The Wall Street Journal Portfolio of Business Cartoons

Even business has its lighter side and it is captured in these cartoons. While they are very funny, there is a dark side of reality to many of them. For example, the woman in a bar who says to another patron, "We finally found the American dream by working for the Japanese in Mexico." Or the two suits walking down the street where one says, "Let's make sure that if there's a return to morality, we get a piece of the action." Finally, there is the especially biting, "Our factories are all out of the country. All we produce here are very rich executives." In the long run, we are all dead, but at least we can have some chuckles along the way. Although sometimes the humor is dark, there are a lot of laughs in this book.

A picture is worth a thousand words. That's literally true with the cartoons in this book. It is a nice collection item for book lovers, nice to have it in the waiting room or drawing rooms.

This cartoon collection makes a good coffee-table book or gift. Organized by decade from the Fifties through the Nineties, the cartoons can be timeless or topical. Humor that brings back memories of changes in our society (women moving into the workplace, merger mania, stock market fluctuations) puts life in perspective and gives a chuckle every page.