Mad Men: the Illustrated World

Unless the person you're buying for is the most casual of fans, they should be delighted with Dyna Moe's sense of humor and eye for details. The art captures with style and wit some of the iconic images devoted viewers know by heart, bringing out clever details. We learn how to make some of your better cocktails and then how to whip up hangover recipes. (The image for the former references Sally's skill with a shaker, and the latter is Betty on the bed after "A Night To Remember.")There are several pages devoted to a Joan paper doll. Pete with rifle, Paul at his most pretentious, a stewardess making eyes at the cool and collected Don, as well as Sal, and Connie, and Peggy... You'll learn how to create the perfect bouffant, and well as the books you'll need to know about to bluff your way through a cocktail party, phrases for well-meaning squares who might want to attend a freedom ride, and what your secretary's hairstyle means.Swell!

I purchased this book as a gift to myself. I love it and may purchase it for other Mad Men fans I know. It is so fun to flip through. The fonts are fantastic and it is full of folly and flippant artwork.Dyna Moe has captured the spirit of the show wonderfully. I just want to crawl into some of the pictures and live there, or slide and swing around on the fonts.This is a perfect book to keep out on the table...much more satisfying than an overrated magazine and more cost effective than your typical coffee table book.Buy it, share it, live it.

I love the illustrations of Mad Men episodes in this book, which is the meat of it, but there's also a lot of text describing select cultural, political, and historic people and events. There are also recipes and a very funny piece by Rich Sommer about his adventures learning to tie a bow tie.

If you're a fan of the series, particularly seasons one through three, you will get a big charge out of this book. Aside from the artwork, which is very good and funny, the book gives a tongue-in-cheek commentary about many of the people and events in the series during the first few seasons. For example, "How to decorate your room around a Victorian Fainting Couch" refers to Betty's hiring an interior designer to have a beautiful living room, then on a whim buying a huge Victorian Fainting Couch that makes a mockery of the carefully designed room. The drink recipes are accompanied by a drawing of little daughter Sally Draper mixing up drinks for the grown-ups, one of the historical/hysterical background jokes in the series. Also funny are the paper-doll cut-outs of Joan, where you can dress her in various outfits from the series, including an playing the accordian.

This book is great for looking at while it sits on your coffee table- but when I actually read through it I was disappointed by the lack of interesting content. The illustrations are colorful but page after page it reads like a slumber party guide and I wouldnt recommend it for anyone who has a more...intellectual... interest in mad men. It does not play into the show characters so much as the basic concept of the era- and I mean BASIC. Things like how to make a few cocktails popular in the 60s is not my idea of an illustrated world- even if there are cute pictures of drinks. It has some Joan paper dolls (non perforated and thus not great for young kids) and because of the content falls in a weird age group. I wouldnt buy it for a young kid who simply likes the fashion, but they'd enjoy it more than an adult who lived the era and/or enjoys the shows emotional/cinematic/historical/character value.

I love Mad Men and if you love Mad Men, you'll love this book too. I love how this is illustrated in the 60s cartoon style. Flipping through the book, I could point out which episode was being referenced. This book will just make you go OMG! I remember when ______ ran over _______'s foot with a ____________ in episode _____ ! This book is cute, quirky, witty, and fun for Mad Men fans and I'm glad I purchased it.

This book has everything you ever wanted to know about Madmen but were afraid to ask. All kidding aside, this is a great little book. I just love the illustrations on every page. If you ever wanted to know how to do Betty's up-do this book will show you step by step. Learn how to make Don Draper's favourite drink and then you can play with the Joan Harris paperdoll cutouts. *please note, the paperdolls are not actual size.I thoroughly loved this most enjoyable book!

The drinks are accurate and quite potent. There are hangover remedies in here for that too.He illustrations could not possibly be any more cute or charming... even if they include pregnant women smoking (remember kids... it is just a drawing, it was only once real! Don't try this at home!)The jokes can get raunchy but fit the show plot points.Who doesn't want a Joan Holloway paper doll? Who doesn't want to sing "L'Amour ooh-la-la" as cute as Joan can (with or without accordion!)This book is lot of fun amongst adults and fans of the show... even those don't watch the show are humored by the "bouffant" directions, the drink mixes, the "rainy day games" and begin telling me stories of their own childhood times making Betty look like a Nobel-Prize-mothering-nominee. Fascinating.I would like to go the record wishing for something with maybe a Peggy Olson feature... Sequel perhaps? Because, how the heck does Crane get to write about bow ties, Sterling get a two-page giggle on Hotel Trysts and yet Peggy only get a cute image or three? More Peggy! Even if Joan is my Beloved Favorite!Did I mention three seasons of Joan paper dolls? I cut them out, put them on magnet backings and stuck them onto my file cabinet at work... very, very, very popular with all!