Night Shift: Baby Blues Scrapbook 23 (Paperback)

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Product Description

* Baby Blues transcends the comics page-expertly illustrating why there are never enough napkins, sippy cups, or items crossed off the to-do list.

Inside Night Shift: Baby Blues Scrapbook 23, award-winning creators Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott effortlessly navigate the nuances of everyday family life within the MacPherson household, where Band-Aids remain in short supply, tattling and teasing lead to time-outs, and every public outing becomes an adventure in patience.

* Named Best Comic Strip of the Year in 2002, Baby Blues follows young parents Darryl and Wanda as they maintain a consistent trajectory on the parental learning curve to children Zoe, Hammie, and Wren.

About the Author

Rick Kirkman of Phoenix, Ariz., and Jerry Scott of San Luis Obispo, Calif., launched Baby Blues in 1990 and have spent the years since getting the strip "just right." Jerry also writes the award-winning comic strip Zits and has received a Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year by the National Cartoonist Society.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (October 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740768425
• ISBN-13: 978-0740768422
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #207,633 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars For a Comic, Scarily Accurate, October 10, 2008

By	HesedBooks "Gifts for Readers and Writers" (Virginia) - See all my reviews

In Night Shift, Kirkman and Scott offer a funny, but scarily realistic commentary on what it means to be a parent in the 21st Century. The book focuses on Hammie and Zoe growing up and becoming more self-aware (and therefore all the more frustrating) by the day.

Baby Wren - the newest Baby Blues character - adds a fresh dynamic to the strip and shows just how far Wanda and Darryl have come in their parenting. While they showed anxiety over things like leaving Zoe with a babysitter or allowing Hammie to put a dirty pacifier in his mouth, they are much more relaxed with Wren.

Night Shift also focuses on the toll that parenting has taken on Wanda and Darryl's relationship. Through the use of flashbacks to Wanda and Darryl's "pre-kid" days, to illustrating their hilarious attempts at finding quiet moments to themselves, Kirkman and Scott show that parenting is no easy feat. But honestly, much of the book is so precise at showing what really happens to spouses and parents that it borders on depressing.

While Night Shift still has the humor that makes Baby Blues so loveable, the serious element of parenting and childrearing makes it seem lackluster compared to previous volumes. But it is a definite must for anyone who likes Baby Blues, or for anyone who might be looking for some lighthearted solace in knowing that they are not alone in the struggles they might encounter when trying to be a good parent.

5.0 out of 5 stars Hysterical, September 18, 2008

By	Laura K. Thomas (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

For someone who has never been blessed with children, I've enjoyed this book - and all of the Kirkman/Scott books - immensely. Just delightful!

3.0 out of 5 stars Book is funny - however..., April 17, 2008

By	M. Knuppel - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Do not buy this book if you already have or plan to purchase "X-Treme Parenting: A Baby Blues Treasury". It is the same content in the second have of this book as "Night Shift". A little misleading...