Taking a Stantis

By Scott Stantis

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575710080
• ISBN13: 9781575710082
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Birmingham News Co
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Good cartoon collection

This is a book collection of editorial cartoons drawn by conservative Scott Stantis (who also draws a politically-oriented "Prickly City" comic-strip for Universal Press). This book has three sections: Pages 4 and 5 is an "introduction" drawn by Scott about how he became a cartoonist. Pages 6 to 135 is national politics according to Scott (which covers the last four years of the Clinton presidency to the 2000 election), and pages 136 to 205 covers politics in Alabama, Scott's home state. I bought my copy at a bookstore in Nashville TN, and it worth looking into if you get it. Stantis is probably one of the better mainstream political cartoonists and I'd say that's a rare find. The cartoons itself is good. Sadly, the book could use a better presentation. For starters, the order the cartoons ran are in backwards. A cartoon published in 1996 is at the last page, while the most recent cartoon (2000), is in the first. So you're literally looking backwards through time. Also, the cartoon on page 10 is blurry. It looks like they used a low quality copy of the cartoon, so it's pretty bad looking. Keep in mind that this book was published by the Birmingham News (newspaper Scott draws cartoons for) and not by a professional publisher, so there are flaws to think about. Despite the goof ups I mentioned, it's an okay retrospective for one of the better conservative cartoonists around, so if you somehow find it, I'd say go for it.