H.M. Bateman (Prion Cartoon Classics)

H.M. Bateman’s marvelously funny cartoons brought him international fame during the middle years of the 20th century, and the very best of his work still represents a timeless comic legacy. Bateman was most celebrated for his “The Man Who…” cartoons—a series featuring hilarious social gaffes in which some lonely figure commits a ghastly faux pas to the amazement or outrage of the assembled onlookers. Indeed, the English obsession with class, etiquette, and order is at the heart of much of his humor. This book now brings together the very best of Bateman’s work in a single volume.