Warning! This Computer Bytes!

Your Computer

Author: Kipper Williams Publisher: Javelin Books Softback Price: £1.95 Warning This Computer Bytes made a welcome relief to the heavyweight tomes that are the usual fodder of a Your Computer book reviewer. The book is a collection of cartoons by Kipper Williams, who we are told is a young cartoonist who contributes to such august publications as the Radio Times and Time Out. The sheer number of cartoons within the book should mean that most readers will find something to tickle their funny bone. Most people will recognise certain aspects of their behaviour toward computers in some of the cartoon characters. If they do not then a friend or relative is bound to point how your behaviour is reflected in one of the drawings. Kipper Williams is obviously a computer buff himself and some of the cartoons may be difficult to understand. For example one drawing depicts a headless person sitting at a terminal, his severed head is shown plugged into the rear of the machine. A reference to a wirehead presumably although as this term is hardly common the visual pun will, pardon the phrase, go over most people's heads. In general though the gags are straightforward and at £1.95 the collection offers good value for money.