Know your cat's purr points

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B. Kliban

This is a illustrated humor book, with the them of cats in each cartoon. There are 150 illustrations with some having captions or word balloons and others that are just site jokes. It's humor is a mixture of The Far Side', and Garfield having been written three years before Garfield, and five years before Far Side. It's art varies with each drawing, from caricature outlined cats to realistic cats. Although the author is listed as B. Kliban some of the drawings are signed "Burton Rustle," and "Nort", who are along with others, in the dedication page mentioned as being "formerly unrelated but now family." Some of the illustrations are such as; A cat getting it's paw prints taken at the police station; A cat with lowered eyebrows walking by a picture of Mickey Mouse; A artist painting with a cat on his lap, drawing a woman, and the cat on his lap is painting the cat on the woman's lap.

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Hugh Kenner

Creator of the monomaniacal Wile E. Coyote and his endlessly elusive prey, the Road Runner, Chuck Jones has been responsible for many classics of animation featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd. Hugh Kenner, master wordsmith and technophile, reveals in cartoon-like sequences the irrepressible humor and profound reflection that shape Chuck Jones's work. Kenner also x-rays the inner world of cartooning, from its beginnings as a technological innovation, through its heyday as six-minute full-animation shorts for the movies, to its eventual shift to television, where Jones animated features such as The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and Rikki Tikki Tavi. Unlike Walt Disney, Chuck Jones and his fellow animators at Warner Bros. were not interested in cartoons that mimicked reality. Instead, they pursued the reality of the imagination, the Toon world where believability is more important than realism and where movement is the ultimate aesthetic arbiter. By describing the erudition and kinetic humor in great works like What's Opera, Doc? and Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 century, Hugh Kenner offers a new understanding not only of cartooning culture but also of art's relationship to technology, criticism, freedom, and imagination.

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E.R. Beachy

Both storytelling and the Amish are deeply rooted in America. In a world without television or video games, in a world where men gather at the general store and neighbors visit on farmhouse porches, storytelling is an art. Out of this tradition come these amusing tales, enjoyed by many who just happen to go to church in a buggy.Welcome to the life of the Amish....and the humanity we all share.

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text and photographs by Bruce Hucko

Art is a rich and ancient tradition among the Tewa Pueblo Indians of northern New Mexico, going back to the pictures their ancestors carved and painted on stone across the Southwest. Today Pueblo art is created in an environment in which traditional forms overlap with modern media. Nowhere is this fusion more evident than in the art of Pueblo children. In Where There Is No Name for Art, photographer and "art coach" Bruce Hucko introduces us to some of his Tewa Pueblo. Students through their drawings, paintings, and words and through his photographs of them at work and at play. These children straddle two worlds. They participate in traditional dances and play video games. They paint airplanes and horses, basketball stars and sacred kivas. They also do their homework, help with the chores, and listen to rap music. The children's vibrant, imaginative artwork is complemented by their humorous and thoughtful commentary on living in a. Changing culture. Presenting an insider's view of what it means to be growing up Pueblo today, the children talk about their families and their communities, share their feelings about their culture, and discuss the process of making art.