Wednesday, January 04, 2023

Stuff Bully Got for Christmas: That Steve Martin book

I got Number One Walking by Steve Martin and Harry Bliss from my sister for Christmas! It's been on my wish list since it was announced so I was very, very happy to open it! About half the book is Steve telling anecdotes about his work in movies, his discussion translated into comics by Harry. Very entertaining!


I laughed out loud several times and you can definitely hear the stories in Martin's voice. On the other hand, the second half half of the book is single page gag cartoons that are pretty good — in the style of The New Yorker, or, for some of the more absurd ones, B. Kliban...but they're printing one panel to a two-page spread and I flipped through them very quickly, making it a pretty fast read. I read this in about half an hour. As I like to say, two hoofs up!

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