CAPTION: And no one ever heard from the Anderson brothers again.
Credit: The Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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CAPTION: “I wasn’t texting. I was building this ship in a bottle.”
CREDIT: New Yorker cartoon by Robert Leighton, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CREDIT: New Yorker cartoon by Bob Mankoff, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CAPTION: “I really don’t have any special requests. I just wanted to write about the experience.”
Credit: New Yorker cartoon by Donald Reilly
“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.” ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Cartoon: Harley L. Schwadron, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Snoopy’s Guide to the Writing Life featues humor, writing advice, plus the incomparable Monsieur Snoopy in his atelier (i.e., doghouse roof) writing about dark and stormy nights.
Book summary from Library Journal: Using the many Snoopy “at the typewriter” strips as jumping-off points, 30 famous writers as disparate as Ray Bradbury, Elmore Leonard, Budd Shulberg, Dominick Dunne, Danielle Steele, and Sue Grafton contribute pep talks, amusing anecdotes, or useful advice to would-be writers based on their own experiences. Witty and charming, the essays offer much creative and practical wisdom. But the highlight of the book is the touching foreword by Charles Schulz’s son, Monte, who offers some striking insights into his father’s life, giving the reader a glimpse of the legendary cartoonist as a reader as well as a writer.
Snoopy’s Guide to the Writing Life is out of print, but copies are available at libraries — and used paperback editions are available at a reasonable prices (starting at around $5.00) on Amazon.com.
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” STEPHEN KING
Illustration: New Yorker cartoon by Charles Barsotti, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CAPTION: “We want to do the whole Jack Kerouac-‘On The Road‘ thing, only with B&B.s.”
CREDIT: New Yorker cartoon by Barbara Smaller, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Prints available at condenaststore.com.
CAPTION: “I wasn’t texting. I was building this ship in a bottle.”
CREDIT: New Yorker cartoon by Robert Leighton, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CREDIT: New Yorker cartoon by Leo Cullum, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Prints available at condenaststore.com.
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