Cats and deadpan visual absurdity made B. Kliban one of the most recognisable cartoonists of his generation. Kliban’s cartoon books turn cats, people and ordinary objects into deadpan visual absurdity. Cat collects the drawings that made his broad-striped, mischievous cats widely recognisable: they eat, dance, stare, misbehave and occupy surreal situations without becoming sentimental pets. Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head and Other Drawings, Whack Your Porcupine and later collections range beyond cats into single-panel jokes, strange creatures and deliberately illogical scenes. Kliban’s line is loose and instantly readable, while captions often push a perfectly ordinary image into nonsense. These are browsing books rather than continuous narratives. The strongest shelf associations are cartoon collections, cat humour, visual absurdism and gift books, with a sensibility that anticipates some of Gary Larson’s stranger single-panel comedy. Read more Less
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