Welcome to Lumpy Gravy

By John Long and John Long

Book Overview

For those who are not already among the 5 million readers devoted to John Long's syndicated cartoons, "Welcome to Lumpy Gravy" Created by John Long, a fireman who was also an artist with a grass-roots art fair following. "Lumpy Gravy" won a highly publicized competition to replace "The Far Side" cartoon in The Detroit News in 1995. Perhaps it was the 14 years of life-and-death drama on the job as a fireman that bent John Long's mind into creating the freshest, funniest, oddest, ever-so-deliciously twisted material that comes out as: "Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head consider plastic surgery." William Penn and his brother, Bic." "The wicked witch of the Midwest." With over 250 cartoons, plus a 16-page full-color insert, John Long proves on every page that he's trying to take cartooning to the next level. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Quality Paperback Book Club, and Troll Book Club. 68,000 copies in print.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761107355
• ISBN13: 9780761107354
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

RETURN WITH JOY

I met John Long at an art fair and purchased several of his drawings. I forgot I had this book and today returned to read it again. It is so funny and insightful and captures the humor of many different disciplines, eg: police, dogs, overweight people. If you have a sense of humor you will never regret buying and enjoying this books, repeaditly.

Rip roaring side splitting funny

There are a lot of Garry Larson/ Far Side wannabees out there but John Long may very well BE Gary Larson. (HMMM Gary Larson--Lumpy Gravy G-L L-G ) Lumpy Gravy has all the halarity of the Far Side From Cows that think there Human to prehistoric men and a spotted dog that looks suspiciously like something from the far side. For art stundents there are plenty of spoofs and allusions to classic artists like Picasso, Van Gough and Salvadoe Dali.If you have read every Far Side book out there then this book should be next on your reading list.

Very funny, and very American

The angles taken are 'oh-so-true'......the best yet for everyday laughter

Better than Dr. Seuss and really silly.

I'm four and my Daddy bought two children's books for me on my birthday. They're okay, but he got this 'Wumpy Gwavy' book for himself, and I really love it. I grabbed it as soon as it was out of the box and sat reading it for an hour, constantly asking my Daddy questions. "Daddy? Why is the doggie drawing on the other doggie? He's silly." "Ha, ha, that man looks like an ice-cream cone Daddy." "Look at all the butt-moons in the bus, what are all the butt-moons doing on the bus Daddy?" After dinner we all read it together even though Daddy wanted to read me the books he got me. This was a few weeks ago and now everyone has read it, its really funny. Grandma came over and woke us up in the morning because she was laughing too much and Mommy wants to use some of the pictures for work to make people laugh while she's teaching them