The Best of PUNCH Cartoons

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-11-15 rating:
A real treasure
I started laughing at the first page I opened in this wonderful book - the cartoons are just as funny today as they were when first published in Punch. And if you're like me you could do with a laugh right now. There are 600 pages and 3 or 4 cartoons per page, spanning the decades from the mid-19th century to the end of the twentieth. The early cartoons are drawn with exquisite skill which we're perhaps not used to today, and are no less funny for that, but it's the more recent ones that I love most, with classics from Honeysett, Husband and Heath keeping company with names that are less familiar to us but whose work is still funny enough to have my father in stitches. I miss Punch but if you want a Christmas present for someone who could do with some cheering up, this mght be the answer.


review by: date: 2008-11-07 rating:
A rapid and humourous scan of social history
For me cartoons provide a wonderful social and political commentary and they're funny as well.

It would be possible to list and describe each cartoonist, but I'd rather say that the drawing and punchlines from across the years tell you so much about the issue being lampooned and the period in question.

New to me, was that Tenniel was a cartoonist as well as having produced the best illustrations for Alice in Wonderland

The collection is well put together, it's well worth the Amazon price.

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