What's So Funny?: A Cartoonist's Memoir

Title: What's So Funny?: A Cartoonist's Memoir
Author: Sipress, David
ISBN: 9780358659099
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2022
Binding: Book
Language: English
Condition: New
New from the publisher

Memoir 1405573

Publisher Description:

David Sipress, a dreamer and obsessive drawer living with his Upper West Side family in the age of JFK and Sputnik, goes hazy when it comes to the ceaselessly imparted lessons-on-life from his meticulous father and the angsty expectations of his migraine-prone mother. With wry and brilliantly observed prose, Sipress paints his hapless place in the family, from the time he is tricked by his unreliable older sister into rocketing his pet turtle out his twelfth-floor bedroom window, to the moment he walks away from a Harvard PhD program in Russian history to begin his life as a professional cartoonist. Sipress' cartoons appear in the story with spot-on precision, inducing delightful Aha! moments in answer to the perennial question aimed at cartoonists: Where do you get your ideas?