Road Trip!: Zits Sketchbook #7 [Paperback]

Jim Borgman (Author), Jerry Scott (Author)

Book Description

Series: Zits Sketchbook | Publication Date: September 1, 2003

The world is full of issues but none so pressing as those faced by a teenager. For proof, look no further than Zits, the timely teenage-focused strip that now appears in more than 1,100 newspapers worldwide.This two-time recipient of the National Cartoonists Society¿s Award for Best Newspaper Comic Strip follows the life of 15-year-old Jeremy Duncan, a kid bursting with questions, concerns, hormones, and insecurities. Cast adrift between the worlds of peer and parent, Jeremy survives by clinging to his sense of humor . . . the universal flotation device of the teenage years.Creators Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman pull all of this eating, dating, driving, and parental angst and energy together in Road Trip! Zits Sketchbook #7. This hilarious collection contains the very popular series of strips that follows Jeremy and his best amigo, Hector, as they actually (okay, and accidentally) get to test-drive their van. Yes, that van on the cover.

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About the Author

Jerry Scott, the writing half of the Reuben Award¿winning Scott-Borgman duo, was the recipient of the Swedish Academy of Comic Art¿s Adamson Award for 2002. He is also the cocreator of the popular Baby Blues comic strip, and lives in Malibu, Calif., with his wife, Kim, and two daughters. Jim Borgman, editorial cartoonist for the Cincinnati Enquirer, earned the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1991 and is the only artist to win the National Cartoonists Society¿s Best Editorial Cartoonist Award four times. Jim lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with his wife, Suzanne. He is the father of (gasp!) five teenagers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (September 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740738143
• ISBN-13: 978-0740738142
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 8.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #922,383 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott have delighted fans and impressed the cartooning world since the strip launched in 1990, and the passion continues today. Rick calls Phoenix, Arizona, home. Jerry, also the cocreator of Zits, lives in central coastal California.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Growing fun about growing pains, February 3, 2004

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WFK "alt historian" (Wolfsberg, Austria) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Road Trip!: Zits Sketchbook #7 (Paperback)

At first I did not like this book as much as the 6 before it: too much of been there, done that.

But it stayed on my bookshelf and from time to time I browsed through it. And I found gems of humor and good spirit. Growing fun about growing pains.

And this is exactly what is so special about "Zits". Continue growing, Jeremy!

5.0 out of 5 stars Watch out world... Jeremy gets the van to run!, May 2, 2010

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R Schmidt (Honolulu, HI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Road Trip!: Zits Sketchbook #7 (Paperback)

In Road Trip!, Jeremy gets the van to run, borrows Mom's tires (without her permission), and takes it for a ride, getting up to a top speed of... 6 miles per hour.

Life will never be the same.

High school, chores, relationships, and food continue to dominate 15 year old Jeremy's life.

Jeremy: "I don't understand why girls obsess about their hair."
Sara: "It's because of YOU, you moron! Hair and shoes! They're all part of the ridiculous game of impressing males!"
As Sara walks off, Jeremy contemplates: "And ironically, we're mainly interested in the stuff in between."

Jeremy, Hector, and Sara at a "Fourbucks" coffee shop...
Sara: "Mmm... that smells good, Jeremy. What is it?"
Jeremy: "A grande mocha cafe Americano caramel miccato with cinnamon and extra whipped cream."
Hector: "So, basically, a hot candy bar in a cup."
Jeremy: "IT HAS COFFEE IN IT!"

High school life continues under the microscope in this edition of ZITS!

5.0 out of 5 stars Love my zits~~, December 16, 2008

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Linda Grubb - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Road Trip!: Zits Sketchbook #7 (Paperback)

I love Zits... I so see both my son and daughter in Jeremy, the boy in the book.. It is so nice to know that I am not the only one in the world that has all these same issues.....