Customer Reviews

Non Sequitur’s Beastly Things

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This collection of Non Sequitur cartoons is amazing. I expected a smaller collection, but this one was massive. A whopping 256 pages of Non Sequitur comics. The book is very well done and it shows the hard work Wiley obviously put into it.

If you are a "Non Sequitur" fan, do yourself a favor and buy this book. It's very cool.

-Stacy Curtis.

Anyone trying to make sense of modern culture is bound to fail. Wiley's job, it seems, it to show why. The cartoons are all just a little off from reality - it's not the difference that's so amusing, but the realities that he lampoons.

I get a taste of Wiley in my daily newspaper. This collection is a feast, a treasure of daily and sunday strips. Now that I see them collected, the recurring themes and characters are even more apparent and enjoyable.

My one complaint about this book is density - or lack of it. Other comic strip collections in this format print at least five or six dailies per page - this usually prints just two or three. Yes, I like being able to see additional detail in each panel. On the whole, I'd prefer more Wiley.

The more life experience you have under your belt the more you will enjoy Wiley's work. Both my husband and I loved this book. It was worth every penny. Just the book to pick up when you want to pick yourself up after a rough day.

Love the humour ! Hits home everytime. I love the fact that I am able to relate to real life experiences or topics. One of the best book that I've ever "invested" and a great piece to add to my collection.

This is definitely a book of, from and about the 1990's. For those of us who lived through them, this will seem extremely funny. For those whose memories start a bit later, or who were rather young at the time, this will be an interesting anthropological study. Except for the occasioanl cartoon that made me laugh out loud, bring the book to work and photocopy a page, clip the cartoon out and post it by a computer, and point it out obsessively to everyone else in the office.

Wiley is one of my favorite cartoonists, and I love his stuff... but maybe more his later stuff than this earlier stuff. He has a website, and you can read his current cartoons online (back to 2000). He even does buisness cards. I want the ones where you can have your name & info next to a picture of the penguin hovering near a flower. Unfortunately, his website stuff doesn't ship overseas... Guess I have to wait.

If you are a) really pessimistic about life in the cities, life in the present or life in general because of b) lawyers, the IRS, families, neighbours, panhandlers, people in general, God and / or c) still have a sense of - admittedly weird - humour left, then this is a book for you. Even if it is baaad!

Otherwise enjoy life without it.