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cartoon of the word vol. 1 now in full color -
only $12
102 pages, full color,
paperback
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purchase below($12)
note: preview is somewhat low
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UPDATE: Following the successful Kickstarter
campaign, cartoon of the word vol. 1 is now available for purchase. We
currently have about 100 color copies, and we want to sell them to you at the
low, low price of $12 plus shipping. That's the same price as the previous
black and white version, and not only is it in color, but numerous typos and
other errors have been corrected. Note to previous buyers - you now
own a collector's edition!
Note: if you don't trust US, cartoon of the word
vol. 1 is also available at
amazon.com.
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Bookstores: for
trade and volume discounts, please contact
sales@mightyoctothorpe.com
These cartoons were originally published right
here on the “Cartoon of the Word of the Day” website between December
8, 2010, when the website launched, and October 15, 2011. During this period,
John Ambrosavage has responded every day, without fail, to the Word of the Day
posted on their website by Merriam-Webster with a cartoon. As I write this,
there have been 483 cartoons drawn and posted. More, by the time you read this.
Sometimes, this isn’t exactly easy. You never know where M-W is going to
go with these. On more that one occassion, John has called and said “This
is the one, Spud. I got nuttin’. This is the one that’s going to
break the streak”, only to turn out the best cartoon of the week.
As you know, many of these were originally animated. This made the
compilation of a book somewhat tricky. Unlike a traditional newspaper
cartoonist, John isn’t limited to a fixed number of frames. In fact, all
of these cartoons originally appeared in a single space. There are frames, but
they are frames of animation, and not frames on the page. Therefore, we had to
pull the cartoons apart to put them in a book. Although we tried to use the
best cartoons, sometimes it came down to space. There are cartoons on the
website with almost a hundred frames, because there is a lot of action going
on. These wouldn’t translate well to print, because you don’t see the
action, so we left those out. In the end, we selected those cartoons that would
fit a single frame, four frames, or eight frames, in order to make the most
effective use of the book format. We put numbers next to the frames so that you
can more easily follow the flow.
Next, we turned to organization. Although the cartoons
originally appeared in random order, in response the the Merriam-Webster Word
of the Day, certain themes have appeared over the ensuing ten or eleven months
since John begain. Among our favorite repeating gags are the daily specials
that the guy in the bar and grill is always inquiring about, the witticisms of
the condemned man as he approaches the noose, the insults hurled at each other
by tex and old red, and of course, the inevitable meta cartoons featuring John
and I “Down at Cartoon of the Word HQ”, which are closer to the truth
than you will ever know. Starting with these, we grouped the cartoons into
rough categories, and tried to provide a sampling of each. Doctors, Lawyers,
Mobsters, Priests, and Chickens crop up frequently, for some reason, and are
all well represented here, as well as scenes from the office, the home, and
nature.
Fortunately, Merriam Webster doesn’t seem to be running
out of words, and John hasn’t run into a blank wall yet. Once you’ve
drawn up “contumacious”, it’s all downhill from there.
Ray C. Freeman III, Cartoon of the Word editor
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