Whats So Funny?, David Sipress
Whats So Funny?, David Sipress
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What's So Funny?
A Cartoonist's Memoir

Author: David Sipress

Narrator: T. Ryder Smith

Unabridged: 7 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/05/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

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? Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About David Sipress

DAVID SIPRESS has been staff cartoonist since 1998 for The New Yorker, where he has published nearly 700 cartoons. He lectures widely on cartooning, and his autobiographical writing has appeared frequently on newyorker.com.     


Reviews

In the beginning, this book reminded me of the "Metropolitan Diary" column in the "New York Times". Great! That is one of my favorite features in the paper. Only, those diary entries are positive types, whereas this memoir was somewhat melancholic. Yes, it has funny cartoons, but David Sipress is wr......more

Goodreads review by Thomas

The author responds to the question of where he gets his cartoon ideas from. In short, many of them come from his parents and sister, though you may feel you end up learning more about them than you wanted to. He had a Jewish father who grew up in grinding poverty in Tsarist Russia who emigrated with......more

Goodreads review by Armand

It's the autobiography of a cartoonist, and the cartoons spread throughout the book are delightful. They tie into whatever experience he is talking about, and not all of them are funny or nice. His life wasn't an easy one but he made the most of it and had a few laughs along the way. Some really fun......more