What's So Funny?
A Cartoonist's Memoir

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

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

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