Bruce Eric Kaplan, Author . Simon & Schuster $11.95 (118p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7470-8
Edmund and Rosemary lead quiet lives in their Brooklyn apartment with their cat and their neuroses. One day, despite their preference for solitude, they inexplicably decide to throw a party. They feel obliged to invite so many people they do not...
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Bruce Eric Kaplan, Author . Simon & Schuster $12.95 (181p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5694-7
In spite of the title, there isn’t much love to be found in New Yorker
cartoonist Kaplan’s collection of single-panel cartoons. Whether the protagonists are couples, parents and children, cocktail party attendees, or woodland animals,...
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Bruce Eric Kaplan, S&S/Aladdin, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4169-8689-8
A monster with a dragging tail and crested head takes whiners Henry and Eve home in a sack, planning to make them into whiny-child salad, but that doesn't curtail their behavior ("I don't like sitting on lettuce," whines Henry). The monster's wife...
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Bruce Eric Kaplan, Author Simon & Schuster $16 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7432-5218-8
Kaplan's newest collection of hilariously wry drawings plunges readers into a black-and-white world drenched with sarcasm, irony and satirical humor: a place where children wisely declare that""your priorities change once you get a new toy,"" and...
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Bruce Eric Kaplan. Penguin/Blue Rider, $25.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-399-16951-9
New Yorker cartoonist Kaplan (Everything Is Going to Be Okay) recalls the somewhat stifling years of his conventional childhood in Maplewood, N.J., in his first nonfiction endeavor. The young Kaplan finds solace in television’s “clarity of emotions,”
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Bruce Eric Kaplan. Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4424-4923-7
Teddy is bummed out when his mother tells him that Cousin Irv is coming to visit from Mars (“We’re not close,” she says) and that he’ll have to share his room with his short, green, antennae-bearing relative. Cousin Irv breathes loudly and guilts...
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Bruce Eric Kaplan. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4424-8542-6
“There’s nothing sillier than fighting about what belongs to whom, but no kids and even fewer adults know that,” observes Kaplan (Cousin Irv from Mars) sagely in this wonderful book about badly behaved siblings. Try telling that to Henry and Eve,...
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Bruce Eric Kaplan. Simon & Schuster, $15.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4814-9063-4
A lot can be said about farts, but one thing is certain: they reveal character. Case in point: Kaplan’s Krupke family. While driving in silence to “their dreaded weekly food shopping,” someone toots. Sally notices it, then denies it, as do her...
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Bruce Eric Kaplan. Holt, $28.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-37033-4
Screenwriter and cartoonist Kaplan (I Was a Child) captures the agonizing uncertainty of trying to get a TV series greenlit in this plangently funny memoir. Through a series of diary entries, Kaplan catalogs his monthslong efforts in 2022 to sell a...
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Bruce Eric Kaplan. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5344-6286-1
When Morris, a bowtie-wearing bear father, secures a copy of his favorite childhood book, Tom, the Angry Truck, he insists that his cub Benny love it as much as he does. But Benny doesn’t, and an epic battle of wills begins, with Dad bringing an...
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