Michael Alexander Kahn is the co-author ofMay it Amuse the Court- a
political cartoon history of the Supreme Court and the
Constitutionand more than a dozen scholarly articles on the
Presidency and the Supreme Court. He has assembled one of the
country's leading collections of political cartoons, which has been
featured in numerous magazine articles and in an exhibit at the
Grolier Club in New York in 2007. He is a frequent lecturer on the
significance of political cartoon art and has developed educational
materials based on the art for teaching on the university and high
school levels and in museum programs.
Richard Samuel West is the author of several books on American
political cartooning, the most recent being Iconoclast in Ink- The
Political Cartoons of J. N. "Ding" Darling(2012), and the editor of
four collections of political cartoons. He was the founder and
editor of ,em>Target- The Political Cartoon Quarterly
(1981-1987), and the political cartoon editor ofInks, the Magazine
of Cartooning, published by Ohio State University (1994-1997). He
is the owner of Periodyssey, located in Easthampton, Massachusetts,
which buys and sells significant and unusual American periodicals.
"Richly illustrated, edifying and expertly curated...[a]
mesmerizing compendium of full-color political caricature." -The
Wall Street Journal "Many of Puck's issues remain bang up to date,
if sometimes mutated." -The Daily Beast "What Fools These Mortals
Be!," is a glorious compilation of some of the magazine's best
cartoons of a distinctly (wait for it) puckish nature. IDW
Publishing, along with Dean Mullaney's Library of American Comics,
have produced yet another brilliant volume that deserves to be
lovingly displayed on bookshelves and coffee tables." -The
Washington Times
"One of the outstanding books of the year" -Print Magazine
"It is hard to overestimate the political influence of
Puck...during the last two decades of the 19th Century. It was
greater than all newspapers combined." --Stephen Hess, The
Ungentlemanly Art "[Puck] created a genre and established a
tradition." -- David Sloane, American Humor Magazine and Comic
Periodicals
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