Grimmy: The Revenge of Grimzilla! [Paperback]

Mike Peters (Author)

Book Description

Series: Grimmy | Publication Date: July 14, 2000

Who doesn't get a monster-sized--er--kick out of Grimmy? And now he's back in a brand-new collection from Pulitzer Prize winner Mike Peters. To his more than 100 million fans, Grimmy is the eponymous hero of Mother Goose and Grimm, the hugely popular comic strip that appears in more than one thousand newspapers nationwide. Grimmy is the bulliest of bull terriers. He's brash, cocky, highly opinionated, and hilariously urbane. He's the King of Tut of trashcans. Grimmy thinks a postman is the ideal chew toy. And a cat? Let's just say he's no fan of Fifi's. And his fans wouldn't have him any other way.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

YA-The imaginative and indecorous yellow dog created by the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist appears in this collection of black-and-white weekday and a few Sunday color strips originally published between 1996 and 1998. Grimm has the social wit of a 13-year-old boy so there is a fair amount of scatological content, but nothing that would deem a more restricted rating than PG. In addition to stories about the dog; his owner Mother Goose; and his best friend, a large cat named Atilla, there are occasional panels featuring unrelated characters and tales. Most in this latter category, as well as many of those featuring Grimm's cast, rely on puns or malapropisms. Some of the humor requires that viewers be acquainted with popular culture across several decades rather than offering cutting-edge commentary. Most of the selections, however, require familiarity only with such commonplace events as eating pizza and raw cookie dough, walking in frightening surroundings, or failing to do one's chores. Grimm will find an audience among middle schoolers and adults, with most high school comics readers bypassing his hearty merging of witty crassness and conventional funny paper adventures as they lack the compelling attraction of current superheroes or a trenchant third-millennium outlook.
Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

"With the stroke of a felt-tip pen she can throw a few million people at the breakfast table into convulsions of laughter."--The St. Louis Times

"Mike is the Peter Pan of the cartooning world; he's boyishly charming, good with a rapier, and he doesn't spend a lot to time on the ground. Also, he doesn't seem to want to grow up." --Gary Trudeau, creator of the comic strip Doonesbury

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Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Tor Books; 1st edition (July 14, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312873247
• ISBN-13: 978-0312873240
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,903,285 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mike Peters has worked for the Chicago Daily News and the Dayton Daily News. His editorial cartoons became nationally syndicated in 1972, and in 1981 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for journalism. In 1992, he received the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year, cartooning's highest honor. Formerly an artist for the U.S. Army's Seventh Psychological Operations Group in Okinawa, he created the strip Mother Goose and Grimm in 1984.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blows the other out of the water, August 8, 2000

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"tracyppc" (Sarasota, Florida USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grimmy: The Revenge of Grimzilla! (Paperback)

This is by far the best of the Peters collection. With it's brilliant colors and new y2k design, it takes you on yet another Grimmy trip. The man just doesn't seem to have an end to his wit and charm. Way to go.