Irreverent Ink for the Laughing Crowd [Paperback]

Noel Marsh (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 7, 2001

This book of single panel cartoons has but one purpose: to make people laugh. Noel Marsh firmly believes that the quality of our lives can be enhanced by humor and the ability to laugh at ourselves, and with others about most of our life experiences. With this in mind, the various pages depict incongruous situations, make gentle fun of almost every aspect of life and use word plays to invoke reactions - hopefully smiles. Everyone and everything is treated with equal irreverence.

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About the Author

Noel would like to tell people how he was expelled from kindergarten for drawing funny pictures of his teachers on the blackboard, and making weird caricatures of the other kids in the class because he had this compelling obsession to draw cartoons from the time he was born. But this is not true. He only started drawing and cartooning four years ago after going through two other careers. He has always enjoyed joking around with friends, and alas, was exposed to puns from a tender age. He apparently became afflicted with witzelsucht during his early childhood. This is a technical term found in Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 26th edition, the definition of which is: A morbid tendency to pun, make poor jokes and tell pointless stories, while being oneself inordinately entertained thereby. He became aware of his condition only recently when a good friend brought this to his attention while analyzing his current career change. Prior to becoming a cartoonist he led a fairly normal life; born in California, grew up in New Zealand and traveled the world in an attempt to change it. When he finally realized he couldn't he decided to take up cartooning. His first career started when he got out of UC Berkeley and joined the US Department of State, working as a Foreign Service Officer with the Agency for International Development. Over a span of 25 years he lived and worked in Asia, Latin America and Africa. He came into the agency as an overseas management intern and from that time on he was often selected to address the classes of new interns (an assignment which he admits to enjoying). When talking to these groups of young people he recalls trying to keep up their excitement about joining the Foreign Service by explaining that it really was a great job because they got to travel around the world, change jobs every 2 to 4 years and their resume still looked good - it sort of legitimized drifting. In this way he was also able

Product Details

• Paperback: 102 pages
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing (August 7, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155212861X
• ISBN-13: 978-1552128619
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,459,199 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)