University Squared: The Angry Years [Paperback]

Frank Cho (Author, Artist)

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Insight Studios Group (June 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1889317020
• ISBN-13: 978-1889317021
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,295,779 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Funny animals aren't just for kids anymore!, December 14, 2001

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Daniel V. Reilly (Upstate New York, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: University Squared: The Angry Years (Paperback)

I've been a fan of Liberty Meadows, the comic book that collects Frank Cho's syndicated comic strip of the same name, for years now, so when University Squared became available again, I pounced on it. It's kind of a weird companion piece to Liberty Meadows; not quite a prequel (these stories were from Cho's College newspaper), and although the characters have the same names in both books, there are weird differences: one character is a duck in this book, and a man in Liberty Meadows; another a lima Bean (!) here, a frog in Liberty Meadows. (It's really weird...)

There isn't a story, per se. The book follows the characters (Animals, attending school with Humans....)as they drink and carouse their way through campus life. The cartoons are much raunchier than the later Liberty Meadows strips; without the anal retentive syndicate to hamstring him, Cho can go all out with the gags. (Even the raunchiest of the strips never gets beyond a PG-13 level, though. So it is safe for older kids.) Cho manages to deliver some really good belly-laughs, and slips in a touching ending as well. Comic strip fans who find the daily funnies too whitebread are well advised to enroll in this University.

GOOD JOB, MONKEY BOY!!!!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Frank Cho is brilliant, December 10, 2001

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Blake Petit "Novelist, columnist & reviewer" (Ama, Louisiana United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: University Squared: The Angry Years (Paperback)

With "Liberty Meadows" making a permament transition from comic strip to comic book at the end of 2001, folks who want to aquaint themselves with the new version could do worse than to pick up this collection of the strip that spawned it. "University Squared," Cho's first strip, is "Liberty Meadows" in a raw, unrefined and uncensored state -- a state the comic book may take a few steps towards once freed from the rigours of newspaper censors.

Even in its young form, though, Cho's strip shows again and again why he is held in such high regard. His characters are funny, his situations are original and he doesn't blanch from tackling weighty topics or rauncy issues whenever he wants. Get this, get "Liberty Meadows: The Big Book of Love" and then start getting the comic book.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comics are funny again!, May 3, 2000

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Bret M. Herholz (Worcester, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: University Squared: The Angry Years (Paperback)

"Liberty Meadows" is probably the funniest comic strip I have read in a very long time. Now see how it all began. Very reminisent of Berke Breathed's college strips, only ten times rauncier and the drawings are better looking too. Anyone who has either been to college, been in a Frat or had a family member that has been in a Frat will really enjoy these strips. Noone has done such good artwork in a newspaper strip since Calvin and Hobbes, and Frank Cho's drawings are brilliant. Some of the characters are different. Frank is a duck, Leslie is a giant talking Lima Bean and although Ralf is pretty much of the same design, he is a giant angry gerbil. The only characters that have not changed since the switch from "University Squared" to "Liberty Meadows" are Dean (a pig possibly based on Ted Kennedy) and Brandy (although in this she is an attractive coed instead of an attractive woman working in an animal sanctuary). I recommend you buy this book. You will laugh until you ache.