If You Can't Stand the Heat

Judy Horacek

'Judy Horacek is one of Australia's best cartoonists and should be a worldwide phenomenon. She brightens the day with wit and intelligence.'

Lucy Sussex (Sunday Age)

'It is impossible not to giggle at Judy Horacek's smart yet dreamily inventive cartoons and illustrations, seen here in their technicolour glory in this seventh collection of Judy's published sketches. The Australian artist's observations on the absurdities of modern life and witty takes on environmental and global issues bring welcome levity to even the darkest scenarios. Read them and weep — with laughter!'

Juliet Reiden (Australian Women's Weekly)

'Every single cartoon here could be used as a thought-provoking insight into life in the twenty-first century, or taken as just a quick belly-laugh. Or a mixture of both, if you like.'

Megan Blandford (Australian Women Online)

Judy Horacek’s beautiful and brilliantly funny observations are modern icons perfectly distilling the absurdities, foibles and the dilemmas of contemporary life. Ranging from the minutiae of daily living to larger scale global and environmental issues, her cartoons celebrate human creativity and resilience and are permeated with a concern for justice and a desire for laughter.

If You Can’t Stand the Heat is a wonderful phantasmagoria of ancient fairy tales made new, of penguins, pirates and angels.

A scintillating new collection from one of Australia’s most loved cartoonists.

'Judy’s work has been part of Melbourne for a long time. It is wonderful to have her back here in the form of this wonderful collection of cartoons. What has always appealed to me about Judy’s work is not just her withering disdain for politicians, lazy men and housework, but that somehow she knows exactly how we are feeling at the right time. If you can’t stand the heat, fortunately, rips apart environmental sceptics. She does this using quirkiness, penguins and mermaids. On top of that discourse, one also gets Judy’s understanding that life is really made up of a series of boring moments and decisions. The portrayal therefore of our lives is what in the end makes us laugh out loud because we know she speaks the truth! P.M for Judy!'

Christine Gordon (Readings)

'A gathering of funny, poignant observations on the absurdities, quandaries and contradictions (both global and personal) of contemporary life.'

(Health Smart)

Judy Horacek

Horacek

JUDY HORACEK is an Australian freelance cartoonist, printmaker, writer, and illustrator. Her cartoons, with their strong, sassy female characters, appear on fridge doors all over the world. She has been widely published in newspapers and books, and her work appears on tea towels, aprons, and greeting cards. As well as cartoons, Judy makes children’s books including her most recent, Yellow Is My Favourite Colour. She also created, with Mem Fox, the instant classic, Where is the Green Sheep? If You Can’t Stand the Heat is her seventh cartoon collection.

Website: http://www.horacek.com.au/

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Format: Pb
Extent: 144pp (full colour throughout)
Size: 200mm x 160mm
ISBN (13): 9781921640025
RRP: $29.95
Pub date: October 2010

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