Kvetch As Kvetch Can: Jewish Cartoons [Hardcover]

Ken Krimstein (Author)

Book Description

Release date: October 5, 2010

Hold on to your yarmulkes. Ken Krimstein has put together a matzo-ball-soup-through-your-nose funny collection of his unorthodox (sometimes Reform) Jewish-themed cartoons. This book will make you laugh, eat, and feel guilty all at once. It’s like your Jewish mother that way.

Speaking of which, would it kill you to call her?

Taking on all things “Tribe” from the High Holidays to J-date, Kvetch As Kvetch Can is the perfect guilty pleasure (just add it to the list!)

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

KEN KRIMSTEIN’S cartoons have been published in the New Yorker, Punch, National Lampoon, the Wall Street Journal, Narrative, three of S. Gross’s cartoon anthologies, King Features’ “The New Breed” syndicated panel, Cosmopolitan, Science, Psychology Today, and more. He has written for New York Observer’s “New Yorker’s Diary” and has published pieces on humor websites, including McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Yankee Pot Roast, and Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood.
 

Product Details

• Hardcover: 96 pages
• Publisher: Potter Style (October 5, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0307588882
• ISBN-13: 978-0307588883
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 0.5 x 7.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #999,338 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I have been drawing cartoons since I figured out how to do Santa back in Mrs. Gilot's first grade class at the Alan B. Shepherd school. This passion followed me through High School, College, and when I started working at Ogilvy & Mather advertising in NYC, I made sure the old man himself wouldn't catch me as I ran from 48th Street to 43rd Street to drop off my cartoons at The New Yorker every Wednesday. After 10 years I broke in to that august publication (it was in May, actually), but in the meantime, my rejected cartoons had started a nice cartooning career for me. After I got into The New Yorker I started to concentrate on writing as well. When I met, well, won, a meeting with my new agent, Jennifer Lyons, at the Manhattan School for Children Charity Auction, she went ga-ga over my cartoons, we settled on a theme (Oh, those wacky Jews!) and I made the proposal. My editor, Aliza, laughed. So did others. And I've created over 100 new cartoons on this theme. As for the research, alas, it has been a lifetime affliction.

My cartoons have been published in the New Yorker, Punch, the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Narrative, three of S. Gross's cartoon anthologies, King Features' "The New Breed" syndicated panel, Cosmopolitan, Science, Psychology Today, and more. I've written for the New York Observer's "New Yorker's Diary" and has published pieces on humor websites, including McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Yankee Pot Roast, and Mr. Beller's Neighborhood.

I'm also an ad-guy in the wannabe Mad-Man mode.

I have three kids, a wife, and a cat. Bat left. Throw left.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars I WANT YOU SHOULD BUY THIS BOOK! October 23, 2010

By Di Geff

Format:Hardcover

I'm still trying to pick my favorite cartoon, but it's just not possible! The sharpest, wittiest, most endearing celebration of any culture, ever. The brilliant and hilarious 'nudge-nudge-wink-wink' tone that Members of the Tribe will eat up (because, really, it all comes down to food) will not alienate the shiksas and sheygetzs of the world, but will, in fact, invite them in to a not-so-secret society to enjoy the jokes and gags that all boil down to human nature - and maybe a nice bowl of chicken soup.

5.0 out of 5 stars A bracingly funny read! January 19, 2011

By wwindsor uws

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

A funny, funny, funny book! I've read it five times and now have my favorites -- so does my wife.

5.0 out of 5 stars Hits a 10 on my Ha-Ha meter December 1, 2010

By B. Biederman

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

"Kvetch" made me kvell. The squiggly cartoons are wry, well-observed and uniformly a hoot. Krimstein comes off as authentically Upper West Side as Zabar's, as soul-enriching as chicken soup with matzoh balls.Somebody else wrote - obviously inspired by Levy's bread - that you don't have to be Jewish to enjoy this book. But it couldn't hurt,