Nuts

by Gahan Wilson

Book Overview

Remember how baffling, terrifying, and sad childhood really was? Now you can laugh at it.

In this thematically and narratively linked series of one-page stories originally published in the National Lampoon's "Funny Pages" section throughout the 1970s, the master of the macabre eschewed his usual ghouls, vampires, and end-of-the-world scenarios for a wry, pointed look at growing up normal in the real, yet endlessly weird world. This is essentially...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606994549
• ISBN13: 9781606994542
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.2" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

Customer Reviews

Beautifully-Drawn, Warm, Funny Comic Strip Kid Adventures

This is one of my favorite books! Gahan Wilson has a wonderful drawing style, and is well-known for his imaginative, slightly macabre sense of humor. But when you see his one panel cartoons and illustrations, you always want more. Well, here's more! This is a dense collection of wonderful comic strip stories Wilson did in the 70's. They are about a pre-teen "Kid," and capture boyhood better than just about anything else I've ever read. The Kid is an only child, growing up in a big city. There is great honesty here, with the kid saying (to himself) swear words and imagining those horrible things we all imagined when we were small and easily terrified. Neither condescending nor obnoxious, these strips are gentle, warm and genuinely funny. And, course, they are beautifully drawn. The Kid reads comics, gets sick, build model planes, goes to a relative's funeral, visits the scene of a recent murder, goes to the matinee, and generally has a great set of universal adventures. Especially for this volume Wilson has drawn full pages like "The Sick Bed," 'Mr. Schultz's Cigar Store." I can't believe this book is out of print. A smart publisher could bring this back and do well with it. Will appeal to fans of LYNDA BARRY.