Customer Reviews
A real treasure - By: utility dog, 15 Nov 2008 
I started laughing at the first page I openedin this wonderful book - the cartoons are just as funny today as they were when first publishedin Punch. And if you're like me you could do with a laugh right now. There are 600 pages & 3 or 4 cartoons per page, spanning the decades from the mid-19th century to the end of the twentieth. The early cartoons are drawn with exquisite skill which we're perhaps not used to today, & are no less funny for that, but it's the more recent ones that I love most, with classics from Honeysett, Husband & Heath keeping company with names that are less familiar to us but whose work is still funny enough to have my fatherin stitches. I miss Punch but if you want a Christmas present for someone who could do with some cheering up, this mght be the answer.
A rapid and humourous scan of social history - By: G. Gavigan, 07 Nov 2008 For me cartoons provide a wonderful social & political commentary & they're funny as well.
It would be possible to list & describe each cartoonist, but I'd rather say that the drawing & punchlines from across the years tell you so much about the issue being lampooned & the periodin question.
New to me, was that Tenniel was a cartoonist as well as having produced the best illustrations for Alicein Wonderland
The collection is well put together, it's well worth the Amazon price.
