Customer Reviews

The Wild Life of Cats: A Rubes Cartoon Book

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
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1 star:		(2)

 

 

I found "The Wild Life of Cats" to be hilarious and I highly recommend it. You don't have to be a cat lover to enjoy this all color cartoon book. But if you are a cat lover (like me!) this marvelous collection will make you laugh page after page. Rubes knows how to capture humorous insights of animals like no other cartoonist. Any one in his series of Wild Life books (Cows, Dogs, Farm Animals, and Pets) would make an excellent present for family and friends... if they enjoy a good laugh!

I'm glad I purchased this book. Very funny! An entertaining read for anyone who is owned by a cat, or would like to be. Cats are fascinating creatures and this little book gives us just another perspective of what we just know cats are really like.

I first received this little book as a gift. I immediately ordered 10 copies, knowing that the feline fanciers in my life would find it PAWsome! If you're not a devotee of cats but still enjoy wry humor, this comic collection of kitty antics is worth the investment. The Wild Life of Cats is a standout in the Rubes series. Don't let the "one-star" comments dissuade you. This particular cartoon selection is absolutely meow-velous!

Another Leigh Rubin masterpiece of humor. Somehow he gets inside a cat's mind to make us laugh.

I got The Wild Life of Cats as soon as it came out! It's great! I also bought several copies for my friends and they love it! The humor is really right-on target and anbody who's the least bit familiar with cats - or ever even seen a cat - will recognize and apprecite the cartoons! All of the cartoons are in color, which is very nice. My kids love it and my cats even recognize themselves!

I read The Wild Life of Cats and I can't get over how funny it is. Leigh Rubin is a comic genius and that comes across loud and clear in this book!! This is a must read if you love cats and if you love humor. I would recommend this to anyone and everyone.

I love all of the Rubes cartoons and books but this one is my favorite so far! Not only is it hilarious, but the color is amazing. This is a great addition to my collection and a perfect gift for any cat-crazy human!

There were so many laughs in this book! Rubin has really captured the subtle personality quirks of cats. He's really gotten into the mindset of how a cat would think. Lots of clever wordplay and new takes on classic cat stereotypes.What's also cool is that it's in full color....really unusual for a cartoon collection. My family loved it! We are giving it to all of our many cat loving friends this Christmas.

I got this book after seeing a "preview" page with 3 of the cartoons featured and they looked hilarious. I thought it would make a great gift for my mom, who has 2 quirky cats. Boy am I ever disappointed. I think they saved the best 3 for the preview page, because the rest of book is not even mildly amusing. The cartoons are not in bad taste or crude humor, they're just sort of corny and some don't even make sense. The "jokes" remind me of an 8th grade art project my brother did where they had to draw their own humorous cartoons. I flipped through all 92 (very thin) pages and I don't think I even cracked a smile. It was so corny in places I was honestly embarassed. I'd send it back, but it's not worth the shipping, so please do your part and save your money.

Rubes, in short, has the same style as Gary Larson's legendary "Far Side" comics, except for one fatal flaw: rubes isn't funny. Each panel is like an iron stake being driven into my brain. After reading the entire book, I chuckled maybe once. The comics are based on the corniest of jokes, but their not even jokes really. They're just awful puns. Here, let me make up a Rubes cartoon. The caption is "Cat got your tongue?" and the picture is literally of a guy with a cat holding on to his tongue. Hopefully Leigh Rubin won't sue me, because he probably came up with that one already. Don't buy this book, don't look at the book, don't even mention this book, because mentioning it makes it slightly useful, which this book is not.