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Then this is not the book for you. But if you want a backache from rolling around on the floor, laughing so much, Then this IS the right book.

When I first heard of this book, I was expecting it to be not so great but this is quite a good book, can you imagine having a cat that does nothing but eat, sleep, scratches your chair and puts you down, this book contains a lot of good moments. I always thought that the 90's Garfield books weren't going to be that great but this one is quite good. ENJOY NOW!!!!

On June 19, 1978, there was born a "lasagna with fangs". At least, that's how Jon has described his cat Garfield.

Having been on newspapers' comic pages everywhere for almost thirty years, I'm sure I don't have to tell you what Garfield is. You may not have read his strip often (or seen his cartoons, movies, stuffed animals, calenders, inside-the-car-window-sticky-suction-cup-thingies and more), but I'm sure you know who he is if you're looking at the page, so I'm not going to review the comic strip, just the particular collection in this book.

In Garfield dishes it out (his 27th book), Garfield spends Christmas at the farm, has a few snowball fights, "clomps" a few spiders, and is otherwise his usual self. He remains fat, lazy, hungry and cynical. His passive slights at Jon's self-esteem are at their peak in this book. I've read this collection a few times now, and each time is laugh-out-loud funny. Garfield is extremely witty and it's all about the punchlines in this book. In many of the strips in this collection, the third panel is the funniest.

Bottom line: I would recommend any of Garfield's books (even the ones you already own!), but this book is probably one of the best. If you like Garfield, buy this book. If you don't like Garfield, buy this book for someone who does. If you don't know who Garfield is, then... um... well, you've probably been in a coma for the last twenty years, so maybe buying this book shouldn't be your top priority - but keep it in mind for when you get your life back in order.

This book, like every other Garfield book in the numbered series, is great because of all the jokes, but this one is very special because of a story inside. SWALLOWS HIS PRIDE was great because of the Run-Away-From-Home story, while ROLLS ON was special for the Garfield-Gets-United-With-His-Mom story, but this one goes over the top for the Christmas-on-the-Farm storyline, which is clever, hip, and funny.

Everybody out there keep buying Garfield books! They can be worth a lot of money someday and can become collector's items! I'm always going to keep all of mine so when I have kids they can read them!

This book left me breathless! I was stunned! A perfect blend of comedy, drama, and even science fiction! Everything was written just as it was should have been written. Genius. Simply genius. Pure genius.

I like Garfield. He is the greatest cat and funniest I have ever read. He is great and funny. He is MAD PHAT. He always makes me say WORD when I get a new book.

Eric Walston

The saga of Garfield, Odie, and Jon continues. This dramatic and moving yet highly disturbing portrait of late-nineties domestic suburban sexual denial forces the reader to delve into his/her own tortured sexual psyche, much like Catherine and Heathcliff but as a trio each exploring their own unrequieted desire. The tension is unbearable, and Garfield's repeated replacement of food for sexual yearning is telling of late twentieth-century sexuality. Odie's alienation as a result of Garfield's spurning for the love of his inanimate replacement for Jon, in the form of Pookie, is obviously a compelling metaphor for post-colonial AIDS isolation. Alone in the confusing mire of mixed signals that is their home, poor Garfield has no choice but to seek solace in the soft, safe, squishy bosom of Pookie, denying the pain and self-loathing so apparent in his everyday encounters. Odie, much like Hillary to Bill, pointlessly attempts again and again to win the affections of a reckless, wanton, yet powerful force who has become consumed by his meager life, ironically encouched in power. Jon's unrealized quest for gratification is symbolic of the fall of Communism and is a clever representation of the fall of the wall and the troubles of subsequent unification. Supplanted in a landscape of repression and denial, our three protagonists seek comfort in their base desires: coffee becomes the drug of choice, providing escape from the hell that is life, much like today's "raver" youth seeking comfort in "ecstasy" and "techno". Woe to he/she who proceeds beyond the cover of this prophetic tome! Another masterpiece accomplishment by Davis, sure to keep him in literary courses of the future.

Have been for a long time now and i'm glad that i decided to start back. Buying the books and its really convenient with them being released in a 3 pack. Its like a bunch of classics all wrapped together, love it.

My son recently became interested in Garfield, and he just loves the books. Its fun and very easy reading, so he enjoys it, while still practicing his reading skills. Its the best of both worlds! The service was great, the shipping was very quick, and the quality of the book was excellent. Thank you for putting many smiles on our faces!

I'm glad that I waited long enough for the next book (1957-1958) to arrive so I could purchase this book. I'm quite fond of Dennis the Menace as far as I can remember - a great seller in everything!

Many talented people lose their "Id". Shultz in the last fifteen years, Ketchum much earlier. When the Dennis TV Show first appeared, he was mean! But the letters came in and they niced him up. This is also when the comic crapped out. No more cutting off little girl's pigtails, swinging them in the breeze, or insulting guests or running aound the hood nekkid. No, Dennis turned into another generic kid, who caused trouble by not shutting a door or waking up Mr. Wilson. A real shame because Hetcham was the Babe Ruth of comics for 10 years and I guess we should be grateful for that and for this wonderful series of books.
Jump the shark, anyone?

The brain child of cartoonist Hank Ketcham, Dennis the Menace became an American favorite and a staple of the comic section of newspapers across the country. Ketcham's mischievous little boy was so popular that the character also appeared in comic books, a television series, and even the movies. Fantagraphic Books has been compiling the Dennis the Menace series for a new generation of readers and has now released the third volume which covers the newspaper cartoons published from 1955 and 1956. Very highly recommended for academic and community library American Popular Culture reference collections, this Dennis the Menace series is a 'must' for American comics buffs in general, and the legions of Hank Ketcham fans particular. For those new to this series, or who have an interest in American comics art and history, visit the Fantagraphics Books website for a complete listing of their available cartoon and graphic novel titles.

Dennis the Menace is one of those classic comic strips, like Charles Schulz' Peanuts, that will endure forever. Still, it doesn't hurt to have just a little bit of help and that's where the wonderful people of Fantagraphics come in...Just as they did with Peanuts, Fantagraphics has been reprinting Hank Ketcham's wonderful Dennis the Menace daily strips in chronological order. This is the third volume in the series and reprints each daily strip from 1955 - 1956.

By this time Ketcham had really hit his stride. Dennis Mitchell complete with overalls and cowlick, and his parents are now fully developed as is irascible neighbor Mr. Wilson who now becomes the main target of Dennis'..umm...mischievous behavior. The slice-of-American-Pie, 1950's life-style simply exudes from these strips. Dad is generally always wearing a tie and mom an apron in this ode to less complicated times. Ketcham's work certainly had a huge influence on the work of Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes) and Bill Amend (Foxtrot) and their own, too smart of their own good creations of Calvin and Jason Fox.

Dennis is an equal opportunity offender whose wisecracks to police officers often get him, although more his dad, into hot water. If there's one strip that maybe defines Dennis best it may one from January 29, 1955 in which Dennis is dressed up in a suit and tie at a kids party but tells a little girl, "I Don't really look like this, Y'know." Absolutely classic! Then there is the call he gets from his parents to check on him as Dennis explains that the babysitter "chickened out and went home."

Another strip which perfectly defines his character is from July 11, 1955. Dennis has opened a fire hydrant and proclaims proudly, "Why should I shut it off? I start trouble, I don't stop it!" Never were truer words ever spoken in the annals of comic strips. Dennis' schemes range from trying to sell dad's neckties for .5 cents, to getting even with a cop by letting the air out of his patrol car tires. The Christmas strips are simply delightful as Dennis behaves as any other kid does as he scours the house to find his hidden presents, and wakes up mom & dad in the dim hours of the morning to let them know that Santa has arrived.

Ketcham was a brilliant cartoonist. He was capable of displaying such vivid emotions just with his character's expressions. You didn't need captions to know what they were thinking. We all knew a kid just like Dennis (or were one ourselves) and that's what makes Dennis so great, we can all relate to the character. This volume is testament to Dennis' enduring popularity, nicely packaged in a neat little 672 page hardcover book with dust-jacket.

Reviewed by Tim Janson

I love Dennis the Menace, he is so rotten, but oh so cute. Ketcham based Dennis on his own son, who ironically ended up time and time again a resident of the California Penal System..uh food for thought..but i digress...this is a fantastic collection and it is complete, which i appreicate, this is Ketcham at his best and Dennis where he should be, in the Fifties, really I hate to see Dennis with a cell phone or a computer, it just does not work, and the current incarnation of Dennis makes you want to scream, he is so bland and boring, it's like reading family circus, without the great drawing, it's so sad Ketcham sold out, I wish he had had the strength watterson had with Calvin, and let Dennis end with him. I recommend this to anyone with a sense of humor, you cant help but laugh at his antics and the funny way Ketcham draws his expressions, in a word: Classic. Highly recommended.

this book is one of the beat books in the world. it will make you happy and sad. if you naver read any of his work before read this one it is a good intro to lewis's work

The work of a true humorist. From writing to his dog to his wife to his own short life, Lewis Grizzard is my hero and my role model. I have read almost all of this great man's books, and I believe in everything this man wrote. I was very sad when he died, for it meant that there would be no more books of this kind of quailty from one of the leading authors in America. This particular book was Grizzard's life story, but he managed to tell it in a funny, new way. I generally stay away from autobiographies and biographies, but since this one was written by Lewis himself, I gave it a try. It proved to be as funny as all his other books and really touched me. This book was just as funny as his other works and I was not disappointed by it's quality or content. I suggest that anyone who likes either humor or autobiographies (this book is versatile) should pick up this book from your nearest library and start reading

I went out and bought this book b/c I'd listened to the abridged recorded version. This made me laugh and cry. It truely pulled me out of a "Why are we here and why do we bother?" kind of funk. I'm not sure I got the answers, but the answers didn't seem to matter after all. His presence is missed deeply in my life.

Only Lewis Grizzard could make me laugh and cry at the same time and about what? His own near death experience. His unusual humor will be sorely missed. This book is almost as good as what I think was his greatest - My Daddy was a Pistol and I'm a Son-of-a-Gun. I will miss the talents of this great writer.

The work of a true humorist. From writing to his dog to his wife to his own short life, Lewis Grizzard is my hero and my role model. I have read almost all of this great man's books, and I believe in everything this man wrote. I was very sad when he died, for it meant that there would be no more books of this kind of quailty from one of the leading authors in America. This particular book was Grizzard's life story, but he managed to tell it in a funny, new way. I generally stay away from autobiographies and biographies, but since this one was written by Lewis himself, I gave it a try. It proved to be as funny as all his other books and really touched me. This book was just as funny as his other works and I was not disappointed by it's quality or content. I suggest that anyone who likes either humor or autobiographies (this book is versatile) should pick up this book from your nearest library and start reading

I brought this to my brother's 50th birthday party (wild weekend gathering of far-flung siblings and their spouses) and it was a huge hit. We laughed until we cried! It's so funny because these are actual patented inventions - what were they thinking?!!!

Scott Seegert has scoured the U.S. patent database and published an illustrated guide to a hundred of the best inventions by guy's guys. You need a true Guy to invent Joe's Dead Body Cube (what it sounds like - a translucent cube for storing your loved ones), Harold's Pogo-Copter (self-explanatory), Ricardo's Toilet Lounger (think "throne"), or Roy's .22 Caliber Golf Club. The author has expertly organized these inventions into categories such as "Cool Games That Guys Came Up With," "Neat Ways For Guys To Shoot Each Other," "Things That Make Guys More Attractive To Women (At Least in the Guys' Minds)," and "Things That Are Unnecessarily Dangerous And, Therefore, Appealing To Guys."

I've seen and received my fair share of books on strange patents over the years (I was an aspiring intellectual property lawyer back around age 10), and Seegert has written one of the best. He didn't rapidly churn out a quirky "gift" book; rather, he applied his engineering degree, MBA, and love of all things created by Guys to turn his hobby of collecting strange patents into a full-fledged humorous look at real inventions from the mind of the American Guy. Each invention is given a two-page spread complete with illustrations and diagrams. My sole complaint about the book is that only inventor first names and years are given, without reference to the actual patent number. What if I need to contact one of these Guys to license John's Portable Canine Commode or Andre's Penis Exerciser?

Every man in America needs to own a copy of this book if for no other reason then so that the women in their lives will read it too and realize how much worse their choice in a mate could have been! Scott Seegert's book is a hilarious example of just how wrong some 'great' American male inventors have gone. A must read for anyone who wants to fall off their chair laughing!

I bought this book and read it in one sitting, which was hard to do with pop squirting out of my nose (hey, a new innovation for his next book:laminated pages!). Seegert's got a way with words, totally and smoothly in control of his arena:the American Guy. He turns a phrase with ease, taking actual patents and their accompanying drawings, while commenting on them in ways guys can truly appreciate. I found myself laughing about it while driving to work the next day. This is the kind of book to take with to the annual golf trip, fishing jaunt or hunting camp. You can pass it around and laugh about it. Exactly what guys do on those kinds of get-aways. Hilarious and witty, unexpected writing with punchlines that read in the spirit of Letterman and the aloofness of The Office. A real gem.

This is great! Good humor that even women can relate to (because we know men just like these guys!) Scott Seegert is a funny guy. Enjoyed every minute of it.

In this novel, also published as Bertie Wooster Sees It Through, farceur supreme P.G. Wodehouse brings together all the elements for a delightful Bertie and Jeeves adventure: the endangerment of Bertie's bachelorhood, threats to his physical well-being, Aunt Dahlia's magazine Milady's Boudoir, the necessity for Bertie to steal jewelry, the possibility that Aunt Dahlia will have to part with her marvelous cook Anatole, and more.

Bertie's narration, always a joy, is in particularly fine form in this novel, and, as always, Bertie's engagement is broken off when his fiancee decides to wed another, Anatole stays with Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley court, and things in general turn out for the best, thanks largely to Jeeves's genius. Any veteran reader of Wodehouse's work knows that this will be the case, but Wodehouse's genius is such that the book is an absolute joy, anyway, on the first reading or the seventh.

I listened to this again for the first time in over a year. It has lost nothing. Every humorous incident is just as funny the second time around. Wodehouse has an ingenious way of pulling you into comedic situations and you're suddenly there before you realize it. Jonathan Cecil is one of the best of the Wodehouse narrators.

To the ever growing Audio Partners catalogue of complete books on tape can be added yet another of those hilarious Jeeves novels, this one called "Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit." Written in 1954, this Bertie Wooster epic brings in many characters familiar from earlier works (Roderick Strode, Aunt Agatha, Uncle Tom, Frances Craye, Stilton Cheesewright) and many all-too familiar situations. Yes, Wodehouse does repeat himself, but I look upon it as ringing the changes. A line of bells is a line of bells, but their various combinations are what make things interesting.

Again Bertie is trying to avoid both marriage and having his spine broken in an increasing number of places, again having to purloin a valuable object to help out his only likable aunt, again depending on Jeeves first, middle, and last to extricate himself from dilemmas of his own doing and (at least in this book) those of others. Of the four actors assigned to read these novels and short stories on Audio Partners tapes, I think Jonathan Cecil is the best. He gives Wooster just that goofy intonation and all the other characters their due, making this set of four audio tapes a real humdinger. I have grown to realize that it is not so much that Wodehouse says funny things as that he says ordinary things in a funny way. That is why almost all of the Jeeves adventures are narrated first person by Wooster himself.

Just the ticket to cheer one up after a hard day or during a long boring drive.

As a PS, there is a very good life of Wodehouse by David A. Jasen put out by Schirmer Trade Books, "P.G. Wodehouse: A Portrait of a Master." It makes an easy read and brings you closer to the creator of the dreamworld in which lives the Woosters and the rest.

With delightful, tongue-in-cheek humor, P. G. Wodehouse continues the adventures of Bertie Wooster, an often silly member of the upper class who depends on his much more sensible "gentleman's gentleman," Jeeves, to keep his life from falling apart. In this novel, Wooster has been growing a mustache for the two weeks that Jeeves has been on a shrimping holiday, and he fears that Jeeves will not like it. Sure, enough Jeeves does not, and neither do any of his other friends--except for Lady Florence Craye, his former fiancée, now engaged (to Bertie's great relief) to Stilton Cheesewright.

The fate of the mustache is only the starting point for Wodehouse's comedy of errors, however, as Bertie goes from London to his Aunt Dahlia's country home, where Lady Florence, Stilton Cheesewright, and Percy Gorringe, a young man who wants to produce a play based on Lady Florence's book, are also in attendance. As Lady Florence and Stilton Cheesewright play out their on-again, off-again romance, Percy is casting longing eyes at Florence, who is flirting with Bertie, once again.

As is always the case with Wodehouse, events quickly become more complex. Percy wants Bertie to invest one thousand pounds in the play. Aunt Dahlia, wanting to sell her magazine, decides to "salt the mine," secretly selling her pearls so she can serialize a novel by a famous romance author to make the magazine more attractive. Her husband, at this point, decides to have the pearls appraised. Bertie takes Florence to a nightclub to "do research for her new novel," and he is arrested. Not surprisingly, it is the resilient Jeeves who comes to the rescue, time and time again, proving that good sense and grounding in the real world are far more important than the silly pretensions of Bertie and his friends.

Wodehouse's gentle satire of upperclass life makes his novels appeal to a broad spectrum of readers. His word play, consummate sense of irony, and ability to make dialogue sound simultaneously absurd and realistic create a fast-moving set of outrageous scenes in which Jeeves, the "gentleman's gentleman" proves to be the real hero, the one person who knows how to live in this silly world. Mary Whipple

P.G. Wodehouse writes in a Dave Barry meets Agatha Christie style which makes you laugh out loud. P.G. Wodehouse was Agatha Christie's favourite author for a good reason. He gives you a visit to England in 1930 (or thereabouts) and plots with every twist you can imagine. In this one, Bertie, the upperclass twit, gets himself into the usual fix, and Jeeves finds a way out. The plot carries you along and keeps you in both suspense and stitches. Please listen to it if you have even a smidgen of the blues! If you have kids who are intelligent teens, this is a great family car trip book.

I have read just about every book of merit on Joseph Cornell, the artist considered to be the father of modern assemblage. This book outshines all others in its brilliant spectrum of biography, photography and insight into the artist and his work. The full-color images are crisp and stunning and allow the reader to really study the details of Cornell's construction and craftsmanship. The text is informative and scholarly while remaining interesting and entertaining. If you want to purchase one book for your bookshelf to represent the life and work of Cornell, this is the one.

This is a large format, paperback book with lots of photos of work, many of which I hadn't seen before. The text is interesting but full of psychological insights and artistic inferences which do not come from Cornell but from the author. I found it worthwhile as a reference work for the photos and dates of works. A much more fascinating biography of Cornell is by Deborah Solomon of Sunday NY Times Magazine interview fame. Published in 1999, I believe, "Utopia Parkway." A really good read, especially about Cornell's later life where he became famous and met a lot of rising female art stars such as Yayoi Kusama and Carolanne Schneeman (sp?) and even had sexual escapades! Not the isolated hermit we thought he was!

Joseph Cornell's work is beautiful. It's a pity that he is such a poorly-known artist but as the author suggests perhaps he was born a few decades too late or his art was a few decades too early. He has certainly missed out on his rightful place in most books on Surrealist art. This book is very-well presented - a photograph or two of Cornell's work on almost every page and text not only explaining the inspiration and the work process behind the assemblages but also conveying the quirky nature of the artist. If Joseph Cornell showed little humour as a person then there is plenty of it to be found in his work (e.g., lobster ballet box). This art book is so well-written and interesting that it can be read from cover to cover in one day. There is something new to be found in the photographs every time.

Fortunate is the arts library to have the restored and embellished 1977 monograph on the life and work of American artist Joseph Cornell, an artist whose importance not only to the craft of assemblage but to the history of American art continues to grow as the years pass. Author Diane Waldman initially based her monograph on extensive interviews with Cornell and his confreres in preparing the 1967 retrospective of Cornell's art for the Guggenheim Museum. And fine though that now extinct monograph was, it was important to update it with the added information gleaned from the 1978 gift of the bulk of Cornell's archives donated by the heirs of Cornell to the Smithsonian Museum, forming the Joseph Cornell Study Center in Washington, DC.

But enough of background. Waldman the writer and historian presents here one of the more sensitive tributes to Joseph Cornell in print. Included in this rather brief book are over forty color plates of many of Cornell's greatest works. The color reproductions and photography of these basically three-dimensional works is outstanding and allows the viewer to pause with each work, enhance the visual appreciation with the accompanying writing by the author, and then return once again to the biographical data of a man at odds with conformity and with somewhat fractured social graces.

Joseph Cornell was a unique artist and one whose impact on all forms of art (especially the eventual 'installation art' phase) is yearly more appreciated. This fine book is as sound a source of information on his life and works as any of the now many volumes on the shelves. Highly Recommended to both the novice and the expert. Grady Harp, February 06

Finally, a beautiful, comprehensive book about Joseph Cornell and his work. Diane Waldman knew Cornell intimately ever since she was an art student (and through doing gallery shows for him), and this affinity shows; this is ultimately a book of love and tribute to a friend.

The biographical material is excellent. Most fascinating segments deal with Cornell's stranger sides, such as when at his brother Robert's funeral, Joseph put a sheet over his head and laughed, creeping everyone out, and explained it was only a side joke that Robert would have understood. Cornell was terribly timid in front of women (particularly the ones he fancied) and had a complete dependence on his mother (he died months after she did). Waldman probes these and other significant personal issues (such as his association with Surrealism, and how the younger artists that have passed through him have influenced his work) and examines how they factored in Cornell's art. The book is generous with illustrations - Waldman supports her points with not only Cornell's work, but with other artists that were influential to him.

However, it is the lonely and telling poetry of Cornell's work that is the heart of this book. The boxes that Waldman chooses to include are presented intelligently, and beautifully. The innocence and nostalgia of each box is lovingly portrayed. The Medici series - Cornell's especially heartbreakingly beautiful and mysteriously passionate work - is presented perfectly by Waldman with thoughtful commentary and context, capturing in full its yearning and ardor. Waldman has given us a book that speaks eloquently about why Cornell is an artists people will remember for generations hereafter.

I happened to pick up this book at a time when I was feeling particularly depressed, almost suicidal, about my life as a lesbian. Within a few minutes after starting to read it I was laughing out loud, and by the time I was halfway through I was literally rolling on the floor. There is something on every single page of this book that struck home in a way that made me not only laugh, but to begin to love myself and my life again. Reading this book was a turning point for me, I look at myself and my friends with compassion and affection and I realize how liberating it is to have a built-in opportunity to exit from the main road of society's expecations for women. I HIGHLY recommend it!

I loved this little book. It was light hearted and fun to read. The cover intrigued me. I laughed outloud and that says to me it is a good book. I suppose I related to some of it. It was entertaining.

It is best to chose wisely when deciding where to read this book. I started in a restaurant, with starched linen tableclothes. I laughed so much that I spat tomato and basil soup over a good proportion of it. Ms Eisenbach manages to be funny whilst also giving good advice on such difficult subjects as: When to phone a woman after you have had sex with her. Her account of naming a lesbian pet is wonderful but may cause you to have fits of the giggles next time you hear a friend call her dog. She advised aspirant lesbians to "lighten up" This is just the book to do it!

I know this book was not aimed at guys. I found it in the humor section and even though it was not what I expected, I read it from cover to cover. Fellas, you could do a lot worse than getting tips on picking up chicks from a lesbian. Ladies, read the list of things not to do the day after a hot date (show up with "a few things.")
It will be a long time before society at large is ready to accept gay people. Regardless of your politics, you have to respect the courage of those who live their lives in the open and even offer insight and benefit of wisdom to others.

I happened to pick up this book at a time when I was feeling particularly depressed, almost suicidal, about my life as a lesbian. Within a few minutes after starting to read it I was laughing out loud, and by the time I was halfway through I was literally rolling on the floor. There is something on every single page of this book that struck home in a way that made me not only laugh, but to begin to love myself and my life again. Reading this book was a turning point for me, I look at myself and my friends with compassion and affection and I realize how liberating it is to have a built-in opportunity to exit from the main road of society's expecations for women. I HIGHLY recommend it!

I like this book, which I received as a gift. The humor is to the point. These cartoons are going to be displayed all over my classroom for all to enjoy. I can't wait for volume two.

Teaching can become a grind. When that happens it can grind you down. Don't let it happen to you. Seek out the pearls of fun, humorous insights and pleasure that occur each day, if you look for them. This book is full of really clever cartoons - the kind you see in better magazines - about the teaching experience. I use these cartoons for my bulletin board, to remind me that teaching can be fun, for my intra school memos, to make sure they're read, and for my Powerpoint presentations to get the audience interested in what I have to say.

The author is not only a fine cartoonist but an astute observer of teachers and teaching. As a teacher myself, I never knew that the profession could be seen as an endless source of humor. Now I approach each day with a new perspective on the profession. I have placed a few of the cartoons on my bulletin board and they attract staff members. The kids like them too. I really enjoyed this book.

I am a teacher and I think that this book should be required reading every day before a teacher enters the school building. Effective teaching is all about the right attitude and this delightful compilation of cartoons about the profession, will help you look at daily teaching situations in a new way. These 'New Yorker' type cartoons are really funny and display a knowledge of the teaching profession. Each cartoon is a gem. I have placed two of them on my class bulletin board. Reading this book has helped me stop taking myself so seriously and start relaxing and enjoying what I love to do best...teach!

This collection of professional cartoons aims at the funnybone and hits its target. A humorous spin is put on familar teaching situations. As a teacher,I realize that I was actually part of many of the situations presented in these cartoons. Ah, if only I had laughed then! These cartoons deserve a spot on the bulletin board in all teachers' workrooms. The cartoons also make useful ice-breakers and presentations for educational meetings.You thought teaching was hard work? Not to laugh at these cartoons is hard work!

I have two daughters, ages 12 & 7. Their brother has enjoyed the classic Marvel comic book reprints for years. But have you ever looked for comics for young girls that are worth their reading? Slim pickings! Happily, it's Little Lulu to the rescue!

Both of my girls have had a ball reading and rereading these paperback volumes collecting the classic strip of a bygone era. Even my little one, whose reading skills are just emerging, has her nose in these books constantly (sometimes reading them out loud to me).

They're clever, clean, and genuinely entertaining. My only wish is that they were reproduced in color, instead of b&w. (That would probably triple the price of each installment, though). There is one special color issue, so be sure to snag that one.

I have all the Little Lulu books. I grew up reading Little Lulu comic books and now my children are reading them. Besides being great fun, they tell stories usually involving morals and have great storylines. Why don't they make comics like this anymore?

I recently finished plowing through the collected paperback editions of the classic 1950s "Little Lulu" comics, and wanted to put in my vote... yes! yes! yes! True, it's a little disappointing that the strips are reprinted in black-&-white and not in the original color versions, but the real genius of these works is in the draftsmanship of artists John Stanley and Irving Tripp, and once you get onto their wavelength, even these half-size B&W reprints are a pure delight. They can say so much with such economy -- a single panel of Lulu's unbridled mischief can have you laughing your head off, and here, in this multi-volume collection, you've got a real treasure trove of some of the best graphic-art humor produced in the 20th Century. Great stuff, highly recommended, and major kudos to Dark Horse for making this artwork both available and affordable.

The numbering and publishing order of Dark Horse's "Little Lulu" series is rather confusing. Although "My Dinner with Lulu" was their third release, it is labeled Volume #1 in the series. This is because it reprints the first comic "books" featuring the character; Dell Four Color #74, #97, #110, #115, #120 (published over a two year period, 1945-1946). All 52 pages of content from these five books is included, unfortunately the covers and advertisements are not. And the reprints are black and white, which makes the volumes very affordable if poor substitutes for the original four-color pages.

John Stanley did all the pencils and some of the inking for these five books, in partnership with Irving Tripp. Cartoonist Marge Buell created the characters in 1935 for the Saturday Evening Post and the early comic books had to secure her approval before publication. Judging from the obvious style differences, it is likely that several of Buell's multi-panel one-page SEP stories were included in the comic books and reprinted in this volume.

The 1945-46 drawings are more faithful to Buell's style than later Lulu issues. Note that the characters' mouths are only shown when they are speaking and they have only a single eyebrow line going across their foreheads. Despite this both Buell and Stanley are able to convey an amazing number expressions and emotions.

Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.

While this is 'volume 3' of Dark Horse Comics' reprint series of Little Lulu, it actual reprints the first 5 of the 10 "Four Color" Little Lulu comics (#74, 97, 110, 115, 120) which were published before Little Lulu got her own title. Hopefully volume 4 of the series will reprint the last 5 of the Four Color issues.