The Nutz family will never be confused with the Waltons, the Partridges, or the Bradys. But you might confuse them with another family: your own. Soup To Nutz: The First Course is the first collection of comic strips featuring the off-kilter Nutz family, where the battle for the last chicken leg rivals the Battle of Bull Run and sibling "rivalry" is putting it mildly. The battling brood includes brothers Roy-boy and Andrews, their sister and middle child Babs, parents Roy and Pat, and their faithful dog Rosco. These six Nutz make up a family that is every bit as funny and screwball as their name implies. Roy-boy teases his younger brother by telling him that he became part of the family when they found him in the woods and adopted him. But his sister is quick to set the record straight: "Don't be silly, Andrew, you weren't adopted... Dad made you out of wood and a cricket turned you into a real boy." The irreverent humor of Nutz flows from the pencil of creator Rick Stromoski, whose research includes growing up the seventh member of a family of 12 children. That experience no doubt helped shape the humor behind what is one of the funniest up-and-coming strips on the funny pages today.
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Rick Stromoski introduced Soup To Nutz in March 2000, and he's been drawing his fingers to the bone ever since. Rick is a four-time winner of the prestigious Louie Award for Outstanding Greeting Card Design and has been nominated on nine occasions. He has earned award nominations from the National Cartoonists Society for his illustration work 11 times. and he's received the NCS awards for Best Greeting Cards in 1995 and 1998 and Best in Magazine Gags in 1999. Rick lives in Connecticut with his wife, Danna, and daughter, Molly.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A very funny comic strip.,
By JBPink "jbpink" (Sacramento USA) - See all my reviews
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The quote on the back cover says it all. Basically, do you remember all those stupid things you did as a kid? Well, me neither. Fortunately, for us Rick Stromoski does. And boy, how well he remembers. Almost ever strip gets at least a chuckle from me, and a couple made me laugh so hard my side hurt. One thing potential buyers may need to know. The family is Catholic and several of the strips have Catholic humor in them. But the good news is that they're generic enough for non-Catholics to enjoy. So spend a few dollars for some very good G-rated laughs.
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a wonderful comic find,
By Josh Bozeman (Evansville, IN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Soup to Nutz: The First Course (Paperback)
Soup to Nutz is the best comic strip I've ever read. The book is full of this wonderful comic find. I discovered it on a comics website months ago and have been reading it everyday since. The children are adorable, especially Andrew...the character designs are just so creative and refreshing. Very funny stuff, sometimes laugh out loud funny, sometimes worth a chuckle, the misadventures of the kids are always entertaining.
A strip that is suitable for the whole family and could probably be enjoyed by the adults as well as the kids. I am amazed at how anyone could make such a great comic each and every day. If you're a comic strip fan, or someone who has just started reading comics on a regular basis- this is one of the best out there, and you'll be glad you discovered it.
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Every page a winner!,
By T..M. Strait (Blackshear, GA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Soup to Nutz: The First Course (Paperback)
If you don't normally read the cartoon strips in the newspaper, Soup to Nutz is the very best of what you've been missing. I have yet to read a page of this book where at least one cartoon didn't leave me laughing out loud, desperatly finding others to share the hilarity with.This by far is the best cartoon strip of the new century. Not only excellent family humor, but brilliant, subtle social and political commentary. Our local paper also carries Mallard Fillmore, and after enduring it's sledgehammer approach, Soup to Nutz is a tremendous breath of fresh air that even surpasses Doonesbury. I anxiously await the second course!
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I'm not supposed to tell you, but you were adopted...Mom and Dad found you in the woods when you were a baby.... Read the first page New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
I'm not supposed to tell you, but you were adopted...Mom and Dad found you in the woods when you were a baby.... Read the first page New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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