This book is a collection of comics from New Yorker cartoonist Kate Beaton. These are cartoons that appeared on her web comic site. The comics are historical or literary in nature. Most are amusing, some very funny, others not so much. Beaton's commentary on some of the comics is often funnier than the strip itself. My favorites are the "guess the story by the book's cover" series of Edward Gorey covers and especially the Nancy Drew covers. (I must check if we have The Password to Larkspur Lane at UCPL.) I had trouble getting into this book when I first picked it up. On my second attempt I read it straight through.
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