Author Description

Hot on the paws of his successful Scotch and Toilet Waterfi A Book of Dog Cartoons, beloved New Yorker cartoonist Leo Cullum returns with a whole menagerie of creatures faced with surprisingly human predicaments. Tequila Mockingbird brings us a passel of chickens and ducks, assorted fowl and fish, cows, monkeys, penguins, snakes, sharks, and others in 125 hilarious cartoons that show just how highly evolved even the lowliest creatures have become.Whether they portray two black widows chatting over tea (Of all my husbands, I believe the first one tasted best), a bewildered-looking therapist diagnosing his latest manic-depressive patient (Apparently you're a bi-polar bear), or a chicken and an egg in a new take on the which-came-first controversy, the cartoons in this book will have Cullum fans laughing out loud, and also provide tidbits of advice from the animal kingdom that even the wisest humans can benefit from. Author Bio: Leo Cullum, a recently retired commercial airline pilot, has published 500 cartoons in The New Yorker since his first work appeared there in 1977. His cartoons also appear regularly in Barron's and the Harvard Business Review. His work is included in numerous anthologies and has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He lives in Malibu, California.