Tiny Footprints (Paperback)

by B. Kliban (Author)

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Product Description
Absolutely the last advice for seventy-five miles, a collection of 150 cartoons that consider topics such as information, dilute truth and the best way to hitchhike to the coast.

Visual jokes and puns, fantasies and long thoughts-taking the reader to here, there, and Nirvana (sometimes with a side trip to Portland). A New York Times bestseller. 248,000 copies in print.

About the Author
B. Kliban's books include Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head, Whack Your Porcupine, Tiny Footprints, and Cat, the bestseller that launched a national cat craze.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company; First Printing edition (January 5, 1978)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0894800310
• ISBN-13: 978-0894800313
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #757,127 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Thirty years old and still funny, August 10, 2007

By	Lynn Hoffman, author:The Short Course in Beer (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

As of this writing, Tiny Footprints is almost
thirty years old. Most comics don't stay funny
for more than a few years. Indeed most comedy
tends to wither with age.
There are some other exceptions: Cervantes is
still a hoot, the Mark Brothers are perhaps
eternal and then there's Kliban. Part of his
appeal is that the things he draws about are eternal:
The man with his brains falling out at the sight
of a sexy woman, the naked man fishing on the
opposite bank of the river from the naked woman,
the intellectuals staring at the tough guys.
But other things, like the fellow kneeling at
the mouse hole with two slices of bread or the
plucked ducks watching Icarus take off are
evidence of a sensibility that's just this side of
mad. That's mad as in whacky, crazy, lunatic.

So if this book hits sixty, I predict that the cartoon
of the emaciated couple admiring the contents of
their stuffed refrigerator will still make people
spit up milk through their twenty-first century noses.


--Lynn Hoffman, author of THE NEW SHORT COURSE IN WINE and
the novel bang BANG. ISBN 9781601640005

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic of modern cartooning, June 16, 1998

By A Customer

Burt Kliban is one of the unsung heroes of modern cartooning. 'The Far Side' and dozens of similar strips are pale imitations of this. A great sense of line and shade, wicked humour and wonderful strangeness make this unmissable. Buy it NOW!