An illustrated memoir by renowned New Yorker cartoonist Bruce Eric Kaplan. “If The Little Prince had crash-landed, instead of in the Sahara, into a middle-class Jewish home in Maplewood, N.J. in the late 1960s, it might feel something like I Was a Child.”—The Hollywood Reporter Bruce Eric Kaplan, also known as BEK, is one of the most celebrated and admired cartoonists in America. I Was a Child is the story of his childhood in suburban New Jersey, detailing the small moments we all experience: going to school, playing with friends, family dinners, watching TV on a hot summer night, and so on. It would seem like a conventional childhood, although Kaplan's anecdotes are accompanied by his signature drawings of family outings and life at home-road trips, milk crates, hamsters, ashtrays, a toupee, a platypus, and much more. Kaplan's cartoons, although simple, are never straightforward; they encompass an easy irony and dark humor that often cuts straight to the truth of experience. Brilliantly relatable and genuinely moving, I Was a Child is about our attempts to understand the mysteries that are our parents, our families, and ourselves.

I Was a Child: A Memoir

Comics & Graphic Novels

Kaplan, Bruce Eric

Comic Strips

Blue Rider Press

The personal stories of fifty cats, as presented by a "New Yorker" cartoonist, include the tale of Puffin, whose brief fling with a cat from Atlantic City thrusts her into the ugly underworld of salt-water taffy addiction.

The Cat That Changed My Life: 50 Cats Talk Candidly About How They Became Who They Are

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Simon&Schuster

In this brilliant new cartoon collection, Bruce Eric Kaplan examines the lives and loves of anxious housewives, mournful insects, crabby senior citizens, self-righteous toddlers, bitter sheep, and befuddled businessmen, among others. If you are one of the above, or know anyone who is, or ever hope to be one yourself, this book is for you. 
 In this brilliant new cartoon collection, Bruce Eric Kaplan examines the lives and loves of anxious housewives, mournful insects, crabby senior citizens, self-righteous toddlers, bitter sheep, and befuddled businessmen, among others. If you are one of the above, or know anyone who is, or ever hope to be one yourself, this book is for you.

This Is A Bad Time: A Collection of Cartoons

Q: What would happen if an intrepid person went around the country asking cats of all personality types and persuasions one simple question -- Who was the cat that had the most significant effect on your life and why?
A: This book. And what you will find in it is amusing, shocking, touching, and altogether unlike anything else you have ever experienced.

Every Person on the Planet: An Only Somewhat Anxiety-Filled Tale for the Holidays

Every Person On The Planet tells the delightful story of Edmund and Rosemary, an average couple who lead an uneventful life, and what happens when one fateful day they decide to throw a party for the holidays. As their guest list becomes longer and longer, they become paralyzed with the fear of forgetting anyone. So naturally, there's only one thing to do--they invite every person on the planet. They never expect that the whole world will show. But what happens when the whole world does? Every Person On The Planet is hilarious, touching, thoughtful, and uniquely beautiful. We think this is an altogether perfect book and you will too.

How To Create Comics & Manga

A darkly comic memoir about being a working creative person in a world that is growing ever more dysfunctional, by acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist and television writer Bruce Eric Kaplan. In January 2022, Bruce Eric Kaplan found himself confused and upset by the state of the world and the state of his life as a television writer in Los Angeles. He started a journal to keep from going mad, which eventually became They Went Another Way. The book's through line traces his attempt to get a television project set up in the increasingly Byzantine world of Hollywood. But as he details the project's ups and downs, Kaplan finds himself ruminating not only on show business but also on today's political and social issues, on old movies and TV shows and music, on his family, on his friends, on his past, on his failing heating system, and on all the dead birds that keep showing up in his backyard. This hilarious and surprisingly moving book is about life--about art, about love, about alienation, about connection, about ugliness and beauty, about disappointment, wonder, and hope. In short, it is about everything.

They Went Another Way: A Hollywood Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Henry Holt and Co.

A modern fable follows Edmund and Rosemary as they confront the increasing unpleasantness of their everyday lives.

Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell: A Story We All Really Need Now More Than Ever

One Sunday afternoon, an ordinary couple named Edmund and Rosemary decide to go for a walk in their Brooklyn neighborhood. Within moments, they are plunged into a wonderful, nerve-racking, hilarious, unique adventure that begins with a cell phone and ends in a jungle halfway around the world. In Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell, famed New Yorker cartoonist Bruce Eric Kaplan uses his trademark incisive wit to explore what it is that prevents us from seeing all that we have. By turns wickedly funny and oddly touching, this provocative and ultimately hopeful picture book for adults will appeal to anyone who has ever been stuck in traffic or, more to the point, stuck inside themselves.

Everything Is Going to Be Okay: A Book for You or Someone Like You

EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OKAYIt€™s a terrible world out there and we all know it. But now that we have this delightful picture book for adults by famed New Yorker cartoonist Bruce Eric Kaplan, it€™s just a little bit better. In these pages you will discover a unique story of two people, one graduation speech, and many things you mayor may not need to know. This wise and wonderful book is the perfect gift for any graduate. In fact, we promise that anyone who reads it will be enthralled, inspired, moved, amused, and most important, will learn the secret to having a deeply fulfilling life. Results are 100 percent d but completely beside the point.

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I Was a Child: A Memoir

I Was a Child: A Memoir

The Cat That Changed My Life: 50 Cats Talk Candidly About How They Became Who They Are

This Is A Bad Time: A Collection of Cartoons

The Cat That Changed My Life: 50 Cats Talk Candidly About How They Became Who They Are

Every Person on the Planet: An Only Somewhat Anxiety-Filled Tale for the Holidays

They Went Another Way: A Hollywood Memoir

Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell: A Story We All Really Need Now More Than Ever

Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell: A Story We All Really Need Now More Than Ever

Everything Is Going to Be Okay: A Book for You or Someone Like You