If you read the job description in a want ad, you might think long and hard before responding. "WANTED: A man willing to change diapers that could nuke the ozone, plop down on all fours and become a horsie at a moment's notice, arise from a deep sleep for an hour to calm nightmares, and part with a [...]
"Any parent can understand why Darryl and Wanda MacPherson can't decide whether to hug Zoe and Hammie to pieces or turn them into pieces in some less loving way. . . . Kirkman and Scott are virtuosi of the world of child-rearing." --Infodad.com
Under the sticky seats, next to the molten milk[...]
The Duncans remind us of how families are created, how they can drive us out the door one minute and drag us back in the next, offering laughter, love, and inspiration." -"Cincinnati Enquirer"
* Twice honored as the Best Newspaper Comic Strip, "Zits" appears in more than 1,100 newspapers and is [...]
In the third collection of this popular comic strip, slightly frazzled first-time parents Wanda and Darryl and baby Zoe provide humorous insight into modern child rearing, tackling such dilemmas as drooly shoulders. Original. 35,000 first printing.[...]
Fitting in. Being different. Growing up. Staying a kid.A "Zits" is a comic strip about the funniest, most painfully emotionally charged, physically demanding, mentally challenging, and colorful times of our livesa "adolescence. Those who are living it can relate. And those who have been through it c[...]
Zits jumps from the comics page to the bookshelf Jeremy Duncan, future rock god, is going to his first real rock concert (Gingivitis Rules ) without his parents (hallelujah ) and with a mission in mind. It'll be an epic night he'll never forget.Based on the hit comic strip[...]
Jeremy Duncan and his friends Hector and Pierce embark on the ultimate teenage rite of passage--a rockin' ROAD TRIP --in Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman's Zits: Shredded, the follow-up to the critically acclaimed illustrated teen novel Zits: Chillax, which comic god Stan Lee calls a "comedic masterpiece[...]
Adolescence is a time of painful growth and unpredictable change, when kids come packaged in a jumble of baggy jeans, rolling eyeballs, and grunting communication. Cartoonists Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman have captured the humor of that challenging time with "Zits," in which they chronicle the li[...]
Follows Jeremy's adventures as he copes with young love, parents, school, friends, and other aspects of teenage life.[...]
Featuring anecdotes and insight from the authors, a collection of cartoons from the "Baby Blues" strip provides a humorous view of the frustrations and rewards of parenthood as Wanda and Darryl plead, chase, and referee their young children, Zoe and Hamish. Original.[...]
""Zits" has been a smash since it was introduced in 1997. It's the story of Jeremy, a typical 15-year-old who rolls his eyes and sighs at his baby boomer parents but also loves and needs them. You may not laugh when your teenager acts that way toward you, but you'll laugh at "Zits.""Mention the comi[...]
Just about every teen will find something to relate to and laugh at in this new collection. . . . Smart dialogues and one-liners match the clever and imaginative drawings."Fifteen-year-old Jeremy Duncan is bored with school. His mom talks his ear off. His dad's jokes are lame on a world-class level.[...]
"Zits" follows the life of 15-year-old Jeremy Duncan, a sarcastic, cynical, sensitive, intelligent, typical kid. As Jeremy navigates life with his parents, girlfriend Sara, and buddies Pierce and Hector, he embodies all the characteristics unique to the weirdest, toughest, and most intense time most[...]
"Bottom line: "Zits" rocks."It's incredible to think that "Zits" was only launched in syndication in the summer of 1997. Since then, the strip's leading teenager, Jeremy Duncan, and his mom, dad, and assorted friends have become a part of the American fabric and, more important, a part of our own fa[...]
One of only 18 comic strips in history to top the thousand-newspaper mark, "Zits" now appears in more than 1,200 papers across the country and around the world. Though it displays a middle-class American teenager and his family, "Zits"' humor, its struggles with youth angst and issues, and its famil[...]
Kirkman and Scott don't just have their fingers on the pulse of the modern middle-class family; they have a grip on its wrist like a mother pulling a three-year-old past a grocery store cookie aisle.
Tadpoles in the toilet, backseat border wars, emergency homemade diapers . . . welcome to anothe[...]
How do you guys do it? My sons both say you've got the teenage mind down pat. My wife and I know you've got the parent-of-a-teenager mind down pat. Did you live in my house or what?" -"The Washington Post"More About Alternative ZitsIn "Zits," Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman sublimely manipulate the two [...]
Nothing is certain but death and taxes. And laundry." -"Baby Blues" proverbMore X-Treme ParentingWhen the recipe box has more pizza coupons than recipes, or for those parenting days when all you seem to accomplish is brushing your hair and making a tray of ice cubes, "Baby Blues" offers parental fat[...]
Dude You gotta' buy this for your mom " -Jeremy DuncanMore Jeremy and MomA popular psychologist says that teenage boys fire their mothers. It's an age when nurturing moms who've spent years cuddling, tucking, and rocking their little boys suddenly find themselves on the outside trying to see in. Mo[...]