Teenage Tales: Zits Sketchbook #8 [Paperback]

Jim Borgman (Author), Jerry Scott (Author)

Book Description

Series: Zits Sketchbook | Publication Date: April 1, 2004

Fifteen-year-old Jeremy Duncan is the heart and soul of puberty. A typical teen, Jeremy is shy, self-absorbed, and bored. He loves hanging out and playing the guitar, and is constantly befuddled at his parents' uncoolness. He lives in the shadow of his older brother's perfect 4.0 grade-point-average, star athlete, flawless complexion image. Jeremy's girlfriend, Sara, loves that she can get him to do anything for her. His best friends are Hector and Pierce, whom he's known for-almost-ever. His parents? Uncool baby boomers. (Unless you're a parent. Then they are two suburban professionals trying to do the best they can with a teenager going through that "awkward" phase.)The enormously popular comic strip Zits depicts teenage and parental angst like no other. Teenage Tales is a cornucopia of recent Zits for die-hard fans everywhere.Zits can be seen in more than 1,100 newspapers, which is almost unheard of. Only 18 other comic strips have achieved that extraordinary milestone. Zits has won the National Cartoonists Society's Best Comic Strip of the Year for two years in a row.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Jerry Scott, the writing side of the Zits duo, is also cocreator of the renowned Baby Blues strip. He and partner Rick Kirkman were honored with the 1995 National Cartoonists Society's Best Comic Strip Award. In 2001, Jerry received that organization's Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, and in 2002 was awarded the Adamson Statuette from the Swedish Academy of Comic Art for Best International Comic Strip Artist. He lives in Malibu, Calif., with his wife and two daughters.Jim Borgman earned the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and is the only cartoonist to win the National Cartoonists Society's Best Editorial Cartoonist Award four times. He also won the 1993 Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year. Jim recently remarried and lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with this wife and five teenagers. He still finds time to draw for the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; First Edition edition (April 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740741446
• ISBN-13: 978-0740741449
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 8.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #709,994 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars every parent of teenagers need this, March 20, 2007

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C. Morley (Sonora, KY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teenage Tales: Zits Sketchbook #8 (Paperback)

This book is great for parents of teenagers. My teenagers even liked it. The cartoons are so true.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Zits junky, November 9, 2006

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James D. Hudnall (Scottsdale, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teenage Tales: Zits Sketchbook #8 (Paperback)

Actually, it's not fair for me to submit a review of this or any other Zits Sketch book since I am a certifiable Zits Junky. "Teenage Tales" is every bit in keeping with the spirit of Zits as it's 7 predecessors.

Top rate all the way.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Teenagers relate to Zits, April 25, 2004

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Spencer (Fairfield, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teenage Tales: Zits Sketchbook #8 (Paperback)

It is funny and the most well dramatized version of a teenage life.