Jean-Thomas Ungerer, noto anche come Tomi, è stato un illustratore francese celebre per le sue illustrazioni provocatorie e politicamente cariche, oltre che per i suoi libri per bambini. Le sue opere esplorano frequentemente i confini del gusto e della morale con un'immaginazione visiva unica. L'arte di Ungerer è ricca di ironia e commento sociale, presentata con schiettezza intransigente e uno stile distintivo.
C'erano una volta tre feroci briganti, con larghi mantelli neri e alti cappelli neri... Ma anche sotto il mantello nero dei briganti può battere un cuore tenero, cosi tenero da occuparsi di tanti bambini... Al volume è allegato il DVD "Tiffany e i tre briganti" (durata 75 min). Età di da 6 anni.
This collection of drawings and one-page cartoons by the internationally infamous cartoonist (and beloved children's book author) is a universal condemnation of human rottenness.
Story of three robbers who spent their loot on a castle for sad or abandoned orphans.
A teddy bear tells his life story, beginning with his creation in Germany prior to World War II, and continuing through the war and on to America, where eventually he is miraculously reunited with his original owner
A delightfully illustrated story of the naughty Piper Paw escaping his mothers kisses
A collection of humorous cartoons featuring frogs in positions that the Karma Sutra has never even thought of.
In the early 1970s Tomi Ungerer, the artist and children's storyteller, moved with his wife Yvonne to a farmstead on the wild Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia. For several years he lived there a life of self-sufficiency, painting, writing, sculpting; and also learning, with Yvonne, to be a farmer, a herdsman and, where necessary, a butcher. This is a record, in vivid words and enchanting pictures of the years they spent there; observing the wild animals, their own domestic flock and the lives of their dour, hardy neighbors i the small town of Gull Harbor. The result is an extraordinary record and revelation.
Originally published in 1964, Tomi Ungerer’s infamous Underground Sketchbook became a notorious aesthetic talisman among in-the-know cartoonists and fan connoisseurs, revered for its audacious visual wit and coruscating and absurdist humor, spoken about with awe among the tribe of cartooning lovers. It is the first book in which the award-winning children’s book illustrator let loose, a blast of social commentary, dada-esque observations, and existential angst. Jonathan Miller, in his introduction to the original book, described the work as “an iconography of this bewildering, centrifugal universe. Ungerer illustrates a world where things are coming apart, where the old unquestioned entities are at best provisional arrangements, loosely thrown together and never to be relied upon.” Sound familiar? Underground Sketchbook is, among other things, a relentless rage against avarice, unfettered consumerism, alienation, the exploitation of everything, the mechanization of human experience, and the public acquiescence to the worst instincts that fuel a modern economy — as timely now as it was then, if not moreso. This is as powerful a dose of visual ingenuity, moral outrage, and bemused disgust at the human comedy that you are ever likely to experience by an artist of international renown.
Presents cartoons and humorous drawings of cats that range from the sublime to the wicked
Tomi Ungerer eviscerates the 1 percent in this series of cartoon vignettes (a proto-graphic novel) that are unfortunately as relevant now as the time they were drawn and shall remain so forever and ever. Created in the 1960s, The Party takes place in the Hamptons. It's attended by captains of industry, tycoons, magnates, moguls, and various undistinguishable fat cats, luxuriating in their tuxedos, evening gowns, and prattling small talk. The depiction of one grotesquerie after another ― often couples ― cavorting through the haze of booze and caviar, with the occasional wanton display of sybaritically libidinal impulse. Ungerer accompanies each full-page image with a hilarious, hand-lettered caption, which provides the characters' names and a brief deadpan description of their social standings, creating a dissonance between image and text.