Down East Books
Pages: 128
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Trim: 7 x 8
978-1-60893-965-7 • Paperback • May 2018 • $16.95 • (£12.99)
David Jacobson has had cartoons published in The New Yorker, Down East, and Bangor Daily
News. He is also a professional glass blower and lives in Montville, Maine.
John Klossner’s cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and
Reader’s Digest.
Mike Lynch is a recipient of the Jack Davis Award and has been published in Reader’s Digest,
Playboy, The Wall Street Journal, Golf Digest, Harvard Business Review, The New York Daily
News, and many others. He lives in Milton, New Hampshire, just over the border from Maine.
Jeff Pert was a beloved cartoonist whose work was widely published, including in the Down
East title, How’s the Water, Bob? He passed away in 2013.
Bill Woodman retired to Portland, Maine, where he devotes his energy to painting and
cartooning. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, National Lampoon, Audubon,
The New York Times, and Gourmet.
"I’m not a Mainer, I’m from away. But this truly fabulous book of cartoons makes me seriously consider moving to Maine. I even got a note from the black flies offering to carry my luggage. They seem nice."
--Sandra Boynton, New York Times best-selling author and cartoonist
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"Lobsters are funny looking. This book isn't funny looking. It's only funny."
--Sam Gross, New Yorker cartoonist
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"Are moose funny? They are in the hands of Maine's best cartoonists. You don't have to be a Mainer to love this book--you just have to love cartoons. The work of the great New Yorker cartoonist Bill Woodman is here along with the exceptional cartoon art of Jeff Pert, David Jacobson, Mike Lynch, and John Klossner."--Michael Maslin and Liza Donnelly, New Yorker cartoonists
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"Like camera-wielding tourists in fall, the laughs arrive briskly in this lively book. It's a pleasure to see Maine's finest cartoonists collect their work in one place like this!"--Drew Dernavich, New Yorker and Esquire cartoonist
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