What happens when a cartoonist incorporates story-line suggestions from readers and merges them with innovative artwork lauded by other cartoonists as among the finest drawn today? You get Pat Brady's Rose Is Rose - the strip that's earned Brady legions of loyal fans and a nomination for Cartoonist of the Year four years running from the National Cartoonist Society. High-Spirited Rose Is Rose is the fifth collection featuring the high-spirited high jinks of the Gumbo family - Rose, her husband, Jimbo, and her cherished son, Pasquale. We can count on the imaginative Rose, who lightens her household load by occasionally assuming an alter ego, Vicki, a black-leather-clad biker babe. This collection features original artwork sure to please fans. More than any strip today, Rose Is Rose challenges its readers to relive their childhood feelings of wonder and awe. Brady began his beloved Rose Is Rose strip in 1984. Today, the strip appears in more than 500 newspapers daily.
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Pat Brady began submitting comic strips to newspapers at age 11. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1969 and created "Rose is Rose" in 1984. In 2004 Pat won the National Cartoonists Society's "Reuben Award" for "Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year." He lives in Illinois.
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Another wonderful "Rose is Rose" book!,
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This review is from: High-Spirited Rose is Rose: A Collection of Rose is Rose Comics (Paperback)
I've been a hug fan of "Rose is Rose" for several years now and this book continues the tradition. The book centers around the Gumbo family - Rose, Jimbo, Pasquale and Peekaboo. There are a couple other characters as well - Pasquale's Guardian Angel, Vickie the Biker (Rose's alter ego), and selfish cousin Clem. The family's mild mannered adventures in everyday living are both sweet and endearing without being overly sentimental or sarcastic. They laugh, play, fight and makeup without ever forgetting they're a family and that's what is important. I think this volume has some of the funniest strips yet with Clem acting as the high priest of the snowball arts and Peekaboo's quest for sardines.
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Does not disappoint with either the laughs or the heart,
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This review is from: High-Spirited Rose is Rose: A Collection of Rose is Rose Comics (Paperback)
High-Spirited Rose Is Rose is the latest collection of the "Rose is Rose" newspaper comic strip. An enjoyable romp with a loving mother who has a wild side that she imagines in biker leathers; an energetic young boy with his very own (highly protective) guardian angel; and the mild-mannered father who has his hands full just keeping up, High-Spirited Rose Is Rose offers the reader an emotional, joyful, exuberant, and celebration of everything from life's simple little pleasures to the daily struggle to balance independence, freedom, and personal responsibility. Very highly recommended reading, High-Spirited Rose Is Rose does not disappoint with either the laughs or the heart.
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Classic Rose is Rose,
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If you love "Rose Is Rose", this book won't disappoint. Lots of everything we love about Rose...angels, motorcycles, lightweight sarcasm, daily life and cats.
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IS THERE A PROBLEM? Read the first page New!
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- Movie Star by Rh Value Publishing in Front Matter
- The Irresistible Rose Is Rose by Pat Brady in Front Matter
- License To Dream by Pat Brady in Front Matter
- What If? by Marshall Brain on page 112
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