Ultimate Droodles Compendium: Absurdly Complete Collection of Roger Price’s Classic Zany Creations Edited by Fritz Holznagel

Thanks to the publisher Claudia Sloan of Tallfellow Press, I am giving away one print copy of ‘Ultimate Droodles Compendium ‘ Edited by Fritz Holznagel.

Description ‘Ultimate Droodles Compendium ‘ Edited by Fritz Holznagel

Before the inspired nonsense of Monty Python, David Letterman and the Far Side, there were Droodles. With a few squiggles in a simple square, these clever drawings created absurd scenes like “Ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch” (used by Frank Zappa as an album cover), “Octopus signaling for a left turn” and “Clam with buck teeth.” And they were all the creation of one brilliant and unpredictable man: Roger Price. At the height of their popularity in the mid-1950s, fans enjoyed the Droodles TV show, a Droodles daily newspaper column, Droodles magazine features, Droodles cocktail napkins, even Droodles in ads for Lucky Strike cigarettes.

Like hula hoops, drive-in movies and UFOs, Droodles were one of the biggest fads of the 1950s. Now Droodles make their triumphant return to delight a new generation that can use some laughs. The The Ultimate, Total, Every-Last-One (sort of !) Book of DROODLES includes every one of Roger Price’s 352 most famous Droodles in delightful new full-quality reproductions, with Price’s inspired text and quirky footnotes. There’s more: a Roger Price/Droodles reminiscence by beloved media critic Leonard Maltin, a full history of Roger Price and Droodles by Emmy-winning writer Fritz Holznagel, and comments from comedy legend Carl Reiner, Boing Boing’s Mark Frauenfelder and others.

Droodles are back in this handsome, hilarious, ultimate collection from Tallfellow Press. Droodles now. Droodles forever!

Praise ‘Ultimate Droodles Compendium ‘ Edited by Fritz Holznagel

“I’m so pleased that Roger Price is being rediscovered by new generations who haven’t seen his work before. It’s brilliant!” —Carl Reiner

“Dear Roger, maybe someday I’ll be writing for you.” Bob Hope, quoted by Leonard Maltin in his foreword

“My father had a soft spot for witches and Halloween… so the Droodle he chose for the album cover was a natch match.”– Moon Zappa, on “Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch

About Fritz Holznagel

FRITZ HOLZNAGEL is an Emmy Award-winning writer with a degree in American History and a Trebek-certified nose for cultural trivia. After scripting the CBS TV special A Claymation Easter, Fritz jumped into the early Internet, where he edited the book The World Wide Web Top 1000 and then created the Lycos 50 — the first daily feature to track the popularity and mysteries of web searches. He also is co-creator and editor of Who2, one of the web’s oldest biography sites.

Fritz has written for clients ranging from Google to The Dictionary of American History to Where in the U.S.A. is Carmen Sandiego? A lover of fun facts, he won the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions in 1995 and represented the USA in the first-ever Jeopardy! Olympic Tournament.

About Roger Price

Roger Price’s  Droodles  books sold more than 1 million copies between their debut in 1953 and his death in 1990. His Mad Libs have sold more than 150 million copies (and counting!) since he co-created them with Leonard Stern in 1958. Price’s career was packed with other landmarks: touring Europe with Bob Hope, appearing with Steve Allen on the original Tonight Show, doing standup comedy at the Village Vanguard and publishing the cultural critiques In One Head and Out the??Other and The Great Roob Revolution. Always funny and often provocative, Price was one of America’s most original comic voices.

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