Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year TPB (1972-Present Pelican) comic books 1970-1985

1972 Edition - 1st printing. Edited by Charles Brooks. For the past decade--ten eventful, epochal years--the Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year series has become the definitive compendium of leading cartoonists ' views of major national and international issues. Started in 1972, the series has been widely acclaimed as a concise yet far-ranging pictorial history of each year's events. As Publisher's Weekly said, "its a great way to get the gut feeling of a year's history". Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W. NOTE: Series skips from 1972 to 1974.

1974 Edition - 1st printing. Edited by Charles Brooks. This, the second volume of the series, features the graphic commentary of virtually every major editorial cartoonist working in North America today, including twelve Pulitzer Prize winners. Topics range from Watergate, the energy crisis, and America's returning POWs, to a score of other events and issues. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W.

1975 Edition - 1st printing. Edited by Charles Brooks. The third volume of this acclaimed series offers a sobering look back at the history-making events of 1974. Often humorous- sometimes poignant- and always interesting- these cartoons are guaranteed to tickle your funny bone and tug at your heartstrings as you turn the pages. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W.

1976 Edition - 1st printing. Edited by Charles Brooks. The people, events, and issues that made headlines in 1975, including the Ford administration, the CIA and FBI, Indira Ghandi, gun control, New York City's financial plight, presidential hopefuls, and the energy crisis. Paperback. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W.

1977 Edition - 1st printing. Edited by Charles Brooks. This volume highlights such newsworthy events as the presidential election, the Bicentennial celebration, the Olympics in Montreal, the Wayne Hays scandal, swine flu, and the energy crisis. Paperback. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W.

1978 Edition - 1st printing. Edited by Charles Brooks. Combine the wit and insight of more than 130 leading editorial cartoonists from the United States, Canada, and Latin America with the headline-making events of a year filled with controversial issues, and the result is this provocative volume of prickly satire and social commentary. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W.

1979 Edition - 1st printing. Edited by Charles Brooks. Combine the wit and insight of 130 leading editorial cartoonists with the headline-making events of a year filled with controversial issues, and the result is this provocative volume of wry satire and social commentary. This collection of editorial cartoons is a pictorial history of the year's major developments. Included are principal issues such as the Carter Administration, the demise of the environment, the taxpayer's revolt, the test-tube baby, and the election of the first non-Italian pope. These are the best of the best: cartoons that all received acclaim and recognition, and even some that won prestigious awards. This collection represents an artistic time capsule of wit and humor that is sure to keep you laughing. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W.

1980 Edition - 1st printing. Edited by Charles Brooks. The 1980 edition of the Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year Series, which was banned by government authorities at the 1979 Moscow international book fair, contains the best works of some 130 leading editorial cartoonists from the United States and Canada and focuses on the twenty-five major news stories of the year. Published each year since 1972, the 1980 edition features a foreword by Democratic senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York who analyzes the reluctance of the Soviet Union to allow its citizens to read such works. "If there be no other value to this new compilation of America's best editorial cartoons," he writes, "let the reader examine it closely to learn precisely what it is that makes the government of a presumed superpower tremble." He observes that, as the Soviets apparently have discovered, "there are few things more subversive than humor." Included among the news stories covered by the cartoonists' works are the holding of American hostages in Iran, the oil crisis, inflation, Supreme Court decisions, and the idiosyncrasies of politicians everywhere. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W.

1981 Edition - 1st printing. Edited by Charles Brooks. The ninth edition of Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year follows the same successful format as the previous volumes. Each book not only entertainingly encapsulates the year's history-making events as they happened, but also records for posterity the opinions they generated. James Kilpatrick, nationally syndicated political commentator, in his foreword to this volume, extols the cartoonist's "ability to extract the essence of an idea and to distill it with shutter-speed swiftness into a single drop of critical comment." The 140 contributing cartoonists rained down their "critical comment" in 1980 on the Ayatollah Khomeini, the presidential candidates, the Russian leaders, the voter, the consumer, and all those who peopled the passing scene of 1980 to become tomorrow's history. In the more than 350 cartoons chosen for this volume, the contributors focused their rapier wit on such topics as the Carter-Reagan-Anderson presidential campaign, the Iran-Iraq conflict, the hostage internment, the American Olympic boycott, the Canadian political developments, mounting environmental problems, and spiraling inflation. Editor Charles Brooks is past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and for thirty-eight years was a cartoonist for the Birmingham News. He has been the recipient of thirteen Freedom Foundation Awards, a national VFW Award, two Vigilante Patriot Awards, and a Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial cartooning. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W.

1982 Edition - 1st printing. Edited by Charles Brooks. The 1982 edition contains more than 360 editorial cartoons reflecting the best efforts of 141 cartoonists, along with an illuminating foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike Peters. He discusses how a cartoonist conceives the ideas for his daily work. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W.

1983 Edition - 1st printing. Edited by Charles Brooks. The 1983 edition continues the standard of excellence established in previous editions. More than 350 editorial cartoons reflect the best work of 140 cartoonists who focused their sights on the Middle East, Poland, Latin American, Great Britain, Pope John Paul II, the economy, and an array of other issues that made the headlines in 1983. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W.

1984 Edition - 1st printing. Edited by Charles Brooks. The 1984 edition continues the standard of excellence established in previous editions. More than 350 editorial cartoons reflect the best work of 140 cartoonists who focused their sights on the Middle East, Poland, Latin American, Great Britain, Pope John Paul II, the economy, and an array of other issues that made the headlines in 1984. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W.

1985 Edition - 1st printing. Edited by Charles Brooks. The 1985 edition continues the standard of excellence established in previous editions. Cartoonists have set their sights on struggles with the economy, the world banking crisis, and foreign policy. The scandal of a dethroned Miss America is illustrated in several pages of cartoons. And the Republicans and the Democrats are at it again as Democrat Geraldine Ferraro, the first female vice presidential candidate of a major political party, faces off against her opponent in front of American television audiences. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W.