Point Your Face at This: Drawings

Incredibly witty!

Sometimes I could hear his voice to narrate it. So good!

Point Your Face at This is book of drawings and jokes. It's meant to look like the sketchbook of a joke maker; drawings are rough drafts, words are crossed out and corrected, notes are in the margins. Each joke is, ostensibly, meant to make you laugh. Some do.

There are no categories or chapters or anything, but each piece generally falls into one of a handful of buckets:

a) Play on words or visual puns. These are the best jokes in both cleverness and execution. He frequently makes uses graphs, charts, and meta elements - somewhat like a less ambitious XKCD. A side view of polka dots. A venn diagram comparing strippers, firefighters, and fishermen.

b) Dumb gag. These are like the type of Sunday comic your grandma pins up on the fridge. Bland, but inoffensive. A pear asks an apple if its butt looks fat. A snake charmer works his magic on some spaghetti.

c) Attempts at modern art or political cartoons. These are by far the worst. They're hacky, pretentious, and nauseatingly affected. They're the type of drawings you'd make if you were trying to mock modern art, but are presumably meant sincerely. A man stands with an angel on one shoulder and the icons for the Democrat and Republican party on another. A baby's crib with a mobile consisting of news and social media company logos. A dog poop surrounded by flies compared to a city surrounded by airplanes.

So, overall it's a very uneven and bland book. The lows are very low, and the highs aren't all that high. It's a milquetoast collection of gags, and I can see it appealing to a certain type of dad, or maybe a teen who doesn't know any better. There's little here for anyone else.