Customer Reviews

License To Dream

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For a comic whose subject matter is devoted to the cutesy foibles of little pasquale and his mom and dad, Rose is Rose contains astonishingly complex and emotionally detailed characters. The humor is crammed with subtle intelligence and the artwork is exploratory and stimulating to look at all by itself. I am someone who has a low threshhold for smarm, but somehow the inhabitants in pasquale's little world have gotten under my skin and make me feel all warm and fuzzy./

Let Pat Brady give you a peek into the lives
Rose Gumbo and family in a License to Dream!
This book presents everyday life in a typical
household in a not-so-typical manner.

Rose is a housewife and mother who has a alter
ego of a biker chick. Jimbo is the father who
is still little boy at times.
Pasquale is a child with his own guardian
angel and Peekboo is a cat who is constantly
amazed by the antics of his humans.

A License to Dream will give you chuckle when
you read it and perhaps inspire some dreams
of your own!

A Rose is Rose collection to please any fan. This book pays particluar attention to Pasquale's Dream Ship and his adventures in it and also features 2 strips featuring the Amazing Perplexkin which crack me up everytime. This and "She's a Momma not a Movie Star" are must reads.

It's amazing what Pat Brady can do with an inflexible little rectangular panel. Even more amazing is that he never seems to "phone it in"--every strip seems to be drawn with more enthusiasm than the one before. Given how so many of our greatest comic artists (Waterson, Breathed and even Larson) retired young because they felt they couldn't avoid getting stale, "Rose Is Rose" should be given an award for being as fresh as the day it was created.

For that matter, set down your copy of "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" and pick up this instead. You'll probably learn more about relationships, parenting, and just getting along from it than you will from any ten best-selling pop-psych books.

So, why didn't I give it a 5-star rating? The Sunday strips aren't in color. Simple as that. There are good financial reasons for this, I'm sure, but it does detract.

I'm a long time fan of Rose is Rose (hi Pat, remember me?)... I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading the script and especially to those whose newspaper don't carry it <like mine>... I've always loved the strip because of the artwork and the humor. The different perspective in which the artwork is drawn is definitely what I love about it. And the humor and other things is light hearted. Anyway, buy this book it's great! :)

This is a collection of Rose Is Rose comic strips, one of the few decent ones not to appear in the Washington Post (along with Foxtrot and maybe Funky Winkerbean). They're a bit sappy at times: son Pasquale has a helpful guardian angel and is too good to be believed. On the other hand, the artwork is excellent and some of the ideas superb. Rose, the mother, has recurring fantasies of being a biker babe, which are brought out at odd moments. Dad is a great tease, at one point getting onto his knees with his shoes under them and telling Pasquale that he got that way because he didn't eat his vegetables. Certainly very entertaining.