Título: How About Never--Is Never Good for You?
Autor: Bob Mankoff
Sinopse: Memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of The New Yorker People tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that because he is also a cartoonist at the magazine he actually has two of the best jobs in the world. With the help of myriad images and his funniest, most beloved cartoons, he traces his love of the craft all the way back to his childhood, when he started doing funny drawings at the age of eight. After meeting his mother, we follow his unlikely stints as a high-school basketball star, draft dodger, and sociology grad student. Though Mankoff abandoned the study of psychology in the seventies to become a cartoonist, he recently realized that the field he abandoned could help him better understand the field he was in, and here he takes up the psychology of cartooning, analyzing why some cartoons make us laugh and others don't. He allows us into the hallowed halls of The New Yorker to show us the soup-to-nuts process of cartoon creation, giving us a detailed look not only at his own work, but that of the other talented cartoonists who keep us laughing week after week. For desert, he reveals the secrets to winning the magazine's caption contest. Throughout How About Never--Is Never Good for You?, we see his commitment to the motto "Anything worth saying is worth saying funny."
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “How About Never–Is Never Good for You?”, de Bob Mankoff, publicado pela editora Henry Holt and Company, em 2014 e com 304 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Henry Holt and Company
Páginas: 304
Ano: 2014
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Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN:
ISBN13: 9780805095913
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Henry Holt and Company oferecem uma experiência de leitura marcada pela diversidade temática e narrativa. É comum encontrar obras que transitam entre relatos históricos detalhados e ficções com forte carga emocional e psicológica. O catálogo apresenta desde narrativas densas sobre eventos históricos de impacto mundial até histórias pessoais que exploram relações familiares e dilemas íntimos. O tom varia entre o envolvente e o reflexivo, com ritmo que ora privilegia a tensão de thrillers históricos, ora a introspecção de memórias e ensaios. A linguagem é acessível, mas sem abrir mão da profundidade, alcançando leitores que buscam tanto informação quanto emoção.
