Reviews for An Orgy of Playboy's Eldon Dedini

The average rating for An Orgy of Playboy's Eldon Dedini based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-10-04 00:00:00 Lowell Holway While Eldon's cartoons themselves easily rank a 5 out of 5 stars, I was somewhat disappointed in this book's lack of focus on the man himself, rather than the cartoons. Only perhaps 10 of the 220 pages are devoted to biography...the rest is all cartoons. I should add that I'm reading only the book (the accompanying CD is vanished) and that it's possible this lack is fleshed out on the disc, but I'm more of a book person than a cd person anyway...if I'd wanted to watch a CD I would have bought a movie. I like my books to be books. And, back to the book, I was also bothered by how Dedini's cartoons were gathered into themes. I wish cartoon editors would cease that annoying system of compilation. If I'm reading a themed section of cartoons entitled, "Parents and Offspring" then I know that, without doubt, the next page will hold a cartoon of that theme. And that robs cartoons / gags/ jokes of their spontaneity. Humor is largely based on catching you off guard, twisting expectations, and any attempt to categorize humor necessarily robs a reader of that element. But, man, them's some beautiful cartoons.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-11-17 00:00:00 Nate Biazy (More pictures at parkablogs.com) Besides Playboy, Eldon Dedini has worked for Disney, Esquire and New Yorker. An Orgy of Playboy's Eldon Dedini is filled with over 200 cartoons drawn by Eldon Dedini for Playboy magazine. His work is raunchy and humorous, but never pornographic. The watercolour is really colourful and his ladies curvy. Unfortunately I wasn't able to catch all the jokes inside. There's also a section of cartoons created in the style of Ukiyo-e, Japanese woodblock print. The accompanying DVD that comes with the book has a wonderful documentary on the cartoonist and his family. This book is a nice tribute to Eldon Dedini.