Us And Them
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From one of Australia's most beloved and sharp-tongued satirists comes Us and Them, a collection of cartoons that holds a wickedly funny mirror up to the absurdities of Australian society. Patrick Cook, whose incisive pen graced the pages of publications like The National Times and Rolling Stone Australia for decades, presents here a world populated by bumbling bureaucrats, self-important suburbanites, and the quietly bewildered everyman — all observed with the precision of a political surgeon and the timing of a seasoned comedian. The cover alone, depicting figures squeezed around a hulking black car beneath the stern instruction to remain in your car at all times, signals the dry, deadpan wit that fills every page. Cook's draftsmanship is deceptively simple — loose, sketchy lines that somehow capture an entire personality in a single expression — and his commentary cuts to the bone of the class tensions, political hypocrisies, and cultural anxieties that defined late 20th-century Australia. Us and Them is not merely a laugh; it is a social document, a portrait of a nation simultaneously proud and paranoid, larrikin and conformist. For fans of political cartooning and Australian cultural history alike, this collection remains a testament to the enduring power of the well-aimed, well-drawn joke.
Author: Patrick Cook
Format: Paperback
Published: 1980, Fontana
Genre: Cartoons & comic strips
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From one of Australia's most beloved and sharp-tongued satirists comes Us and Them, a collection of cartoons that holds a wickedly funny mirror up to the absurdities of Australian society. Patrick Cook, whose incisive pen graced the pages of publications like The National Times and Rolling Stone Australia for decades, presents here a world populated by bumbling bureaucrats, self-important suburbanites, and the quietly bewildered everyman — all observed with the precision of a political surgeon and the timing of a seasoned comedian. The cover alone, depicting figures squeezed around a hulking black car beneath the stern instruction to remain in your car at all times, signals the dry, deadpan wit that fills every page. Cook's draftsmanship is deceptively simple — loose, sketchy lines that somehow capture an entire personality in a single expression — and his commentary cuts to the bone of the class tensions, political hypocrisies, and cultural anxieties that defined late 20th-century Australia. Us and Them is not merely a laugh; it is a social document, a portrait of a nation simultaneously proud and paranoid, larrikin and conformist. For fans of political cartooning and Australian cultural history alike, this collection remains a testament to the enduring power of the well-aimed, well-drawn joke.