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The Best in Swimwear Design (The Best in Design)
Joy McKenzie
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wonderfull book.......2000-08-23
This is a wonderfull book with lots of pictures of beautiful models
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The latest volume of the Modern Masters series looks at the life and work of one of today's top comic-book artists, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez. Ask any comic book artist who the best draftsman in the business is, and you'll come up with one answer: Garcia-Lopez. A master of anatomy, composition, and storytelling, he not only astounds his readers, but his peers as well. He is also one of the most visible artists in the industry, as his illustrations can be seen on toy packaging, in DC's "Got Milk?" advertisements, and even on jars of peanut butter. But it's his work on DC's Big Three (Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman) that earned Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez the title of Modern Master.
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Interesting Stuff.......2007-09-06
Historically this artist is a very relevant player in the graphic novel and comic book world. An excellent artist.
One of my Top 3 favorites in the series..........2007-05-06
What a great surprise this artist is for me! Being predominantly a Marvel fan, there are a number of great DC-exclusive artists over the years that I've had very little exposure to. In this case, I bought this interview on the strength of the brilliant cover art alone. I'm happy to say the interior work is every bit as good. Unlike my other 2 favorites in the series, this interview includes some color work along with the many pieces of black & white artwork sprinkled throughout. Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez is highly praised with reason: just check out the picture of Superman & Lois flying high over a cityscape complete with rainbow (p.117) to see what I mean. Truly fantastic pencils throughout!
My other current favorites in the series include Modern Masters, Vol. 7: John Byrne (Modern Masters), and Modern Masters Volume 2: George Perez. Yet they keep on releasing great interviews!
Finally!.......2007-02-06
Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez is one of comics most under-rated artists. His art is beautiful, graceful and powerful without losing the clear storytelling that makes a good artist great. Just ask almost anyone in the business, Garcia-Lopez is a class act and the only thing wrong with this book is it could be longer, packed with even more art.
Eric Nolen-Weathington has made a great career of insightful interviews with his Modern Masters series, and I'd recommend, even if your not a big fan of the artist, Eric always brings out a side you'd never suspect. He does his homework and lets the artists speak, Nice job.
BRILLIANT & UNDERRATED ARTIST.......2005-09-26
I guess the two words that come to mind when I think about comic book artist Jose Luis Garcia Lopez are consistent and underrated. Those two words seem to best describe the career of a man who rarely has gotten the accolades he deserves as one of the great artists of the last 25 years. After reading the lengthy interview with him in this volume five of the Modern Masters series from TwoMorrows Publishing, certainly Jose's humble and quiet nature seems to be one of the reasons he is so underrated. He's clearly a guy who isn't looking for the spotlight. He hasn't tried to match the younger artists of the day by doing books filled with nothing but splash pages and poor anatomy. He's just been content to be a dependent workhorse for DC comics. While Jose may not have achieved the level of stardom that other artists have, you get the feeling that it really doesn't matter to him. There's a lot of laughter throughout the interview and Jose seems very happy with his career.
Jose was born in Spain but moved to Argentina with his family when he was very young. He would get his America comic book start with Charlton on mainly romance titles. Jose's many eclectic influences are certainly a factor behind his level of professionalism. From old masters Alex Raymond and Hal Foster, to modern artists like Moebius and Ross Andru, and to great illustrators like Norman Rockwell, Jose relates just how each of these men as influenced his work through the years.
Jose would start at DC in the late 1970's and worked on a variety of projects. Jose did much of the art for DC's merchandising and marketing campaigns including their "Got Milk?" ad featuring Superman. Jose was also the artist who worked on DC's first graphic novel Star Raiders. Interviewer Eric Nolen-Weathington does a wonderful job covering Jose's very diverse career in comics, even getting into the mediums in which Jose likes to work in and his preferred types of tools which is invaluable advice for aspiring comic artists. My personal favorite was the work he did on the Deadman limited series and kudos to TwoMorrows for reprinting some of the work inside this book.
The interview runs through the first three-quarters of the book. The last part is dedicated to a Jose Luis Garcia Lopez art gallery displaying numerous sketches, finished works, covers, and pages from throughout his distinguished career. There's a fantastic drawing of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark sitting on Santa's lap, sketches and color guides from the Cinder & Ashe limited series and two brilliant illustrations, one featuring Wonder Woman and another with Superman and Lois Lane.
Hats off to TwoMorrows Publishing for aiming the spotlight on this humble, under-appreciated talent!
Reviewed by Tim Janson
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From the wonderful golf cartoons published over the decades in "The New Yorker," cartoon editor Mankoff has culled the best for this book from the magazine's amazing artists.
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The Perfect Gift!!!.......2006-11-05
I searched and searched for a present for my golf-mad boyfriend, and this was by far the best golf book I could have bought him. Even I enjoy and can relate to the cartoons, fantastic buy and sits proudly on his bookshelf.
Excellent Humor about "Course" and "Off-Course" Moments.......2004-04-12
This book only lacks a knowledgeable introduction by a humorist, top golfer or pro, or cartoonist to make it a five-star offering.
To me, the best humor is one that captures the reality of how the viewer perceives life. In the case of The New Yorker Book of Golf Cartoons, every golfer will recognize her- or himself . . . and members of past foursomes.
Unlike most sports cartoons, these wonderful offerings provide both female and male perspectives as players. There's still the battle of the sexes around the missing male golfer, but not all cartoons are sex stereotyped . . . which I liked.
Here are a few of my favorites:
One guru with a long beard to another in front of cave overlooking a canyon as the second guru tees off: "If you're so enlightened, how come you can't lick that slice?" This reminded me of the section about Deepak Chopra in Who's Your Caddy?
With a tree lying between the ball and the pin, the caddy hands a saw to the golfer.
"The Male Biological Clock" shows a golfer thinking: "If I don't learn how to play golf by the time I'm forty-three, I'll never learn."
A golfer is thrashing behind a bush and birds and animals run pell-mell away from him.
"I am the Lady of the Lake, and because thou hast defiled my crystal waters I must hence smite thee. That or penalize thee a stroke. Your call." As you can imagine, most golfers would avoid the one stroke penalty.
Man races out the door carrying clubs says to wife, "Gotta run, sweetheart. By the way, that was one fabulous job you did raising the children."
A woman stands on a widow's walk atop her roof looking through a telescope towards a golf course.
One golfer to another as the second one takes his ball out of the cup, "Bankruptcy doesn't seem to have hurt your putting eye a bit, Pete."
One golfer to another as the second one wrestles with an alligator in a swamp, "Oh, for goodness' sake, forget it, Beasley. Play another one."
A man holds clubs next to a woman who's just finished her swing. The ball drops into the cup after two bounces. She asks, "Like so?" This reminded me of the time I took my mother to play golf for the first time, and she beat me on almost every hole after the first four. She quit the game in disgust that day, complaining that it was just too easy to be interesting.
Two golfers are thrashing through the high grass beyond the green looking for a lost ball. One turns to the other and says, "You know something, Jeff. There is one place we haven't looked." That's exactly what happened to me when I hit my hole-in-one to a blind green.
I could go on, but won't so that you'll have something to look forward to (other than your next round of golf). You can see that the cartoonists have a great sense of the game . . . that can only come from having struggled out on the links themselves.
This book will be a great gift for a parent who is a golfer for either Mother's Day or Father's Day.
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Amusing Perspectives on Both Golfing and Flogging.......2004-04-04
At least to me, reviewing an anthology of cartoons resembles reviewing a performance by Marcel Marceau. Just as you really had to be there to see the performance to appreciate his talent, you really have to see the cartoons to appreciate their creators' talent. So, what to say now? First, that I am avid golfer and thus have a special interest in this volume, one of several in a series. Also, I am a long-time subscriber to The New Yorker and had already seen most of Robert Mankoff's selections as editor. I just wish I had aged as well as they have. Finally, if you love both golf (which is "flog" spelled backwards) and a good laugh, and no one else has as yet purchased The New Yorker Book of Golf Cartoons for you, don't begin dropping hints resembling anvils and then eagerly await the next birthday, anniversary, or holiday. Treat yourself to a copy TODAY. Amazon enables you to check out several of Robert Mankoff's selections as editor. Meanwhile, here's an excerpt from the dust jacket: "Mark Twain called it 'a good walk spoiled.' Lee Trevino said it was the most fun he ever had with his clothes on. For duffers and pros alike, golf can be both a delight and a torment -- often on the same day, sometimes on the same hole." Been there, done that. And, alas, will no doubt do so again...and again...and again. Fellow duffers, however badly you may play, you can count on this volume to entertain you later...and thereby help you to have the right perspective when you golf and/or flog your way through the next round.
The perfect, brainy "no-brainer" gift for golfers........2002-05-25
Golfers are, almost without exception, fanatical and this book hilariously captures all the elements of the game - the joys and frustrations, the golfers and the golf widows, the pros and the duffers.
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As one of the oldest and most beloved sports of all time, golf has been parodied, satirized, and spoofed more than any other sport. It has been particularly popular within the world of cartoons and comic strips-from Beetle Bailey to B.C. to Peanuts, the sport of golf appears in thousands of Sunday funnies around the world. Golf in the Comic Strips features a collection of some of the foremost cartoonists as they capture the putts, drives, holes in one, bogeys, and birdies that illustrate the mysterious and rewarding allure of golf. From his collection of more than 4,000 cartoons and comic strips on golf, Howard Ziehm shares over 200 full-color, rare, and historic comic strips from more than 100 artists, including Clare Briggs (A Piker's Clerk), Sidney Smith (The Gumps), Charles Schulz (Peanuts), Johnny Hart (B.C.), and Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey). Howard Ziehm shares insightful comments about the artists, the historical period of each strip, stylistic innovations and milestones, and artist-related information that offer a sense of what golf and the world was like in each era. Golf in the Comic Strips is an essential addition to the libraries of all golf lovers and cartoon fans. Howard Ziehm is the writer and creator of a self-help, vocabulary-expansion series, including Wordbank (Simon and Schuster), and Wordbuilders (Bantam Dell). Currently, this nine handicapper operates several entertainment ventures, including Golftoons, a golf entertainment company, and resides in Malibu, California.
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Suggest buying earlier edition.......2005-03-03
I suggest you buy an earlier edition as the image quality of the reprints, particularly the very old strips, are much better.
This edition contains no new infomation or comic strips.
The earlier editons can be bought used at Amazon.com
Never the less, both editions are excellent with regard to the strips shown and the commentary involved in both describing the strips and the game of golf.
They range from familar to unfamilar comics from the 1890's to present.
A book both tailored to comic strip fans and golfers.
I personally learned a good deal of history about golf and those who play it by reading such strips
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ASIN: 0761123709 |
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One of the funniest books ever published on its subject Golfing, is back. And better than ever.
Now an avid golfer, Henry Beard brings the same passion for improvement to writing about golf as he does to playing it, and he's both added new definitions and rewritten many others. Like Whiff - "Familiar term widely misused to describe particularly fast and powerful style of practice swing intentionally made directly over the ball."
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Golfing.......2006-03-21
This is a hilarious little book of spoof golfing definitions written by golfers for golfers. It captures the disappointments and frustrations that all golfers know so well. Keep it as a reference guide!
If you are a golfer...good or bad.......2002-02-07
If you are a golfer,, good or bad. This is a great book for you. Also give it as a gift to the golfer you know. It will cause you to laugh out loud, and you will see yourself and so many others within the pages. It`s just for fun, but packed with true-isms, and half true-isms! Good to pull out on those rainy days, while waiting at the 19th hole, or at golf parties !!!!
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Even the most golf-obsessed must admit it: Swatting that tiny dimpled ball around meticulously manicured landscaping makes for one hilarious game. For everyone who appreciates that humor-and especially for those too serious about golf to crack a smile-Dibs on His Clubs! lights up the lighter side of this sport enjoyed by millions.Dibs on His Clubs! is AMP's first book with Steve Moore, the cartoonist and creative genius behind the In the Bleachers daily panel, now syndicated to more than 200 newspapers throughout the U.S. Steve narrows his normal general sports focus to golf, a game that captivates everyone from avid amateurs to those who enjoy watching multimillionaire athletes at work. Steve brings his trademark wacky characters and outrageous situation comedy to every frame of this golf-guffawing collection. Dibs on His Clubs! comes richly illustrated in Moore's sparse but dead-on drawing style. His paunchy duffers are delightful. His players' expressions are outrageous. And no other cartoonist working today finds more ways to inject the timely and the totally-off-the-wall aspects of sports into his work. This book's a humor hole in one for everyone who ever picked up a club, wondered what gift to buy the golfer who already has everything, or who simply appreciates seeing a great comedic mind at the top of his game.
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Danny Gets to Grips with Golf (Danny Gets to Grips With...)
Danny Byrne , and
Alex Hay
Manufacturer: DC Publishing
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Drawn to Golf
Roger Schillerstrom
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ASIN: 1932202161 |
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Roger Schillerstrom’s
Drawn to Golf is a different "look" at the game we love. For almost 20 years, Roger Schillerstrom has been providing editorial cartoons to several of the most respected and well-read publications produced by Crain Communications. In 1995, Golfweek magazine (another Crain product) asked Schillerstrom to turn his creative eye toward the game of golf and create cartoons to complement its weekly "commentary" pages. The pairing was an immediate success and it continues to this day.
Drawn to Golf is a carefully selected collection of the most clever and insightful cartoons that Roger has produced for Golfweek over the past eight years. Few, if any, of golf’s most controversial, comical, or sad moments have been overlooked. From the stunning emergence of possibly the greatest player ever – Tiger Woods – to the tragic loss of fan-favorite Payne Stewart. From Jean Van de Velde’s collapse at Carnoustie, to David Duval’s breakthrough at the British Open. And from hot balls heading down the fairway, to hot tempers at the Solheim Cup.
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Pure Entertainment.......2004-11-17
This book is great even for people that don't really enjoy golf. To get all of Schillerstrom's comics in one book is like a dream for me, since that was the most exciting part about reading Golfweek.
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An Educated Slice
Charles M. Schulz
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Hilarious testament to golf antics. Bully for you if you buy this book.-- Peter Dobereiner. Cartoons throughout.
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Golf Uncovered
Peter Alliss
Manufacturer: Andre Deutsch
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ASIN: 0233997504 |
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Never again will a round of golf or a bucket of balls on the range be the same; every air shot, three putt, draw, fade, and skied drive will force a smile. The inimitable Peter Alliss and illustrator/cartoonist Martin Haydon (Edd) team up to give a unique and humorously incisive look at this compulsively addictive game of "nearlys," "almosts," and "maybes."
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