Zits Unzipped: Sketchbook #5 (Zits Sketchbook) [Paperback]

Jim Borgman (Author), Jerry Scott (Author)

Book Description

Series: Zits Sketchbook | Publication Date: April 1, 2002

The comic strip Zits has become one of the most popular strips on the comics pages today. The humorous daily life of parents Connie and Walt Duncan and the teenager they own and operate, Jeremy, are presented as an open book for all to read in Zits Unzipped. In this collection, creators Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman chronicle the life of 15-year-old Jeremy Duncan as if there were a camera following his every confused adolescent move. He has to be dragged out of bed at noon during summer vacation. He agonizes over and dissects every syllable of a cryptic exchange he's just had with his girlfriend, Sara. He almost bursts with the questions, concerns, and insecurities of teenagerhood, yet fends off every attempt by his mom to get him to talk with a standard "I dunno."

With its perfect blend of teenage reality and clever humor, Zits Unzipped delivers laughs for Zits' faithful readers and new fans alike.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Zits writer Jerry Scott also is co-creator of the award-winning strip Baby Blues. He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 2001 for his work on both strips. He lives in Malibu, Calif. Zits artist Jim Borgman won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning and the Reuben Award in 1993. Jim lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he is the editorial cartoonist for the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Jim Borgman is the only cartoonist to win the NCS's Best Editorial Cartoonist Award five times, as well as a Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year in 1993. He lives in Cincinnati and draws for the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; Original edition (April 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740723227
• ISBN-13: 978-0740723223
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #442,274 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Zits a-poppin'!, August 30, 2005

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Jean E. Pouliot (Newburyport, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zits Unzipped: Sketchbook #5 (Zits Sketchbook) (Paperback)

Bad haircuts, "clueless" parents, pimples, hormones, loyal and/or ditsy friends, the girl's posse, dreams of the uncharted future, weird friends, untamed appetites and endless insecurities-- ZITS is a hilarious commentary on the foibles of being a teenager in middle America.

In this compendium of strips, Jeremy deals with having to get girlfriend Sara a Christmas gift (he gets her a tire); body-pierced Pierce the drummer makes his first appearance; Jeremy, on a rare free weekend with his parents at an orthodontists conference, spends the weekend in the company of an armload of horror videos *and* his overactive imagination; and then there's Ms Butcher, the Econ teacher who truly does stay up at night looking for ways to torment him.

ZITS is constantly fresh, drawn with humorous and deft exaggeration - the cover illustration showing a mountain of CDs, headphones, calculators and tapes spewing out of Jeremy's backpack should ring a familiar bell with any parent of a high-schooler. "Zits: Unzipped" has been read and reread and re-reread in my household. Scott and Borgman have put together a terrific strip that can be enjoyed by teenagers and their parents. Awesome!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Zits on is best!, April 29, 2002

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Pedro (V.N.Gaia Portugal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zits Unzipped: Sketchbook #5 (Zits Sketchbook) (Paperback)

The 5th book on Zits collection is still a sure time of laugh. This book is very well balanced and is good sample of what you are missing for not having it on your daily newspapaer (like me :( ...).

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 5 stars for Borgman/Scott, May 6, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Zits Unzipped: Sketchbook #5 (Zits Sketchbook) (Paperback)

Here's the plot: Team two interesting and funny fellows together to write a comic strip about teenagers. Geographically situate them thousands of miles apart connected only by email, phone and fax and instruct them to do a daily strip, plus Sunday in color. Tell these guys the content has to illustrate a lovable but sometimes impossible kid and two tolerant parents, and see what you get! Zits!