The World According to Carp [Paperback]

Richard Guindon (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: Andrews Mcmeel Pub (August 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0836212142
• ISBN-13: 978-0836212143
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #269,003 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "That's not the Goodrich carp....Goodrich doesn't have a carp!", September 4, 2009

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Nagronsky "Nagronsky" (Skagit Valley, Wa USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The World According to Carp (Paperback)

So what if there's no socially biting commentary? How many comics contain that?
Even if you don't have to plug a block heater into your car between Halloween & Easter, even if you don't own a plaid Mackinaw, if you have a tendency to peep out a the passing panoply of life slightly cockeyed, there's something weird here for you. ("It's too early too pick up chicks. May as well go ice fishing.")
If you want social commentary, go check out Walt Kelly's Pogo, Doonesbury, or even 1960's vintage Al Capp. If you think there are WMDs in Iraq, see Mallard Fillmore
BTW, if you enjoy Dick Guindon's 'toons, check out Jerry van Amerongen's six "The Neighborhood" books, or his more recent Ballard Street.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The cartoons lack a significant bite of social sarcasm, June 10, 2008

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The World According to Carp (Paperback)

I do not rank this collection of cartoons among the highest in quality, satire or humor. They are good, but lack the social bite or sarcasm that most the best cartoons have. Many are based on the presence of a carp, a rough river fish that the sarcastic refer to as "sewer bass." The incongruous natures of having a fish float in the sky as a blimp; wearing carp on your feet or sending a carp as a gift are a bit humorous. The remaining contain some social commentary, but lack a quality point that grabs and holds you.