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Funny Paperz #4: Bestest Editorial Cartoons of the Year - 2005

by Joe King

95 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); political cartoons; catalogue #06-1676; ISBN 1-4120-9919-6; US$15.00, C$17.25, EUR12.32, £8.63

More controversy for your coffee table! Funny Paperz #4 is an anniversary collection of illustrated political savvy and satire covering 2005 from Pulitzer Prize-nominee author and artist Joe King.

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MORE controversy for your coffee table! Funny Paperz #4 is the fourth anniversary collection of illustrated political savvy and satire by Pulitzer Prize Nominee author and artist Joe King.

Covering 2005 from the local, national and international datelines Joe King puts a hammer lock on history with over 180 illustrations taken from his syndicated daily op/ed.

Sometimes brutal, sometimes elegant, always on target — Joe is a pen and ink pit bull who tends to chew through his leash on a daily basis.

"Restraint" is not his forté. Better to say he always "Draws the right thing."

Funny Paperz #4: Bestest Editorial Cartoons of the Year — 2005 is a 100 page "pink belly for pundits" on the following topics:

• War & Peace
  
• Fighting City Hall
  
• Crime & Punishment
  
• Entertainment News
  
• The Homeless
  
• Local Views
  
• The Middle East
  
• National Headlines
  
• Property Rights
  
• Holidays
  
• Memorials & Tributes
  
• Social Security
  

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Celebrity Reviews!

The Nation:
"Joe has more truth in his pen, than Bill O'Reilly could muster with a thousand "falaffels", and more integrity than Limbaugh could ever envision, in the most intense of oxycontin orgies."
- Eric Blumrich/BUSHFLASH.COM

The Neighborhood:
"The cartoons reveal the ambiance of the area, adding credibility to his other local cartoons. They prove he is an insider… having street cred adds import addressing local concerns… and quality of life."
- Stuart Rapeport/AAEC

The Nannygoats:
"Future generations will finally recognize his moustachioed genius…"
- JP Trostle/AAEC

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About the Author

Pulitzer Prize Nominee, Joe King designs both the product and packaging for a wide variety of specialty items. Inducted into the Southern California Cartoonists Society chapter of the National Cartoonist Society in 1991, he is currently in production of several self-syndicated comics distributed worldwide under the banner of his publishing forge: www.FUNNYPAPERZ.com.

Volume #4 of this series, Funny Paperz follows Joe's membership in AAEC, the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists — where Joe has been invited as an honored guest by the National Press Club as selections from his newest book were auctioned in Washington, DC to benefit their annual "Cartoons & Cocktails".

With more than 2,000,000 visitors to his website to date, Joe is being laughed at in more than 20 different countries.

An honorary graduate of Platt College, he has been a guest speaker there, at the Pasadena Art Center School Of Design, and the Palos Verdes Art Institute. He is the founder of "Imagine Nations" a global online community of amateur and professional cartoonists dedicated to freedom of thought. You can follow Joe's daily scribbles as the Political Cartoonist for the Santa Monica Daily Press.

Besides playing hooky more than the other Dads, his kids think the most bitchin' trophy atop his drawing board is the Elephant Key he won as a child in the San Francisco Chronicle's Junior Art Champion contest. Too young to enter — he lied about his age — and won. Today Joe lies about any number of things — except this…

He can be found any evening with Angela, the love of his life as they walk along the South Bay shore.

Joe is the author of the Funny Paperz editorial cartoon series, also available from Trafford Publishing: Funny Paperz #1: Bestest Editorial Cartoons of the Year — 2002, Funny Paperz #2: Bestest Editorial Cartoons of the Year — 2003, and Funny Paperz #3: Bestest Editorial Cartoons of the Year — 2004. As well, he has just published Rust & Wrinkles: Growing Old Together.

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