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Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants (Volume 4) Paperback – October 1, 2013

by The Oatmeal (Author), Matthew Inman (Author)

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Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants is the second variety comic collection and fourth book from the comedic mastermind behind TheOatmeal.com, Matthew Inman. Classics from the website, including “Dear Sriracha Rooster Sauce,” “What It Means When You Say Literally,” and “What We Should Have Been Taught in Our Senior Year of High School,” are featured alongside never-before-seen works of epic hilarity that will delight veteran and newbie Oatmeal fans alike.

Matthew Inman’s first collection of The Oatmeal.comspent six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and sold 200,000 copies. This pivotal and influential comic collection titled 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth introduced Samurai sword-wielding kittens and informed us on how to tell if a velociraptor is having pre-marital sex. Matthew's cat-themed collection How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You is a #1 New York Times bestseller with more than half a million copies in print. Now with Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants, Inman offers a delicious, tantalizing follow-up featuring all new material that has been posted on the site since the publication of the first book plus never-before-seen comics that have not appeared anywhere. As with every Oatmeal collection, there is a pull-out poster at the back of the book.

In this second collection of over 50 comics, you'll be treated to the hilarity of "The Crap We Put Up with Getting On and Off an Airplane," "Why Captain Higgins Is My Favorite Parasitic Flatworm," "This Is How I Feel about Buying Apps," "6 Things You Really Don't Need to Take a Photo of," and much more. Along with lambasting the latest culture crazes, Inman serves up recurrent themes such as foodstuffs, holidays, e-mail, as well as technological, news-of-the-day, and his snarky yet informative comics on grammar and usage. Online and in print, The Oatmealdelivers brilliant, irreverent comic hilarity.

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"The utter relevance and poignancy of these often deceptively anecdotal funnies make Inman a Gary Larson for the iPad generation." (Publishers Weekly)

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“Matt is the first native stand-up comic of the Internet. This book, and all his work, shows just how perfectly he nails the pulse of the Web dwellers like me. While this book is printed on paper, it oozes what's great about the weird, quirky, but genuinely awesomeness of the Web — and Matt Inman.”

(Ben Huh, CEO of ICanHasCheezburger.com)

"If Inman isn't a king of the Internet, he's certainly among its royalty. The Oatmeal is one of the most popular humor sites on the web." (Todd Leopold, CNN)

"In 2009, Inman put his hand to the page, and the world hasn't stopped laughing since." (Nick Carbone, Time Magazine)

"Dangerously funny." (TODAY.com)

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Matthew Inman is the Eisner Award-winning creator of The Oatmeal and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You. Matthew also co-created the popular Exploding Kittens card game. Since being founded in 2009, his work on TheOatmeal.com has been read by over 300 million people.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Andrews McMeel Publishing; PAP/PSTR edition (October 1, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 168 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1449427707
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1449427702
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.36 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.6 x 9 inches

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The Oatmeal is a comics and articles website created in 2009 by cartoonist Matthew Inman (born September 24, 1982), who uses the comic's name as his nickname. The website features comics drawn by Inman, quizzes, and occasional articles. Inman lives in the Fremont area of Seattle, Washington, United States, and his second published collection is How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You.
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D. Graves

Funny as Hell - Like Inman's Previous Books

Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2013

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If you are not familiar with previous works of Matthew Inman (aka, TheOatmeal.com), you will like this collection of snarky comics just as much as fans: this is his best book yet. Those previous books were NY Times bestsellers for good reason: painfully-funny attacks on the absurdities of modern life by the budding Matt Groening of his generation (long before he created The Simpsons, I loved Groening's 'Life is Hell' comics: funny and inventive, as Inman is today).

One previous book, How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You actually became the Times #1 Bestseller. This is a seriously funny, talented young guy - who only started creating these comics on his Oatmeal website in 2009. Other books - highly recommended - are 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (And Other Useful Guides) , his first collection, and My Dog: The Paradox: A Lovable Discourse about Man's Best Friend , a funny and poignant homage to dogs.

This, his second collection of comics (others were books with a single theme), contains a barrage of funny attacks on the latest culture fads, our digital lives, and more. If you are unfamiliar with Inman, the cover comic of a bear is an anomaly for his work: it looks like a traditional comic panel. Most of his comics, however, actually look like a funny poster, with professional graphics and type, and cleanly-rendered minimalist characters. In fact, all of Inman's books come with one poster-size comic folded inside the back cover. Some of the favorite comics from this collection: "What your email address says about your computer skills" (hilarious chart with @gmail, @hotmail, etc.; look away if your address is @aol), "The Crap We Put Up with Getting On and Off an Airplane", "6 Things You Really Don't Need to Take a Photo of", and "How I interpret my beverage options on an airplane" (hint: he likes ginger ale).

Excellent collection, can't wait for the next one.

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Warning: The material is definitely for adults and is not for the easily-offended. One reviewer called it 'profane' and offensive and though I personally like that kind of material and don't find Inman gratuitously vulgar, you should know that this is R-rated material.

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WHY GRIZZLY BEARS SHOULD WEAR UNDERPANTS by Matthew Inman

Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2013

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Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants is a 2013 collection of comics by Matthew Inman from his website, The Oatmeal (theoatmeal.com). It features a large number of comics from the site plus several new ones.

This is pretty standard Oatmeal fare, which is to say, it's vulgar, over-the-top, snarky, by turns informative and relatable, frequently hilarious, and not for the easily offended. There are a lot of highlights here, including the title comic, "What It Means When You Say Literally," and "The Crap We Put Up with Getting On and Off an Airplane." And like the other Oatmeal collections, this is a high-quality book with glossy pages; the vast majority of the illustrations are in color.

Some of the old comics have been expanded or edited in subtle ways. An example is the removal of the "thankfully" from "the (thankfully) late Jerry Falwell" in "What It Means When You Say Literally." This, in conjunction with the conspicuous but not unwelcome omission of the controversial "How to Suck at Your Religion" and the online appearance of some other recent Oatmeal comics not included here (e.g., "Christopher Columbus Was Awful"), shows us a new, more constructive, less cheap-shot-taking Oatmeal. Don't worry, though, The Oatmeal hasn't become any gentler or more restrained, and it's still not for the uptight. But it's a bit more mature, if anything that prominently features jokes about bear testicles can be called "mature."

The bottom line, though, is that this is funny stuff. Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants is another great Oatmeal collection, and if you like Inman's other work, you'll like this one about as well.

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Oatmeal for all your meal-time needs

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2016

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I was a little saddened that so many of the comics in this book are also on The Oatmeal website but, hey! I'm all for supporting the genius and comedy of Matt Inman. There were a handful of comics that were for this book only, and I horde them like the greedy comic-lover that I am.

The pages are really pretty and the comics really pop. It was much different than reading them online.

Plus I put this down as a coffee table book and it's a real conversation starter. It usually goes something like... "So, D... why SHOULD grizzly bears wear underpants?"

I have yet to come up with an appropriate response, but I'm not half so clever as the guy who wrote this book. Which is why you should totally get it.

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Curtis Baker

Funny book to read over many times

Reviewed in Canada on January 12, 2016

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Hilarious book, great for a rainy day or a road trip. Has plenty of comics not posted online so that it's not just a printed out version of the website. Great as a gift like the Calvin & Hobbes collections by Bill Watterson, as it has value to be read again and again

Ruchir P.

rofl material

Reviewed in India on July 20, 2016

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funny as hell.

Micky van Gerwen

Hilarious

Reviewed in Germany on May 30, 2016

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This book is hilarious, as is normal for The Oatmeal. The poster that is included is great and people that visit my place always read and love it.

Michael

A se tordre de rire

Reviewed in France on October 23, 2015

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J'ai acheté ce livre en soutien à son auteur, dont j'adore le blog. Et concrètement, je n'ai pas été déçu : la même cohérence graphique, le même humour, les mêmes situations ancrées dans la vie quotidienne... c'est vraiment un excellent livre que je recommande à tout le mode (du moins les anglophones)

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DJ ENDO

Inman se supera

Reviewed in Spain on February 16, 2015

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Divertidísimo. Yo me lo compré en inglés porque aún no estaba traducido pero parece que ya lo han hecho. Absolutamente recomendable.

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