An illustrated memoir by rewned New Yorker cartoonist Bruce Eric Kaplan. If The Little Prince had crash-landed, instead of in the Sahara, into a middle-class Jewish home in Maplewood, N.J. in the late 1960s, it might feel something like I Was a Child. --The Hollywood Reporter Bruce Eric Kaplan, also kwn as BEK, is one of the most celebrated and admired cartoonists in America. I Was a Child is the story of his childhood in suburban New Jersey, detailing the small moments we all experience: going to school, playing with friends, family dinners, watching TV on a hot summer night, and so on. It would seem like a conventional childhood, although Kaplan's anecdotes are accompanied by his signature drawings of family outings and life at home-road trips, milk crates, hamsters, ashtrays, a toupee, a platypus, and much more. Kaplan's cartoons, although simple, are never straightforward; they encompass an easy irony and dark humor that often cuts straight to the truth of experience. Brilliantly relatable and genuinely moving, I Was a Child is about our attempts to understand the mysteries that are our parents, our families, and ourselves.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
ISBN-10
0399169512
ISBN-13
9780399169519
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209374837
Product Key Features
Author
Bruce Eric Kaplan
Format
Sewn,Cloth over Boards, Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Autobiography: General
Additional Product Features
Content Note
Illustrations
Author Biography
BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN, also known as BEK, is an American artist whose single-panel cartoons frequently appear in The New Yorker. He also has a whole other life as a television writer and producer, currently for HBO's Girls.
Out-Of-Print Date
27/04/2017
Date of Publication
14/04/2015
Country of Publication
United States
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