EPISODE · Apr 5, 2022 · 5 MIN
What's So Funny?: A Cartoonist's Memoir by David Sipress
from Listen to Trending Full trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs · host Travon Collins
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What's So Funny?: A Cartoonist's Memoir Author: David Sipress Narrator: T. Ryder Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: David Sipress, a dreamer and obsessive drawer living with his Upper West Side family in the age of JFK and Sputnik, goes hazy when it comes to the ceaselessly imparted lessons-on-life from his meticulous father and the angsty expectations of his migraine-prone mother. With wry and brilliantly observed prose, Sipress paints his hapless place in the family, from the time he is tricked by his unreliable older sister into rocketing his pet turtle out his twelfth-floor bedroom window, to the moment he walks away from a Harvard PhD program in Russian history to begin his life as a professional cartoonist. Sipress' cartoons appear in the story with spot-on precision, inducing delightful Aha! moments in answer to the perennial question aimed at cartoonists: Where do you get your ideas? Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What's So Funny?: A Cartoonist's Memoir Author: David Sipress Narrator: T. Ryder Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: David Sipress, a dreamer and obsessive drawer living with his Upper West Side family in the age of JFK and Sputnik, goes hazy when it comes to the ceaselessly imparted lessons-on-life from his meticulous father and the angsty expectations of his migraine-prone mother. With wry and brilliantly observed prose, Sipress paints his hapless place in the family, from the time he is tricked by his unreliable older sister into rocketing his pet turtle out his twelfth-floor bedroom window, to the moment he walks away from a Harvard PhD program in Russian history to begin his life as a professional cartoonist. Sipress' cartoons appear in the story with spot-on precision, inducing delightful Aha! moments in answer to the perennial question aimed at cartoonists: Where do you get your ideas? Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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