What's So Funny? - by David Sipress (Hardcover)

From a longtime New Yorker staff cartoonist comes an evocative family memoir, a love letter to New York City, and a delightful exploration of the origins of creativity--richly interleaved with the author's witty, beloved cartoons.

David Sipress's engaging and illuminating memoir will clarify what dark forces are at work when it comes to becoming a cartoonist rather than a podiatrist, a billionaire tech mogul, or someone who is deeply into collecting owl figurines.

With wry and brilliantly observed prose, Sipress paints his hapless place in the family, from tricking his unreliable older sister into rocketing his pet turtle out his twelfth-floor bedroom window to walking away from a Harvard PhD program in Russian history to begin his life as a professional cartoonist.

Sipress's cartoons appear in the story with spot-on precision, inducing delightful Aha! moments in answer to the perennial question aimed at cartoonists: Where do you get your ideas? This droll, emotionally bare memoir by the longtime New Yorker cartoonist is a master class in how artists can use their personal lives to fortify their work.

Don't miss out on this hilarious and heartwarming read!