Although I don’t remember what it was, I can recall the first time that I ever laughed at a bridge cartoon.

It was sometime after I had spent months engrossed in every book, article, or video about bridge I could find. I had played a few hundred games of Just Declare, dipped into Bridge Master, and lost (spectacularly) at some live opponent games.

All the bridge theory and details about conventions started to make sense. At that very moment, something clicked into place in my brain.

The first bridge cartoon I ever laughed at was funny because I suddenly understood it.

It was a revelation. I’ve been a big fan of bridge cartoons ever since.

Looking for contract bridge cartoons and comics?

Here’s where to find some great collections of bridge cartoons for a laugh.

Bridge For Dummies

By Eddie Kantar

Bridge For Dummies is one of the first bridge instructional books I recommend to players.

But what is it doing on a list of bridge cartoon collections?

The answer is The Far Side.

Most books in the For Dummies-series are sporting cartoons between chapters. In this book, they’re all about bridge and how it gets played.

Plus, even more experienced players can take something from this great Kantar tome.

Go Ahead, Laugh!

By Jude Goodwin

Jude Goodwin is well-known as a bridge writer, and spent years drawing accompanying cartoons for the American Contract Bridge League.

Go Ahead, Laugh! is a collection of these ACBL-commissioned bridge cartoons over the span of several years.

For anyone who loves collections of cartoons and comic strips, here you are. Add this to your reading list!

Teach Me To Play: A First Bridge Book

By Jude Goodwin

There are not enough great bridge books for children out there.

Teach Me To Play is an older book written by Jude Goodwin with much younger readers in mind. Look around online, and you might be able to snag a used book copy somewhere.

The book happens to be visual, and readers of any age are going to find themselves picking up this book just to scan through the pictures.

Bridge Mix: The Bridge Cartoons Of Charles M Schulz

By Charles M Schulz

If you don’t know this bit of trivia yet, the Peanuts-creator Charles M Schulz was also a lover and player of contract bridge.

Die-hard comic strip enthusiasts might already have a Schulz book or two on their bookshelf or ereader. But if you like bridge, then you need this one.

Bridge Mix is a wonderful comic strip collection that not many people know about. Get it!

Out Of Hand… Out Of Mind

By Bill Buttle

Out Of Hand… Out Of Mind is a comic strip collection by Bill Buttle, a famed bridge cartoonist who has passed on.

Buttle left behind a legacy of humorous, topical, and quirky bridge comic strips. Some of them are collected here, but also in a second book called Out Of Hand… And Off The Fairway.

Don’t know Bill Buttle yet?

Get to know his work with these.

Do you have any collections of bridge comic strips you’d like to add to the list?