We all do. Everyone has a favorite cartoonist, or a writer of humor that can bring out that chuckle. It is impossible for me to look at a Gary Larson book without cracking up. He is particularly funny if you have knowledge of wildlife, domestic animals, science, and biology. We have 10 classic Larson 1980s paperbacks.
Our humor category includes cartoonists such as the timeless Charles Schulz (Snoopy), and Jim Davis (Garfield). Often we have Calvin and Hobbes. Hobbes, being the namesake of the bookstore’s new kitten who is growing incredibly fast into a cat.
We have collections of books by Dave Barry, Patrick McManus, and Gary Trudeau, as well as humor from the popular culture of the past decades going back to the early 1900s.
Humorists: (dates are the approximate beginning of their careers)
Early 1900s: P.G. Wodehouse
The 1920s: Theodor Seuss Geisel, James Thurber
The 1930s: Ring Lardner, T. S. Eliot (Cats)
The 1940s: Edward Lear, Walt Kelly (Pogo)
The 1950s: Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, S. J. Perelman
The 1960s: Max Shulman (Dobbie Gillis), Richard Armour (It All Started With…), Edward Gorey
The 1970s: Gary Trudeau
The 1980s: Erma Bombeck, Lynn Johnston, P.J. O’Rourke, Nora Ephron, Tom Bodett, Garrison Keillor, Molly Ivins (through 90s), Jim Davis, Gary Larson
The 1990s: Cathy Guisewite, Bill Bryson, Scott Adams (Dilbert), Bill Watterson, David Sedaris, Christopher Moore
The 2000s: Berkeley Breathed, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert, Lewis Black, George Carlin, Michael Moore
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