Pat Byrnes
Autor(a) de What Would Satan Do?: Cartoons About Right, Wrong, and Very, Very Wrong
About the Author
Pat Byrnes received an undergraduate degree in Aerospace at the University of Notre Dame in 1981. He joined General Dynamics-Convair as the first pre-design engineer they had ever taken directly out of college. After he left that job, he wrote ad copy for agencies like W. B. Doner in Detroit and J. mostrar mais Walter Thompson in Chicago. He won numerous awards for his work including the Addy and the Clio. In 1991, he left copywriting for voiceover acting and started drawing cartoons. Since 1998, he has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker. His cartoons also appear in Reader's Digest, Wall Street Journal and America Magazine. For three years, he created the syndicated comic strip, Monkeyhouse. In 2002, he won the National Cartoonists Society Award for advertising illustration. His gag cartoons appeared in book form in What Would Satan Do? and Because I'm the Child Here and I Said So. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras por Pat Byrnes
Associated Works
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (2003) — Ilustrador, algumas edições — 15,641 exemplares
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Captain Dad: The Manly Art Of Stay-At-Home Parenting por Pat Byrnes
Funny and informative without being preachy. I would consider giving this as a gift to new parents. I liked the cartoons too.
A good blog-turned-book that is a fun read but it didn't tell me anything I didn't already know.
As it says in the introduction, A compass that always points south can help you find your way as surely as one that always points the other way. Likewise, a moral compass that always points to the wrong pole can be just as useful. If you know what would absolutely be wrong, then you know that you should absolutely search in the other direction.
This is an excellent beginning - or mood lifting mini-map - for the search. Byrnes hits on some particularly modern blind spots and failings. He's most effective when tweaking common statements, attenuating them, or adding the unexpected to his tag. (Not to scandalize Emily Dickinson - but coming at his intended truth, slant-wise.) Some captions hit so near the bone they miss the wincing graze of satire and merely puncture. Yet there's a great deal of wry and scathing wit, here. Humor, with a salutary edge. And much moral rightness, in pointing to what's wrong.… (mais)
This is an excellent beginning - or mood lifting mini-map - for the search. Byrnes hits on some particularly modern blind spots and failings. He's most effective when tweaking common statements, attenuating them, or adding the unexpected to his tag. (Not to scandalize Emily Dickinson - but coming at his intended truth, slant-wise.) Some captions hit so near the bone they miss the wincing graze of satire and merely puncture. Yet there's a great deal of wry and scathing wit, here. Humor, with a salutary edge. And much moral rightness, in pointing to what's wrong.… (mais)
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Eurydice | Apr 1, 2007 | Estatísticas
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