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Downes, Nick

Comic Strips

Rutgers University Press

When cartoonist Nick Downes looks to Big Science for explanations, anything can happen. This first collection of his zany view of life in the laboratory - and beyond - takes everything to an extreme, from technology ("Aerobics is down the hall. This is Robotics.") to the atmosphere (with "threatening clouds" that spell out "you're doomed"). Downes' dark side allows him to see the agnostic mantis, the agoraphobic lost in the desert, and the toxic waste dump behind the much-photographed Lookout Point. Downes' cartoons have appeared in a wide array of magazines, books, and newspapers both in the US and abroad and have been included in a number of humor anthologies.

Big Science

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Humor

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Polly Wants A Lawyer: Cartoons of Murder, Mayhem & Criminal Mischief

If you enjoy humor a bit dark, a tad outrageous with a whiff of the sinister and macabre, then this collection of cartoons, Polly Wants A Lawyer is for you. Long time New Yorker cartoonist Nick Downes has a talent for finding hilarity down the mean streets of law & disorder. Crazed criminals, corrupt cops, tainted juries, chaotic courtrooms, schemers, hustlers and cranks, Downes handles all with a deft comic touch. With Polly Wants A Lawyer, Nick Downes presents a rogues gallery of bitingly funny takes on our sordid world of crime & punishment. Advanced Praise "In the venerable tradition of Charles Addams and Gahan Wilson, Nick Downes-with this collection of fabulously bizarre, twisted, and sometimes macabre gags-proves himself to be a cartoonist with a deliciously freaky sense of fun."-Emma Allen, Cartoon Editor of The New Yorker "I didn't know I could laugh out loud while gasping in shock, but this book made me do it over and over...Deceptively sweet-looking cartoons that pack a real gut punch. "-Mike Reiss, Award winning comedy writer and executive producer of 'The Simpsons' "Nick Downes has never been to jail. He's a good boy."-Sam Gross, Cartoonist for The New Yorker, National Lampoon, Playboy, and many others "Nick Downes is one of our greatest living cartoonists. That's right, he's still living."-Bob Eckstein, New York Times bestselling author, cartoonist

Polly Wants a Lawyer: Cartoons of Murder, Mayhem & Criminal Mischief

Humorist Books

If you enjoy humor a bit dark, a tad outrageous, if you like comedy with a whiff of the sinister and the macabre, then this collection of cartoons, Polly Wants A Lawyer is for you. Long time New Yorker cartoonist Nick Downes has a talent for finding hilarity in the darker, meaner corners of our world of law & disorder.Crazed criminals, corrupt cops, tainted juries, chaotic courtrooms, schemers, hustlers and cranks, with a deft comic touch, Downes takes on the absurdities of crime & punishment and renders all very, very funny. With Polly Wants a Lawyer, Nick Downes serves up a rogues gallery of hilariously twisted takes on crime, violence, and disorder.

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