Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Adams, Scott

Published by Portfolio / Penguin Group, New York, 2007

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As new condition orange boards with blue spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Introduction; Appendix A: Most Frequently Asked Questions; Appendix B: Scott Adams (and Dilbert) Quotations. Illustrated with black-and-white comic strip drawings. " "I find that I get mad about all the wrong things. For example, when I hear a news report about some serial killer who buried forty-three victims in an underground bunker that he constructed beneath his shed, my first reaction is 'Wow. He built and underground bunker under a shed!" I find myself admiring his industriousness and passion in the pursuit of his dreams. That's clearly wrong." Everyone knows Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, as the king of workplace humor. His brilliant insights into the crazy world of business have long been on display in his hugely popular comic strip and bestselling books like The Dilbert Principle. But there's much more to life than work, and it turns out that the man behind Dogbert and the Pointy-Haired Boss has an equally outrageous take on life outside the cubicle. Adams ventures into uncharted territory in this hilarious collection of more than 150 short pieces on everything from lunar real estate to Komodo dragons, not to mention politics, religion, dating, underwear, alien life, and the menace of car singing. In his essays on Helpful Critical Guy syndrome (HCGS) and the Who Cares Most (WCM) method, Adams shares his recently acquired insights on married life. He reveals his diet secret: experience a wrenching personal problem to lose weight or, if that fails, buy stretch pants and grow a goatee. He also explains how to appear smarter than you are (two words: zeitgeist and eponymous). Adams isn't afraid to confront the most pressing questions of our day, such as the pros and cons of toothpaste smuggling, why kangaroos don't drive cars, and whether or not Jesus would approve of your second iPod. He even takes us behind the scenes of his process for creating Dilbert, showing a series of strips that he wasn't allowed to run in their original form. And he reveals why a syndicated comic strip can never show a police officer firing a gun - but a donut that shoots bullets is titally fine. Why has Adams decided to leave his comfort zone with this book? As he writes: "Every time I try something different or unlikely, someone says the equivalent of 'Don't quit your day job.' When I venture into areas clearly outside of my expertise, I hear 'You're in way over your head!' and, lately, 'Stick to drawing comics!' But if I had listened to that sort of advice in the past, I never would have done anything interesting in my life." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. "Scott Adams speaks out about .ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES: "Is it too late to start selling bumper stickers that say "I think I voted'?"; HIS HANDYMAN SKILLS: "I go through life like Helen Keller in a room full of Rubik's cubes. For me, changing this lightbulb is like figuring out how to sneak the Mona Lisa out of the Louvre. The light casing has no latches, no buttons, no instructions, no little holes to stick a screwdriver in, no clues whatsoever. I have not ruled out the possibility that it came here from the future."; MARRIAGE: "Now I'm married, and that means I have to explain myself a lot. I can no longer leave a hot iron on my shirt just to see how long it takes to burn it, then draw more comics and buy another shirt. Suddenly that sort of thing is wrong."; TOLERANCE: "Do you really need to respect the religious views of people who killed themselves to follow a comet? Or is pretending okay?; HUMAN BEHAVIOR: "The key to happiness is having control over a well-defined set of options, with a slow trickle of new options on the way, but not enough to confuse you." -excerpt from the rear outer jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
• Publisher: Portfolio / Penguin Group, New York
• Publication Date: 2007
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New