Five books after the popular comic strip Jim's Journal was first bound, we now present The Pretty Good Jim's Journal Treasury-and it's okay. Actually, this collection is much more than okay. Comprehensive, featuring Jim's life as it progressed (or not) through his first five books, this special edition contains previously unpublished material including Jim in living color. No longer in syndication, the complete works of Jim's Journal will be a definitive must-have collection. College students rave about Jim's Journal, making it one of the most popular Generation X-oriented strips in history. Readers have grown along with Jim, as he moved from copy-store to grocery-store clerk, feigned interest in stamp collecting, faced frequent harassment from phone companies wanting him to switch his long distance service, and finally got married. From the beginning, Jim's message has been "Aren't comics dumb-even this one?" Yet even though it pokes fun at itself, the strip extols the virtues of a slacker lifestyle: Jim has a menial job, a cat, and a few friends. He doesn't do much. In fact, Jim's Journal was slacker before slacker was cool. Postmodern and minimalist, the quirky Jim's Journal has been featured inThe book collections I Went to College and it was okay; I Got a Job and it wasn't that bad; I Made Some Brownies and they were pretty good; I Got Married if you can believe that; and I Feel Like a Grown-up Now. In this jam-packed Pretty Good Jim's Journal Treasury, readers will find the same understated and unpredictable style.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Pretty Good Jim's Journal Treasury: The Definitive Collection of Every Published Cartoon (Definitive Collections) (Paperback)
If you haven't heard of Jim's journal and you ended up here because as a fan of the Onion you wanted to see what Scott Dikkers once did, then you're in for a pleasant (or unpleasant time) people are completely polarized by Jim - either you love the strip or you hate it. I love Jim. Don't bother buying any of the single collections when you can own the whole Jim Treasury. Also included in this book (and missing from the other stand alone books i.e. I got married, I made some brownies) is an introduction for each of these books in the collection. Plus you get various insight into the characters and strip from Dikkers in some revealing passages that are both laugh out loud funny and kind of sad. If you are a fan of meta comedy - i.e. comedy that is funny because it is done in such a blank fashion that its hard not to laugh - if only for the absurdity of the whole thing - then this book is for you. If the idea of a comic strip where the punchline for a strip is "when I woke up from my nap I was even more tired than I was before" leaves you scratching your head - then you should probably buy some Marmaduke or Garfield. Maybe a collection of Hagar the Horrible would be best. On the other hand, if you like things that don't always make sense - buy this book. You'll love it.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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the unbearable lightness of being Jim,
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This review is from: The Pretty Good Jim's Journal Treasury: The Definitive Collection of Every Published Cartoon (Definitive Collections) (Paperback)
It's lovely to see all 5 Jim's Journal collections in a single volume. J.J. is a cumulative experience -- you can't appreciate the strips unless you read a bunch of them in succession. After a few dozen strips or so, you begin to gradually succumb, until you're hopelessly addicted to the strangely hypnotic flow of Jim's uneventful life. Dikkers makes some interesting comments about how he sees his work ("anti-comedy" in the tradition of Andy Kaufman), and while his revelations aren't astounding, they do add value for people who already own some of the other J.J. collections. Soothing and worthwhile.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Jim is an existential everyman,
This review is from: The Pretty Good Jim's Journal Treasury: The Definitive Collection of Every Published Cartoon (Definitive Collections) (Paperback)
Even though "Jim's Journal" is written by Scott Dikkers, editor-in-chief of "The Onion," it has none of the nasty wit of that publication. There's nothing nasty about Jim at all, and some would argue that there's no wit involved, either. It's a bunch of comic strips that, as often as not, don't contain any sort of punchline, but just read like snippets from the journal of one person's uneventful life. That might sound boring, but it's strangely engrossing and comforting to read. Jim's a nice guy who coasts through life seemingly oblivious to the world around him, and getting into his head through "Jim's Journal" is an excellent escape from reality. Words can't do it justice- you have to read it.
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