Because I’m the Child Here and I Said So

This makes the perfect baby shower gift, since it’s all cartoons about parenting. Many are from The New Yorker, Reader’s Digest and America, but a lot are just for the book.

I drew 95% of the artwork with my first baby slung around my neck and my finger in her mouth as a pacifier. True story. I only had a few months’ Captain Dad experience by that time, but I had conceived the book as a guide for how I hoped to handle the job. I still use it that way. If I find that I’m doing anything that reminds me of any of the cartoons, I tell myself, “Stop doing that!” Shame is a powerful tool. Don’t be afraid to use it — even on yourself.

Find the book at amazon.com, both in its original paperback version and in its nifty new Kindle version.

Dave Barry on Dads

Why am I flogging a Dave Barry book? Especially a little gift book barely two inches by two inches in size? Because I did the illustrations, that’s why. And it’s about dad stuff. And it’s Dave Barry, which is fun in its own right.

You can find it at Amazon.com.

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I’ve also worked on some non-dadly books. Check these out too!

What Would Satan Do? Cartoons about right, wrong, and very, very wrong

This book contains many of my cartoons fromThe New Yorker, America Magazine and others, plus a bunch found nowhere else. It came out in October of 2005, but it’s often still available at at amazon.com, where it has a 5-star rating — and not just out of one or two reviews either.

It’s “Hell-arious” — Entertainment Weekly

Eats, Shoots & Leaves — Illustrated Edition
by Lynne Truss

You may have a copy of this bestseller from a couple years ago, but it is so much better with pictures, don’t you think?

But don’t take my word for it, see Entertainment Weekly’s Holiday Gift Guide.

 

 

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The Rejection Collection &
The Rejection Collection II—Cream of the Crap
— edited by Matt Diffee