{"id":25992,"date":"2020-04-10T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T18:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25992"},"modified":"2020-04-10T10:01:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T15:01:41","slug":"book-report-ziggys-of-the-world-unite-by-tom-wilson-1976-catss-by-gross-by-s-gross-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/10\/book-report-ziggys-of-the-world-unite-by-tom-wilson-1976-catss-by-gross-by-s-gross-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Ziggys of the World Unite<\/i> by Tom Wilson (1976) \/ <i>Catss by Gross<\/i> by S. Gross (1995)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/catssbygross.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/ziggysoftheworldunite.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">I got both of these books <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/10\/good-book-hunting-april-9-2020-abc-books-online-order\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this week from ABC Books<\/a>, and I jumped right into them as I procrastinate starting the next of the Miss Marple novels in my omnibus.  So let that speak to my character: I jumped right into the cartoons instead of <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/03\/good-book-hunting-april-2-2020-abc-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">naughty book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I haven&#8217;t seen Ziggy in the local papers lately.  I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s because his presence on the funny pages are just so much like the atmosphere that they don&#8217;t stand out or if the Ziggy&#8217;s syndication has contracted.  But reading through a bunch of Ziggy cartoons at once led me to realize what a sad sack Ziggy was.  Kind of an everyman, a bit lonely, a bit <em>Existential<\/em>.  Still, I got a couple of chuckles out of the collection which is more than I can say for some of the multi-panel strips (such as <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/11\/book-report-sally-forth-by-greg-howard-1987\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sally<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/03\/book-report-a-womans-work-is-never-done-by-greg-howard-1988\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forth<\/a>) from back in the day.  Some of the humor refers to then-current events, so maybe my boys won&#8217;t understand when they make off with this book, but, as I sad, I chuckled.<\/p>\n<p>I was pleased to see that <em>Catss by Gross<\/em> was not of a type with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/12\/dual-book-report-all-i-need-to-know-i-learned-from-my-cat-by-suzy-becker-1990-101-uses-for-a-dead-cat-by-simon-bond-1981\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">101 Uses for a Dead Cat<\/a><\/em>; apparently, Gross is the name of the cartoonist and not the type of humor one finds within.  Instead, it&#8217;s a number of one-panel cartoons featuring cats.  Several of them appeared in <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, so it&#8217;s that sort of dry, sophisticated pictured wit.  I got a chuckle or two out of the book; not as much as the volume of Ziggy, but enough to be pleased to have read it (quickly).<\/p>\n<p>Now, enough procrastinating; back to the Agatha Christie.  After I read the other comic book I bought at ABC Books this week.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got both of these books this week from ABC Books, and I jumped right into them as I procrastinate starting the next of the Miss Marple novels in my omnibus. So let that speak to my character: I jumped right into the cartoons instead of naughty book. You know, I haven&#8217;t seen Ziggy in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25994,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25992\/revisions\/25994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}