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mark_lm's review
4.0
Funny and sadly accurate (judging from my own life) short illustrated stories from the author's childhood.
cindywho's review
4.0
I miss the revelation of Marlys' that I used to get picking up the Village Voice at the library in the late 80s. This brought me back with some funny and sad pieces of Marlys' world and some from Lynda's. I ran across the existence of this collection in Good Reads. Yay!
voya_k's review
5.0
Wonderful for being honest about what being a kid is really like. Lots of panels I would like to tape to my desk for 'keeping it real' purposes.
octavia_cade's review
4.0
I think what I like best about Barry's work is that it's so rooted in childishness. The illustrations help with this - they almost look like child's drawings, sometimes, and I think it must take a lot of work to get them looking so apt for the subject matter. The comics here are bits and scraps of memories from childhood, complete with noxious cousins, schoolyard squabbles, and lots of random things of interest to a kid - growing bean plants, destroying toys, playing with a dog, the excitement of a parade. The thing is, it's all immensely recognisable, and the conceit, throughout the book, that the understanding of the narrator is limited is almost total. We can see, as readers, the undercurrents and implications that the kids are just not aware of, and that gives such an interesting tension - even a sting, at times - at the close of some of these comics.
It's just all very, very clever.
It's just all very, very clever.
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