They're a Very Successful Family!: The Vagaries and Vicissitudes of Upscaling Suburbia

Farris, Joseph

Arts & Photography

Spectacle Lane Pr

When top New Yorker magazine contributor, Joseph Farris drew these cartoons in the late 1990's, he saw things that few others saw. Greed, deceit, fraud, theft of shareholders' assets--all the elements of today's headlined corporate scandals, violations of ethics, bogus accounting, and corporate governance failures are grist for the devastatingly funny and deadly accurate cartoons in this sweeping indictment of business behavior that cost shareholders billions.

Money Inc.: A Wry Look at Business Today

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

A Soldier's Sketchbook, an illustrated memoir from a World War II soldier, is drawn from the letters, sketches, snapshots, and mementos of Pvt. Joseph Farris, who left his home of Danbury, Connecticut, and set off to war aboard the U.S.S. General Gordon in October 1944, bound for France as part of Company M, 398th Infantry. Farris wrote more than 800 letters home, and he hewed his artistic talents with sketches and paintings along the way. He also secretly copied officers' notes and, once back home after the war, collected clippings and battlefield accounts, which form a sobering counterpoint to his reassurances to his parents that everything is "swell." This book chronicles a young soldier's experiences from October 1944 through January 1946 in France and Germany. In words and pictures, it tells of Christmas in the trenches, long walks through the rain and mud, landscapes of fear and despair, lost friends and leaders, changing beliefs about human nature, God, and the Jerries (as he calls the Germans). Transcriptions of many of the 800 letters Joseph Farris wrote home sit side by side with the real thing, reproduced in facsimile on the page. Snapshots and color sketches, painted in moments of reprieve during battle and carried home by this earnest young man and fledgling artist, help us see the world he saw.

A Soldier's Sketchbook: From the Front Lines of World War II

Individual Artists

National Geographic

Cartoons offer a humorous look at business, employee relations, corporate meetings, computers, banks, and bosses

Just a Cog in the Wheel

Adams Media Corp.

In his illustrious career as a cartoonist for the New Yorker and other publications, Joseph Farris has created dozens of hilarious cartoons about the best game in the world at which to be bad.” A.A. Milne had it right, and Farris’s cartoons get to the heart of the game’s wonderful contradiction: over the course of eighteen holes, golf has the capacity to bring great joy and drive you crazy. Farris treats us to the sight of a blissfully happily newlywed with Just Married” emblazoned on the back of his golf cart; of an archaeologist who discovers a hieroglyph featuring an annoyed-looking pharaoh breaking a golf club over his knee; and a TV-watching husband who rebuffs his naked wife’s amorous advances in no uncertain terms: Not now, I’m watching Tiger Woods.” It’s been said that real golfers don’t cry. That may or may not be true. Joseph Farris’s cartoons are sure to make any golfer laugh.

It's a Stupid Game; It'll Never Amount to Anything: The Golf Cartoons of Joseph Farris

Comics & Graphic Novels

Comic Strips

Skyhorse

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