Private Eye a Cartoon History

An excellent collection. It's got all my favourite cartoons that I remember from years gone by.It covers the earliest days of private eye through to recent times, so there's a lot in it.

Ordered as a birthday present for my dad who has been reading private eye for all of those 50 years, I had a sneaky dip into it before wrapping it and found it to a beautifully presented chronicle and a real must fur any private eye fan. On receiving the book, my dad echoed my sentiments and quite often finds himself laughing out loud whilst reading it.

The cartoons are often the best bit about Private Eye and I loved leafing through this collection and revisiting some old favourites, such as the Builders' Convention. Because many of the cartoons were very topical at the time, some have lost a lot of their impact, but more than one might imagine have held up through time. I also loved the potted biographies of the cartoonists and they were a significant aspect of the pleasure of this book. A wonderful present but also a fabulous book as a personal treat.

I think it’s great. Hope my friends will too, when they receive it is a Christmas gift.

Funny, satirical and interesting. Shows how much tastes for comedy have changed over the years.

I have been a lifelong fan of Private Eye, so for me that is enough. Anyone who does not buy this magazine, should buy this, as should any younger PE fans.

Bought for a friend and then I had to fight to stop opening it for another read.Worth it for the topless Dalek alone.

As a private eye reader it is a good buy reading all the jokes from the past decades