Je suis Charlie cartoon book

Collector's item, solidarity item, cartoon book... In collaboration with THECARTOONIST.be, ShopMyBook was able to publish only a few days after the horrible massacre a tribute cartoon book.

I ordered the print on demand cartoon book and 5 days later it arrived at home...
I want to remind that the slogan of FECO (Federation of Cartoonist Organisations) is "drawing the world together",something nobly positive in our sadly troubled times.

cartoon by EGO

cartoon by DUBUS

cartoon by ANDRE NOLLET

"Following the events in Paris, Shop My Books wants to make a contribution to the victims and their families. This book collects 103 Belgian cartoons about #JeSuisCharlie.

This book was created in collaboration with 53 Belgian cartoonists. We thank all those who have contributed to this great book. All profits will be donated to the victims of the shootings in France.

AAaRGh…, André Nollet, Anne Catherine, Arnulf , Ben, BOB, Canary Pete, Carré, Cartoni, Cécile Bertrand, Clou, COPpieters, Cost, duBus, Ego, Emiel De Bolle, FOBIE, Gal, Haidari Natalija, Ilah, JacPé, JAMES, Jb, JOHAN DE MOOR, KANAR, Karl Meersman, Kim, Lejeune, Lejon, Libin Ronald, MadMan, MAREC, Martin Saive, Mercedes, Norbert Van Yperzeele, O-SEKOER, Quatsch, QUIRIT, Rafagé, R L Oppenheimer, SAIVE, Salemi, SAMUEL, Sondron, Sophie Dupont, STEVE, Tom, Vadot, Vanmol, Vejo, Vince, FRANx, Zaza"

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Pardon - die deutsche satirische Monatsschrift

Searching for Kurt Halbritter on eBay I came into this German satiric magazine. Because it's from 1966, my year of birth, I was intererested and did a bid.

Pardon was a German-language literary and satirical magazine, published from 1962 to 1982. Trademark of Pardon was a devil that lifts up his bowler hat.  Learn more on Wikipedia Germany.

the olympic games in München were in 1972

no Photoshop yet...

Kurt Halbritter

cartoon

And if you like cars, here are some advertisements for BMW, Audi and even for the 2CV by Citroën:

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Kurt Halbritter

Pardon satiric magazine

Pardon and pardon covers on eBay.de

Catalogue Knokke Heist 2013

Take a good look at this year's catalogue and you'll notice why this is a kind of special edition...

I think the (desktop) publisher did his work on a monday morning after a wild weekend... and nobody saw his mistake untill the catalogue was printed.

If it was a stamp, this catalogue would make a fortune.

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Cartoonfestival Knokke-Heist.be

The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker speakers

I've seen many cartoon books in many forms, colors and weights, but what I last saw on a web page was quite amazing. You can do many things with (cartoon) books, but this one is very creative.
Making a cool bookshelf speaker out of a cartoon book.

The Complete Cartoons om The New Yorker is a big and heavy book indeed and for that reason suitable for the job, but I'll keep my copy as it is.

"More than a book, this is a bona fide publishing event. The largest-ever collection of "New Yorker" cartoons features the best of every decade in book form, plus two easy-to-browse CDs--Windows and Macintosh compatible--with every cartoon ever published in the magazine--more than 68,000 of themSince its founding in the 1920s, "The New Yorker" has had a profound cultural impact on the country and the world, and has almost singlehandedly elevated the cartoon to an art form. For the first time ever, EVERY cartoon ever published in "The New Yorker" is collected in one place. Accompanying the cartoons in the book, several thousand of them organized chronologically, are essays by eminent "New Yorker" writers reflecting on the life and times (and sense of humor) of each successive decade. Additionally, each decade includes profiles and mini-portfolios of the cartoonists who made their marks on the era, from Peter Arno and Charles Addams to Bruce Eric Kaplan and Roz Chast. "Theme" features cover such subjects as Drinking, The Depression, and Politics.The two accompanying CDs feature every cartoon ever published in the magazine in a format that is accessible on any home computer and is browsable by date, cartoonist, subject, and more. This groundbreaking book, several years in the making, has been lovingly compiled by current "New Yorker" cartoon editor (and respected cartoonist and author) Robert Mankoff, and the foreword is by David Remnick, the magazine's esteemed editor." (source: goodreads.com)

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review on iPhone Savior
review of the book by Jutta Degeger

more New Yorker cartoon links on our blog

Bullets and Billets

A few weeks ago I bought the autobiographical book Bullets and Billets (Bruce Bairnsfather, 1916) on the annual WWI and WWII military book fair in Passchendaele (Belgium). In this book Bairsfather tells about his experiences in the trenches around Plugstreet and Ypres (Belgium), places only about 15 miles away from where I live.

In 2014 there will be a WWI cartoon exhibition in the ECC: I will be prepared...

You can find out more about Bruce Bairsfather in previous posts on our blog.

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Free online download and e-book (Gutenberg Project)

UK Political Cartoon - www.politicalcartoons.co.uk

Dr. Timothy Benson informed me about the renewed website of the UK Political Cartoon Society.
The site looks great and I'm fond of the Cartoon Books section. I'm  feelling like a kid in a candy shop when I'm seeing all those nice cartoon books!

On the site you can admire and buy new and used cartoon books. Some are rare to find. Here are some examples of books (I own) you can buy on the site:

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The Political Cartoon Society

Parodies and pastiches

I really enjoyed this book. It's in the collection of the ECC library. Parodies & Pastiches aus der Sammlung Karikaturen & Cartoons Basel by Jürg Spahr (Basel, 1991, ISBN 3-856-16-043-4). Many cartoons are a parody and sometimes a pastiche, and in fact, that's what's cartooning is about. The book is a fine collection of parodies and  pastiches. It is published as a hommage by the Christoph Merian Stiftung to the founder of the caricature and cartoon collection in Basel (Swiss), Dieter Burckhardt (1914-1991).

What's the difference between a parody and a pastiche? Here are the definitions I found:


A parody is a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing.
It's also the genre of literary composition represented by such imitations.
A bit broader, it's any humorous, satirical, or burlesque imitation, as of a person, event, etc.

A pastiche is a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.Also, it is an incongruous combination of materials, forms, motifs, etc., taken from different sources; hodgepodge.
(source: dictionary.com)

Martial Leiter and Jean-Jacques Loup "Frankensteins dreams"

Arnold Roth - "I'm going to call it 'Oops' "

Wolf Barth - Loakoon - Feuerwehr

Jerzy Flisak  and GIN

Feggo - Mondrian's road sign

Napoleon, after J.L. David - Gradimir Smudja

Mondrians Palette and Begegnung mit Paul Klee, - Caulos

Pointillism parodie - Sergey Tunin

Vincent van Gogh  at the hairdresser

Venus von Milo - Jugoslav Vlahovic

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Cartoonmuseum Basel

Cartoon Treasury – Knaurs Lachende Welt

The original American edition ‘Cartoon Treasury’ of this book dates from 1955 and I think the German edition I own dates from that year too.
320 pages with 800  ‘modern’ cartoons. The biggest international collection  of drawn jokes by artist from Japan, America, Brasil, Germany, France and 25 other countries.
This books let us have a glance at the most popular and funny cartoon humour of more than half a century ago.

Do you recognise the cartoons of Chaval, Bosc, Sempé, Hoffnung,  Emett, Giles, Searle, Tetsu, Fischer ?

cover an back cover

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With a bit of luck you can find an buy a copy of this book on the internet.