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Title: Big Honkin' Zits : A Zits Treasury by Jerry Scott, Jim Borgman ISBN: 0-7407-1854-1 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Heehehhahahahahheeheeheehhe, yukyukyuk!
Comment: I evaluate funnies by the drawings, and, of course, is it funny or not? With that said, here we go.
In some ways, I think this comic is influenced by Calvin and Hobbes, one of the most memorable and classic strips. This comic strip is drowned in sarcasm and irony. The drawings have a sort of sketchy quality about them, something that makes them loose and very cool-looking. They have shading and scribbly detail, but are still very clear and easy to understand.
It has more than 4 characters, allowing the cartoonist to come up with many interesting character traits. Exploring these personalities is very fun to read. A boy and a girl never seen not hugging each other, a mom, a dad, a big brother, and a boy with a guitar are just some of the characters. I think this strip has about the right amount of characters.
This book is my first encounter with the comic and it is very appealing. I won't tell you to buy it, because I'm not a salesperson. I'm merely telling you why I like it.
Rating: 5
Summary: You will love ZITS
Comment: If you have or have had teenagers, you need to red Zits. The adventures of all the characters will keep you laughing. They even manage to capture the angst of both parents and teens.
Rating: 5
Summary: You'll pop with (laughter with) Zits!
Comment: In Big Honkin Zits (hey, it's named after ME when I was 16..or 26) you can clearly see WHY this strip by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman is one of the fastest growing and most popular strips EVER.
The best way to explain it is: it's on the same quality level as Bill Watterson's Calvin & Hobbes at it's funniest, most irony-laced and visually comedic BEST. Once again we have Jeremy...the self-absorbed 15-year-old who is constantly (in his view) humiliated by his parents' mere existance (except when he lowers the posture and briefly show he really cares). The strip shows things from the adult point of view but ALSO does a good job of pointing out how a teen might view the parents (his parents ARE dorky).
There are several reasons why this strip is such great COMEDY, and holds up so well in a treasury form such as this. The artists use a story-line of sorts (akin to the story-line Watterson would use where a given daily strip would stand alone but is part of a group with a theme). The shorter strips work as well as the longer ones. As in Calvin & Hobbes we often see things from the teen or parental view in the form of a fantasy (his father dressed like a clown; Jeremy with huge ears after his girlfriend mentions his ears are big).It's a strip that shows character evolution: his girlfriend finally gets her braces off; he goes to his first real rock concert; sneaks into his first teen porn film etc.
But above all it's the world-class visual comedy, character facial expressions and actual irony-heavy comedy that makes this strip among the best EVER. Since there are tons of strips I'll share one that is my favorite. Jeremy's mother reads an article that says "the average teenage boy thinks about sex once every eight minutes." They look at each other and each says "Wow." She thinks: "That much?" He thinks: "That's all?"
You're going to want to read Big Honkin' Zits again and again and each time you're going to laugh as much as the first time. SUPERB selection of a SUPERB strip that happily continues to quickly grow in circulation, artistically and comedically.
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Title: Humongous Zits: A Zits Treasurey by Jerry Scott, Jim Borgman ISBN: 0740700138 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Zits Supersized: A Zits Treasury by Jim Borgman, Rebecca Tanquery, Jerry Scott ISBN: 0740733079 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 04 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Don't Roll Your Eyes At Me, Young Man! A Zits Sketchbook 3 by Jerry Scott, Jim Borgman ISBN: 0740711660 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 15 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Road Trip! : Zits Sketchbook #7 by Jim Borgman, Jerry Scott ISBN: 0740738143 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Busted,Zits Sketchbook #6 by Jim Borgman, Jerry Scott ISBN: 0740726757 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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