What happens when two cartoonists for The New Yorker
fall in love and marry? Lots of witty wordplay, skewering
drawings, and a healthy dose of illustrative competition.
For twenty years, veteran cartoonists Liza Donnelly and
Michael Maslin have been exploring in their work the ins and
outs of marriage. From whimsical and wacky to risqué and
barbed, their humor allows us to laugh at our follies and
foibles and the insanity that is inherent in the day-to-day
workings of every marriage. From meeting, wooing, and dating
to marrying, divorcing, and remarrying, from having sex to
having kids, the course of true love never runs smooth–but
it’s excellent fodder for talented humorists.
Here,
Donnelly and Maslin offer a his-and-hers view of marriage, a
cartoon conversation about all that love entails. From the
wedding day (“And do you, Louise, take Jack to be your
husband until really, really pissed-off do you part?”) to
cohabitation (“And this is where I go to escape from where I
go to escape”) to parenting (“Dad says it’s all right with
him if I watch TV as long as it’s not all right with you”),
husband and wife give us hilarious insights into the way
relationships work. Cartoon Marriage shares clever takes on
male/female communication (“You could at least acknowledge
the fact that I’m ignoring you”) and renovation (“I’ve made
a few improvements, but the way you see him now is pretty
much the way I found Harold eleven years ago”). And of
course, what view of marriage would be complete without a
trip to the bedroom: “Owen, look, the good-sex
fairy.”
Featuring more than two hundred hilarious
cartoons, Cartoon Marriage is a deliciously witty
true-to-life look at matrimony, children, happiness,
connubial squabbling, and everything in between.
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