The World That Isn't 

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951.  [publication date: November] 

 

 

 

 

 

"....a yawping, laughing, giggling, smiling, impossible history of mankind.  It takes up the world as if it had been created this year -- complete with juke boxes, bottled soda, psychoanalysis, Modern Women and other gadgets and conveniences of 1951.  It traces the history of the modern Adam and Eve of our jacket through all its civilization-infested misery to a surprise and happy ending -- thus showing that our cartoonist-author, despite his gift for bitter satire, is as warmhearted and decent fellow as the reader himself." [from the book jacket].  

 

In true Tashlin style, the Bear and the 'Possum make cameo appearances, and the names of more than a dozen of the author's friends and collaborators are splattered across the lurid magazine and tabloid covers depicted on page 45. 

 

Dedication: "For Dorothy [Tashlin's first wife], the One in the World." 

 

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