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Books > Sport & Leisure > Humour > Cartoons & comic strips
Die Groot Drie bied 'n sonderlinge blik op die opkoms, hoogbloei en
uiteindelike ondergang van Afrikaner-nasionalisme vanuit die
perspektief van drie wereldklas-satirici: D.C. Boonzaier, T.O.
Honiball en Fred Mouton. Die Burger is in 1915 in die lewe geroep
om as mondstuk te dien vir Afrikaners wat aan die begin van die
20ste eeu op hul kniee gedwing is deur die Anglo-Boereoorlog,
verstedeliking en grootskaalse armoede. In die eerste honderd jaar
van die koerant se bestaan het net die drie kunstenaars diens
gedoen as spotprenttekenaars. Boonzaier het skerp en raak aanvalle
op opponente van die Nasionale Party geloods, en die karikatuurkuns
ten volle bemeester; die veelsydige Honiball het lesers se empatie
gewek met sy speelse styl; en Mouton se uitbeelding van tipies
Suid-Afrikaanse tonele het van hom 'n gewilde humorskepper en
belangrike meningsvormer gemaak. In hierdie boek gee Francois
Verster, Naspers se maatskappy-argivaris, 'n historiese asook
onderhoudende oorsig van die bydrae wat elk van die
spotprenttekenaars gelewer het.
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EmbrYO!
(Paperback)
Bob Joseph; Illustrated by Bart E. Slyp
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Discovery Miles 3 250
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For thirty years, cartoonist Lynn Johnston made daily additions to
what would become a monumental body of work: her newspaper comic
strip, For Better or For Worse. Chronicling the daily lives of the
middle-class suburbanite Patterson family -- Elly and John and
their children, Michael, Elizabeth, and April -- Johnston's strip
was ground-breaking in its adherence to narrative and emotional
realism, and its refusal to engage in melodrama, superpowers, or
anthropomorphic animals. As the syndicated strips appeared in daily
newspapers throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and the first decade of the
2000s, these characters aged with their readers, and their trials
and tribulations were the same as those of their readers: the daily
struggles of work, family, school, and bureaucracy.Wildly funny and
formally innovative, For Better or For Worse: The Comic Art of Lynn
Johnston was published to coincide with an international touring
exhibition of Lynn Johnston's work, organized by the Art Gallery of
Sudbury. The book features some of Johnston's most popular
narratives, interspersed with an essay that chronicles the
development of her drawing, her life, influences both personal and
artistic, and the history of her wildly successful comic strip.
This book also gathers together a generous selection of Lynn
Johnston's daily comic strips and Sunday pages, spanning the lives
of the Patterson family.Whether readers are new to Johnston's work
or old fans returning once again, they'll find this book to be a
rich treasury of For Better or For Worse.
The Steel Claw, Louis Crandell, is assigned by the chief of the
Shadow Squad to protect the four most important nuclear scientists
as they meet for a secret conference. The assignment goes badly
wrong, as the scientists are frozen solid, and their assassin
chooses death over arrest, The Steel Claw must redeem his
reputation and find out who ordered the assassination. This cold
war thriller is pure sixties spy adventure story drawn in a graphic
noir style by Jesus Blasco.
Paul R Goddard, a retired consultant radiologist, has taken a
Swift-like move and penned a slim satirical cartoon book. A former
President of various medical societies including the Radiology
Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Bristol Medico
Chirurgical Society and the MRRA (UK), Professor Goddard is no
stranger to controversy. His witty cartoons will cause much
merriment amongst the workers in the National Elf Service, apart,
perhaps, from some of the less discerning management and political
acolytes (the more discerning will undoubtedly also enjoy the
book!). There is an Elf Service in Cloud Cuckoo Land, a place that
is sometimes known as Faerie and Elfdom. It is strange how the
National Elf Service seems to mirror our own wonderful NHS but is
peculiarly different.....in our system the patients are not cranked
in on a giant conveyor belt such that a new patient arrives even as
the last is leaving the surgery....and there is no huge physical
gulf between the managers and the clinical staff as management try
to pull the doctors over the cliff edge onto the rocks of despair!
(Are you sure? ed.) In Faerie (Cloud Cuckoo Land?) the Right
Horrible Jellybean Shunt is in charge...so different from our own
world but eerily similar. He seems to think that the junior dwarves
(doctors?) can work ten days a week. To find out what happens you
will have to either purchase the book or steal one from some
unsuspecting NHS worker who has placed his copy within easy reach.
This book will make a great present for anyone who works in the
health services... perhaps as a birthday or Christmas gift for a
real worker or as a retirement present for a higher management
acolyte?
WE WANT Comics by Jashorn is a book that bring irreverent humour to
readers: ranging from the sweetest and wittiest scenarios to the
darkest humour that they will likely never forget. These books
explore current affairs, social life, animals and one's existence
as a human being (yes, you're one of them). Featuring over 200
comics in each volume, the books are packed with humour, visual
anecdotes, and dark situations. Readers will laugh, over, and over
again. Jashorn greatly admires the work of Gary Larson, creator of
The Far Side comics.
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