent to Superman's Mr. Fish." -- Huffington Post "Fish's work...makes you want to do something--even if you're not entirely sure what that something is--to change things for the better, and the feeling stays with you long after the book is closed." -- Verbicide Magazine "I thought I was getting a picture book of politically incorrect satirical cartoons to review. What I got was an evening of wonderment, thought, confusion, discovery, and a deep appreciation of a really deeply disturbed and brilliant journalist, cartoonist, and satirist." -- New York Journal of Books "Mr. Fish is one of the few brilliant souls who describes and illustrates the earth's insanity and all of the hypocrisy and still somehow doesn't detract from my need to masturbate constantly." -- Richard Lewis , Comedian/Actor "Behold the cartoons in Go Fish : there is no more savage yet brilliant wit than that possessed by Mr. Fish, who will never compromise on his deep artistic insight or the outrageous honesty of his social commentary. In a sellout culture he is that rare witness for unfettered truth." -- Robert Sheer , author of The Great American Stickup "Mr. Fish's penis obsession has evolved into unique visual metaphorical truths that probe the very core of politics, culture, religion--pick a target, any target--yes, he has indeed learned to think outside the cocks." -- Paul Krassner , author of Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counter-Culture "[Mr. Fish is] the first person in the media I've talked to, in the forty years I've been in public life, who put his finger on really what [are] deep philosophical questions." -- Dennis Kucinich "You [Mr. Fish] get the gold medal for asking me things that nobody's ever asked me before." -- Joan Baez "Few individuals are as clued in to the volatility of the current political climate as iconic cartoonist Dwayne Booth (aka Mr. Fish)...known for pointed and piquant single-panel cartoons that fearlessly and relentlessly take on the most sacred of cows in public life." -- LA Weekly "A vibrant example of political cartooning as it is practiced at its heights...Anyone who thinks political cartooning is stale need only take a closer look at this body of work...Certifiably brilliant...The photographic elegance and immediacy with which this drawing is executed is typical of the most refined Mr. Fish style." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Raw, severe, raging, and twistedly funny, Go Fish is a one-of-a-kind compilation meant to provoke thought as well as entertain...motivating readers to stop being complacent, open their eyes to injustice, and actually do something about it." -- Midwest Book Review "Nobody does what Mr. Fish does, and even if they did, they wouldn't do it as well as Mr. Fish does. Go Fish is that rarest of creatures; an essential collection of political cartoons." -- David Rees , author of Get Your War On, Mr. Fish's chameleon-like versatility makes him the Ween of cartooning. He and his band of accomplices jolt you from one literary world to the next, each illustration like a little puzzle testing your cultural literacy. A short-attention-span joyride., Mr. Fish's ingenious collection of cartoon distillations of famous books shows why print editors so fear the art form. These succinct drawings by Fish and his artist collaborators really ARE worth a thousand words, and in Tolstoy's case, many more!, The artists' ability to communicate with a picture and just a few words conveys the power and directness of the best cartoons.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
741.5/6973
Table Of Content
Introduction The Catcher in the Rye , by J. D. Salinger; illustrated by Tamara Knoss Lolita , by Vladimir Nabokov Native Son , by Richard Wright; illustrated by Keith Henry Brown Frankenstein , by Mary Shelley; illustrated by Eli Valley The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test , by Tom Wolfe; illustrated by Wes Tyrell The New Testament , by Paul the Apostle Slaughterhouse-Five , by Kurt Vonnegut Moby-Dick , by Herman Melville The Rings of Saturn , by W. G. Sebald; illustrated by Sarah Awad Hamlet , by William Shakespeare The Picture of Dorian Gray , by Oscar Wilde; illustrated by Sam Henderson The Metamorphosis , by Franz Kafka The Scarlet Letter , by Nathaniel Hawthorne; illustrated by Ted Rall Roget''s Thesaurus , by Peter Mark Roget; illustrated by Lodi Marasescu Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , by Roald Dahl; illustrated by Surag Ramachandran Madame Bovary , by Gustave Flaubert The Communist Manifesto , by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; illustrated by Stephanie McMillan "Ozymandias," by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Horace Smith; illustrated by Tami Knight How to Win Friends and Influence People , by Dale Carnegie I am JoaquÍn / Yo soy Joaquín , by Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales; illustrated by Eric J. Garcia The Anarchist Cookbook , by William Powell; illustrated by Marissa Dougherty A Brief History of Time , by Stephen Hawking Brave New World , by Aldous Huxley Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , by Mark Twain One Hundred Years of Solitude , by Gabriel García Márquez; illustrated by Siri Dokken Understanding Medi a , by Marshall McLuhan Heart of Darkness , by Joseph Conrad; illustrated by John G. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle , by Haruki Murakami; illustrated by Andy Singer Romeo and Juliet , by William Shakespeare Don Quixote , by Miguel de Cervantes Harry Potter , by J. K. Rowling Anna Karenina , by Leo Tolstoy; illustrated by Tara Seibel Invisible Man , by Ralph Ellison; illustrated by Gary Dumm A People''s History of the United States , by Howard Zinn The Stranger , by Albert Camus A Boy''s Own Story , by Edmund White A Confederacy of Dunces , by John Kennedy Toole Animal Farm , by George Orwell; illustrated by Clare Kolat Paradise Lost , by John Milton Howl , by Allen Ginsberg Metamorphoses (Pygmalion) , by Ovid The Man Who Died , by D. H. Lawrence Tales of Ordinary Madness , by Charles Bukowski; illustrated by Nate Ulsh Oedipus Rex , by Sophocles Fahrenheit 451 , by Ray Bradbury; illustrated by Benjamin Slyngstad Catch-22 , by Joseph Heller Civilization and its Discontents , by Sigmund Freud 1984 , by George Orwell Infinite Jest , by David Foster Wallace The Old Man and the Sea , by Ernest Hemingway; illustrated by Ron Hill The Armies of the Night , by Norman Mailer I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , by Maya Angelou Notes from Underground , by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Diary of a Young Girl , by Anne Frank The Lord of the Rings , by J. R. R. Tolkien; illustrated by J. P. Trostle On Narcissism , by Sigmund Freud A Room of One''s Own , by Virginia Woolf The War Prayer , by Mark Twain On the Origin of Species , by Charles Darwin The Invisible Man , by H. G. Wells; illustrated by John Kovaleski American Psycho , by Bret Easton Ellis Why I am Not A Christian , by Bertrand Russell On the Road , by Jack Kerouac Fear of Flying , by Erica Jong; illustrated by Beth McCaskey Wikipedia , by Everybody War and Peace , by Leo Tolstoy *All illustrations by Mr. Fish except where noted
Synopsis
"Mr. Fish's chameleon-like versatility makes him the Ween of cartooning. He and his band of accomplices jolt you from one literary world to the next, each illustration like a little puzzle testing your cultural literacy. A short-attention-span joyride." -- Jen Sorensen , Herblock Prize-winning cartoonist, the Nib, Daily Kos , and the Nation "Words fail me when I try to explain why Long Story Short is so brilliant, which I guess is the whole point of the book Why talk over Beethoven (he wouldn't be able to hear you, anyway) or yammer on about poetry when a mute sunset can do it better? Here is art from an incredibly diverse group of cartoonists, painters, and illustrators that speaks for itself on literature's most novel ideas--now shut up and listen " -- Bob Mankoff , former cartoon editor of the New Yorker "Mr. Fish's ingenious collection of cartoon distillations of famous books shows why print editors so fear the art form. These succinct drawings by Fish and his artist collaborators really ARE worth a thousand words, and in Tolstoy's case, many more " -- Signe Wilkinson , Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News The Catcher in the Rye. Lolita. Moby-Dick. Infinite Jest. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. A Room of One's Own. Native Son . These are but a handful of classic works spectacularly distilled into single pages by Mr. Fish and his talented Friends. By boiling down the big pictures of well-known works of both fiction and nonfiction, the contributing cartoonists, have, with Long Story Short , literally made long stories short by abridging their essence and encapsulating their meaning into succinct snapshots that are at times funny, sad, inspiring, rude, crude, beautiful, profound, stomach-turning, and mind-blowing. Includes original artwork from: Mr. Fish, Ted Rall, Stephanie McMillan, Sarah Awad, Eli Valley, Wes Tyrell, Tamara Knoss, Keith Henry Brown, Sam Henderson, Lodi Marasescu, Surag Ramachandran, Tami Knight, Eric J. Garcia, Marissa Dougherty, Siri Dokken, John G., Andy Singer, Tara Seibel, Gary Dumm, Clare Kolat, Nate Ulsh, Benjamin Slyngstad, Ron Hill, JP Trostle, John Kovaleski, and Beth McCaskey., The Catcher in the Rye. Lolita. Moby-Dick. Infinite Jest. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. A Room of One's Own. Native Son. These are but a handful of classic works spectacularly distilled into single pages by Mr. Fish and his talented Friends. By boiling down the big pictures of well-known works of both fiction and nonfiction, the contributing cartoonists, have, with Long Story Short, literally made long stories short by abridging their essence and encapsulating their meaning into succinct snapshots that are at times funny, sad, inspiring, rude, crude, beautiful, profound, stomach-turning, and mind-blowing. Includes original artwork from: Mr. Fish, Ted Rall, Stephanie McMillan, Sarah Awad, Eli Valley, Wes Tyrell, Tamara Knoss, Keith Henry Brown, Sam Henderson, Lodi Marasescu, Surag Ramachandran, Tami Knight, Eric J. Garcia, Marissa Dougherty, Siri Dokken, John G., Andy Singer, Tara Seibel, Gary Dumm, Clare Kolat, Nate Ulsh, Benjamin Slyngstad, Ron Hill, JP Trostle, John Kovaleski, a, "A subversive volume that translates a series of complex works of literature into a single-page illustration . . . A variety of artists rise to a unique literary and visual challenge." -- Kirkus Reviews The Catcher in the Rye . Lolita . Moby-Dick . Infinite Jest . I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings . A Room of One's Own . Native Son . These are but a handful of classic works spectacularly distilled by Mr. Fish and a very talented group of painters, illustrators, graphic designers, and political cartoonists into succinct snapshots that are at times funny, sad, inspiring, rude, crude, beautiful, profound, stomach-turning, and mind-blowing. Includes original artwork from: Mr. Fish, Ted Rall, Stephanie McMillan, Sarah Awad, Eli Valley, Wes Tyrell, Tamara Knoss, Keith Henry Brown, Sam Henderson, Lodi Marasescu, Surag Ramachandran, Tami Knight, Eric J. Garcia, Marissa Dougherty, Siri Dokken, John G., Andy Singer, Tara Seibel, Gary Dumm, Clare Kolat, Nate Ulsh, Benjamin Slyngstad, Ron Hill, JP Trostle, John Kovaleski, and Beth McCaskey., The Catcher in the Rye. Lolita. Moby-Dick. Infinite Jest. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. A Room of One's Own. Native Son. These are but a handful of classic works spectacularly distilled into single pages by Mr. Fish and his talented Friends. By boiling down the big pictures of well-known works of both fiction and nonfiction, the contributing cartoonists, have, with Long Story Short, literally made long stories short by abridging their essence and encapsulating their meaning into succinct snapshots that are at times funny, sad, inspiring, rude, crude, beautiful, profound, stomach-turning, and mind-blowing. Includes original artwork from: Mr. Fish, Ted Rall, Stephanie McMillan, Sarah Awad, Eli Valley, Wes Tyrell, Tamara Knoss, Keith Henry Brown, Sam Henderson, Lodi Marasescu, Surag Ramachandran, Tami Knight, Eric J. Garcia, Marissa Dougherty, Siri Dokken, John G., Andy Singer, Tara Seibel, Gary Dumm, Clare Kolat, Nate Ulsh, Benjamin Slyngstad, Ron Hill, JP Trostle, John Kovaleski, and Beth McCaskey.
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