"This is the only book that tells you what to really expect when you're expecting. It helps you visualize all the inevitable moments of anxiety, discomfort, embarrassment, and joy you'll experience during pregnancy and childbirth. And it'll make you laugh!" -- Page [4] cover.

In this generous collection of more than 150 cartoons, Nick Downes's Charles Addams-like mordant wit captures the foibles of science, medicine, technology, the environment, human nature, and dogs. Humor buffs will shout "Eureka!" when they discover the talents of one of the best new cartoonists to come on the scene.

Excerpts from comic strip Cathy.

MAD magazine illustrator Tom Richmond teaches how to draw caricatures, with an emphasis on aspects of the head and face.

Master the fine art of drawing parodies, including poses and expressions. Amusing, rewarding, and fun, caricaturing is an art form with a difference. In 'How to Draw Caricatures', professional caricaturist Martin Pope guides you through the stages of creating a successful caricature, from pinpointing your subject's unique features to choosing the best materials and drawing from life. Learn how to do the following and so much more: capture the right...

"Before Charles Johnson found fame as a novelist and won the National Book Award for Middle Passage in 1991, he was a cartoonist, and a very good one. Taught via correspondence course by the comics editor Lawrence Lariar, mentored by the New Yorker cartoonist Charles Barsotti, and inspired by the call of the poet Amiri Baraka to celebrate and depict Black life in America, Johnson crafted some of the fiercest and funniest cartoons of the twentieth...