Review of
Cartoons
by Guindon, by Richard Guindon ISBN 0399507000
Five out of five stars
The cartoons in
this book lampoon humans and their many foibles, with a concentration on foolishness,
self-deception and petty failures. One of my favorites has a man dressed in clothing
of the late sixties or early seventies, pants with horizontal stripes and
jacket with horizontal and vertical stripes, saying, “How many people do you
know who have actually READ their entire insurance policy and are prepared to
discuss it intelligently?”
One that most
people will relate to is the one with a woman in curlers and some kind of
housecoat holding a coffee cup and a
piece of cake or pie and walking over to the table. Seated at that table is a
significantly overweight version of herself that tells her, “Hello. I’m your
appetite.” Another one that is petty, yet relevant to us all has two women in
an office and one says to the other, “It was ten years ago today that I
canceled my subscription to Vogue.” To many, that would be a sign of youth gone
by.
There are no
side-splitters here, just snapshots of life, how we deal with it, but never
really try to make sense of it all.
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