Product Description

Dude! You gotta' buy this for your mom!" --Jeremy Duncan

A popular psychologist says that teenage boys fire their mothers. It's an age when nurturing moms who've spent years cuddling, tucking, and rocking their little boys suddenly find themselves on the outside trying to see in. Most moms and sons do not make the transition gracefully.

Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman are trying something different with this collection of their phenomenally successful comic strip, Zits. They have combed through more than 10 years of strips and selected more than 200 of the most popular of the Mom/Son themed strips into one book.

"The idea is to provide a more focused look at the dynamic that drives almost all of the mountain of Zits e-mail and letters we receive every month," says Scott. Borgman adds, "If moms can stop what they're doing long enough to discover this book, we think they'll find a lot of comfort (and laughs) in seeing that their struggles with their grunting, slouching, uncommunicative, sloppy, and ultimately incomprehensible sons are universal.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #51794 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

About the Author
Jerry Scott is the writing side of Zits and Baby Blues and has received a Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year by the National Cartoonists Society. He lives in coastal central California.

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.

Customer Reviews

Interesting - but actually a collection of previous works
This is essentially a group of previous strips that focus on Connie, rather than an original compilation. It's a nice retrospective, but a waste of money for those who already have the other compilations.

A MUST for parents of teenage sons
As the mother of a 13-year-old who is in the process of "firing" his mother, I can strongly relate to many of the strips in this book. Sometimes the similarities, while funny, are so close to discussions that have happened in our house that it's a bit unsettling! This is NOT just for moms either - there's plenty of hilarious "you are not alone" strips for ALL parents of teenager sons.

This guy knows teenage boys
I enjoy reading the Zits comic everyday. This guy has teenage boys to a T. Some comics I read, I can swear he was spying in my house.