DO BE SILLY Craig Yoe’s wonderful Weird but True Toon Factoids is a book about grown adults who sit at home all day drawing silly pictures—and that’s not the weird part. Weird but true! —Patrick McDonnell, Creator of the comic strip Mutts.

TRAIN OF THOUGHT Even though I’m questionably referred to as the father of Jiminy Cricket, I have yet to tattoo his likeness on any of my body parts. All real crickets look most like fetid cockroaches, but a cricket with a human face?...an entomological disgrace! Craig Yoe’s Weird but True Toon Factoids just has to raise eyebrows for some browsers and lower eyebrows for others. However, for me, my eyes are totally crossed. Has Viagra passed me by? —Ward Kimball, Creator of Jiminy Cricket; One of Disney’s Nine Old Men.

FACE FRONT Robert Ripley must be smiling down from Toon Heaven right now! Super-heroic Craig Yoe has taken the sensational Rip’s Believe It or Not shtick and done a mighty and marvelous job of turning it on the world of comics, cartoons and their creators—and even on ol’ Ripley himself! I never knew how wild, woolly, and weird we creators and our creations were until I read this titanic toon tome! But now I am a believer. A true believer. Okay, a weird but true believer! ‘Nuff said! Or should I say “Believe it!”—or what?! —Stan Lee, Co-creator of Spider-Man; and Publisher of Marvel Comics.