You Deserve a Medal: Honors on the Path to True Love [Hardcover]

Stefan G. Bucher (Author, Illustrator)

Book Description

Release date: January 29, 2011

For over two thousand years, heroic deeds and extraordinary service in the public sphere have been rewarded with medals. But what about more personal victories and accomplishments? Don’t they require bravery and stamina? Isn’t the quest for love every bit as fraught with peril and sublime in spirit as any martial or athletic undertaking?
For the first time in one volume—or any volume—are hereby gathered forty of the most important medals awarded in the contemporary romantic quest, tracing the path from disenchantment and heartbreak to healing, romantic rebirth, and the happy ending of true love.
The perfect gift for anybody who has ever loved or aspired to love, for dumper or dumpee, gay or straight, young or old, single or married, hot or not, and everybody else, too!

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Stefan G. Bucher is the man behind 344design.com, and dailymonster.com. He is the author of the books '100 Days of Monsters, All Access: The Making of Thirty Extraordinary Graphic Designers', and 'The Graphic Eye.' He has created designs for Sting, David Hockney, and director Tarsem, and works with a whole roster of creatively ambitious clients.
British Design & Art Direction has honored him with a Yellow Pencil for Most Outstanding Complete Book Design, and in 2004 the Art Directors Club of New York declared him a Young Gun. His time-lapse drawings currently appear on the rebooted classic TV show 'Electric Company' on PBS.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Knock Knock Books; First edition (January 29, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1601061269
• ISBN-13: 978-1601061263
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #916,657 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Stefan G. Bucher is the man behind 344design.com and dailymonster.com. He is the author of the books

* All Access--The Making of 30 Extraordinary Graphic Designers
* 100 Days of Monsters
* The Graphic Eye--Photographs by Graphic Designers From Around The Globe
* You Deserve A Medal--Honors On The Path To True Love
* 344 Questions--The Creative Person's Do-It-Yourself Guide to Insight, Survival, and Artistic Fulfillment

He has created designs for 826LA, Sting, David Hockney, and director Tarsem, and works with a whole roster of creatively ambitious clients.

British Design & Art Direction has honored him with a Yellow Pencil for 'Most Outstanding Complete Book Design,' and in 2004 the Art Directors Club of New York declared him a Young Gun. His time-lapse drawings currently appear on the rebooted classic TV show 'Electric Company' on PBS.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't Read this Book While Cooking or You COULD LOSE A FINGER! February 6, 2011

By Cottage Wood Hill

Format:Hardcover

I read this book aloud to my boyfriend in the kitchen while we were making dinner and I had just put on some eyeliner (no, these two things are not related). I had no idea what I was in for. Not two paragraphs in, I had trouble reading for all the chuckling, and then I heard him choke on his drink. I kept reading because laughing is something we really enjoy at my house, but as time went on my reading was filled with fits and starts because I couldn't stop laughing.

Before I knew it I was doubled over with makeup running down my face. I couldn't stop my eyes tearing up but still wanted to read more. My boyfriend was laughing and I'm glad he put down the knife he was chopping vegetables with or he would have lost a finger for sure.

I finally had to stop because my eyes and stomach couldn't take it anymore. The thing that kills me is not only what Bucher is saying but how cleverly he says it.

While I was catching my breath my boyfriend commented, "Somebody's been through it!"

"I know," I repled. "He should get a medal or something."

ZOWIE!! This clever little tome is unassuming at first, and full of painfully delicious wisdom. And the drawings are great, too! Well done. A MUST PURCHASE.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great gift for friends! April 12, 2011

By P. R. Ortega

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

I purchased this book for my husband for Valentine's Day and he loved it so much my girlfriends read it too. Very clever and beautifully done!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars phases of hilarious exhaustion April 4, 2011

By judith

Format:Hardcover

Recognizing the precise manner in which we all delight, defraud, defend, denounce, desert and desire those we love -or think we love - and knowing others go through the same entire procedure may bring us right back to believing we're normal, functioning folks -while falling down laughing from the behavior and the right-on-target descriptions and illustrations of true love!!!! Judith