Polly Wants a Lawyer

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>If you enjoy humor a </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>bit dark a tad outrageous with a whiff of the sinister and macabre</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> then this collection of cartoons </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Polly Wants A Lawyer</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is for you. Long time </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>New Yorker </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>cartoonist </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nick Downes</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> has a talent for finding hilarity down the mean streets of law & disorder. Crazed criminals corrupt cops tainted juries chaotic courtrooms schemers hustlers and cranks Downes handles all with a deft comic touch. With </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Polly Wants A Lawyer</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Nick Downes presents a rogues gallery of bitingly funny takes on our sordid world of crime & punishment.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em><u>Advanced Praise</u></em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In the venerable tradition of Charles Addams and Gahan Wilson Nick Downes-with this collection of fabulously bizarre twisted and sometimes macabre gags-proves himself to be a cartoonist with a deliciously freaky sense of fun.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-</span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Emma Allen Cartoon Editor of <em>The New Yorker</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I didn't know I could laugh out loud while gasping in shock but this book made me do it over and over...Deceptively sweet-looking cartoons that pack a real gut punch. </span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>-</em>Mike Reiss Award winning comedy writer and executive producer of<em> 'The Simpsons'</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nick Downes has never been to jail. He's a good boy.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-</span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sam Gross Cartoonist for <em>The New Yorker National Lampoon Playboy and many others</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nick Downes is one of our greatest living cartoonists. That's right he's still living.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-</span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Bob Eckstein <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author cartoonist</strong></p>