From the Very Big Desk Of... : Business Cartoons by New Yorker Cartoonist Charles Barsotti

by Barsotti, Charles; Tobias, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780821257937
• ISBN10: 0821257935
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-17
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co

Summary

The clean, spare lines, looping oversized noses, and sharp wit of Charles Barsottis business cartoons have been a staple at The New Yorker for more than three decades. Featuring angry, fist-pounding bosses, hapless, undersized underlings, and deadpan secretaries making outrageous utterances, these are among the cleverest and most searing business cartoons out there. People on every step of the corporate ladder, from office temp to CEO, will identify with the hilarious scenarios in Barsottis brilliant sketches.

Author Biography

Charles Barsotti, formerly the cartoon editor of the The Saturday Evening Post, has been a staff cartoonist at the New Yorker since 1970. His work has also appeared in Playboy and Fast Company, among other publications. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

Andrew Tobias ran the hugely successful Let's Go guides at Harvard in the 60s and then went on to publish 3 New York Times bestsellers on business and personal finance. He has had a column in Time magazine and has appeared on Today, Tonight, Good Morning America, Face the Nation, and the MacNeil-Lehrer Report. With Jane Bryant Quinn, he hosted Beyond Wall Street, a 1997 eight-part PBS documentary. He is also Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee.