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Before the inspired nonsense of Monty Python, David Letterman and the Far Side, there were Droodles. With a few squiggles in a simple square, these clever drawings created absurd scenes like "Ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch" (used by Frank Zappa as an album cover), "Octopus signaling for a left turn" and "Clam with buck teeth." And they were all the creation of one brilliant and unpredictable man Roger Price.
At the height of their popularity in the mid-1950s, fans enjoyed the Droodles TV show, a Droodles daily newspaper column, Droodles magazine features, Droodles cocktail napkins, even Droodles in ads for Lucky Strike cigarettes. Like hula hoops, drive-in movies and UFOs, Droodles were one of the biggest fads of the 1950s.
Now Droodles make their triumphant return to delight a new generation that can use some laughs. The Ultimate Droodles Compendium includes every one of Roger Price's 352 most famous Droodles in delightful new full-quality reproductions, with Price's inspired text and quirky footnotes. There's more a Roger Price/Droodles reminiscence by beloved media critic Leonard Maltin, a full history of Roger Price and Droodles by Emmy-winning writer Fritz Holznagel, and comments from comedy legend Carl Reiner, Boing Boing's Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair, and others.
Droodles are back in this handsome, hilarious, ultimate collection from Tallfellow Press. Droodles now. Droodles forever!
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"The Ultimate Droodles Compendium: The Absurdly Complete Collection of Roger Price's Classic Zany Creations by Roger Price is a book I requested and the review is voluntary.
I didn't know what Droodles were until I read this and I loved them! Where have I been! The shows a great collection of them. I giggled and giggled at these witty and clever drawing that are labeled so zany! This man and his partner both came up with Mad Libs! I can image that!
This is a fun read!!!"
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The Ultimate Droodles Compendium The Absurdly Complete Collection of All the Classic Zany Creations Roger Price Fritz Holznagel Leonard Maltin 9781931290692 Books Reviews :
The Ultimate Droodles Compendium The Absurdly Complete Collection of All the Classic Zany Creations Roger Price Fritz Holznagel Leonard Maltin 9781931290692 Books Reviews
- Everything you are looking for is in here. All the Droodles you love, many you've never seen, and TONS of commentary. Excellent fun for everyone, new and old fans alike.
- This is an interesting book mostly because it works on a number of levels. If you remember Droodles, or if you're new to them, you can leaf through the book and admire the wit and clever absurdist artwork. (The book includes every published Droodle, some left over work in progress, and even Droodles used in various ad campaigns.)
If you are a Roger Price fan, there's a lot here in terms of biographical sketches, reminiscences, insider stories, and memorabilia to satisfy your curiosity/devotion. If you wonder what was "funny" in the 50's and 60's, this is a mild but amusing look back at radio, TV, and print humor. Price was also the co-creator of Mad-Libs, so he certainly had his finger on what the public found funny.
So, sure, Droodles were a "fad"; but they were worthy and had some staying power, and they're good for an admiring chuckle now.
(Please note that I received a free advance will-self-destruct-in-x-days Adobe Digital copy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.) - When I was ten or eleven years old I found a book of brainteasers that had belonged to my mom when she was about that age. The most interesting things in it were these strange “guess what this is†line drawings called droodles. Most of them were pretty much unguessable and made you groan when you read the answer. They were basically visual dad jokes. The most famous droodle is “ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch†which was used as an album cover by Frank Zappa (Google it!).
It turns out these things were somewhat of a fad back in the 50’s and 60’s. I’m a child of the 80’s and having only encountered them once before by chance, I had no idea they were such a big deal until running across this book on NetGalley. This large collection provides plenty of laughs/groans depending on your sense of humor…my wife and daughters inform me that they’re mostly stupid, but they think the same thing about my (dad) jokes.
Aside from the absurdist humor, it is entertaining to see the little stories and slices of life that Robert Price could conjure with a few simple lines, squiggles, and shapes…and frequently added to with meandering tangential footnotes. His mind certainly worked in strange ways. That said, I didn’t find the biographical section at the end terribly interesting. However, I’m not usually much into biographies of pop culture icons, so that’s just my own personal taste.
Overall, I greatly enjoyed this collection of visual dad jokes and would highly recommend it to fans of absurdist humor and/or minimalist art and creativity. - The Ultimate Droodles Compendium The Absurdly Complete Collection of Roger Price's Classic Zany Creations by Roger Price is a book I requested and the review is voluntary.
I didn't know what Droodles were until I read this and I loved them! Where have I been! The shows a great collection of them. I giggled and giggled at these witty and clever drawing that are labeled so zany! This man and his partner both came up with Mad Libs! I can image that!
This is a fun read!!! - The Ultimate Droodles Compendium by Roger Price & Fritz Nolznagel is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in early March.
Simple, symbolic drawings inside of a square box drawn by Roger Price with deep, slightly philosophical titles that somehow also describe exactly what drawings are. Holznagel provides the captions on when they were drawn and what inspired them, then, after the 50% mark, he offers Price’s biography (i.e. entering the entertainment field by writing for radio, then comedy, TV, and literature, then the Droodles in newsprint and briefly on tv, co-creator of Mad Libs, and overhangs into other forms of pop culture before his death on Halloween 1990). - Bivalve mollusks!? Who knew! Normally I hate fun books because I'm a very srs person who has forgotten how to have fun (never marry an engineer!), but every few pages of these simple illustrations have at least one chuckle- or LOL-worthy drawing or caption so I think I'll keep it for a while.
- Great conversation piece and fun to thumb through. Silly but humorous, and yet somewhat addictive reading - especially with a beverage of choice.
