01803cam a2200313 i 4500 546670131 TxAuBib 20220310120000.0 220225s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780358659099 HRD 27.99 0358659094 HRD 27.99 TxAuBib rda Sipress, David. What's so funny? [BOOK] : a cartoonist's memoir / David Sipress. What is so funny? Boston : Mariner Books, [2022] xiv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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? Provided by publisher. 20220310. Sipress, David. Cartoonists United States Biography. Autobiographies.