When, Where and Why To Be Funny
Things can’t get worse, but they can get funnier. No matter what genre you are writing in, humor, used correctly, can elevate your work to be more nuanced and effective. In this OnDemand webinar, Bo Eckstein shows how he works and how he incorporates humor in just about all his writing. He shares tips he's learned from the funniest people in the world on how to be funnier. There will be cartoons, there will be tears.
Instructor: Bob Eckstein is an award-winning writer, New Yorker cartoonist and author of The New York Times best-selling Footnotes From the World’s Greatest Bookstores and has been speaking publicly for years against online shopping to raise awareness for independent bookstores. Bob Eckstein’s humor has appeared in MAD, McSweeney’s, National Lampoon, The New York Times, Reader’s Digest, SPY, Wall St. Journal and publications worldwide.
His work has been exhibited in the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco, Smithsonian Institution, The Cartoon Museum of London, and many others. Eckstein has spoke on over a 200 TV and radio shows like Good Morning America and places like NYPL, Miami Book Fair, The Norman Rockwell Museum, and The Grolier Club. He teaches writing and cartooning around the world including School of Visual Arts, New York University, Pratt Institute and Yonsei University in South Korea. His new book is Footnotes from the Most Fascinating Museums: Stories and Memorable Moments from People Who Love Museums.
