Last Laughs Signed by Mort Gerberg

We've all got to depart this world sometime but while we're here we might as well try to enjoy our mortal predicament. Last Laughs: Cartoons About Aging, Retirement...and the Great Beyond is an anthology of cartoons that's sure to help. The book was published in 2007—no volume is too timely for this blog—and a copy seen on eBay is signed by the editor, cartoonist Mort Gerberg. The cover cartoon is by Arnie Levin. Surely aging and death are great universal topics for cartoons, but just what is so funny about retirement?

Inscribed "Best Wishes.
Mort Gerberg"

Mort Gerberg
eBay Listing Ended April 17, 2016

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Mort Gerberg
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Mort Gerberg
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Barbara's Copy of Last Laughs

Reader David from Manhattan has sent photographs of the collection Last Laughs: Cartoons About Aging, Retirement...and the Great Beyond signed by three New Yorker cartoonists. Marisa Acocella Marchetto has signed it with her usual drawing of a shoe, one she uses practically as a monogram or personal logo. The late Jack Ziegler has inscribed the book "For Barbara, Best Wishes..." while editor Mort Gerberg wrote "Best wishes Barb[a]ra—Thanks for remembering the piano...." The piano? David reports snagging this copy of the book recently for a very reasonable $10.

Mort Gerberg, editor
Last Laughs: Cartoons About Aging, Retirement...and the Great Beyond
(New York:  Scribner, 2007)

Signed by Marisa Acocella Marchetto (with a drawing of a shoe), and inscribed to Barbara by Jack Ziegler and editor Mort Gerberg

Note:  You can add books signed and/or drawn in by multiple New Yorker cartoonists to your long list of items that can be submitted to this blog and which will (very likely) be received with favor.


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