Product Description

YOU CAN'T SAY BOOBS ON SUNDAY is the second collection of the internationally syndicated cartoon Stone Soup, a funny, irreverent, sympathetic comic strip read by 6 million people every day. This 192 page collection is the second in the series, and covers about 2 years of Eliot's work. Telling the story of a non-traditional household - two single moms who are also sisters, their collective children, their mother, and their yappy little dog - the humor in YOU CAN'T SAY BOOBS ON SUNDAY is of the all too real, "you must be a fly on my wall!" variety.

The cast of characters includes Val, a 30-something professional who supports her two daughters, Holly 13, and Alix, 9; her under-employed sister Joan; Joan's two-year-old Max; as well as Val and Joan's fairly opinionated mother, who lives upstairs. Wally, the ultimate nice-guy-next-door who has a crush on Joan, rounds out the cast.

This collection also contains biographical material on both Eliot and her characters.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #309270 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review
I think it's a riot, my wife thinks it's a riot, even the guy who delivers my fuel oil thinks it's a riot. Trust me, you will too. -- John McPherson creator of Close to Home

Jan Eliot began as an overworked single mom, became a talented cartoonist, and is now a colleague - a welcome friend... -- Lynn Johnston, creator of For Better or For Worse

Stone Soup is a bright, funny, and timely strip that captures reality in the '90s in a meaningful, contemporary way. I love the way the comic mixes a message with wonderful wit and humor... it has been a wonderful and instantly popular addition to our comics lineup. -- Peter Bhatia,The Oregonian

From the Publisher
Stone Soup can be read from coast to coast in the US, Canada, parts of Europe, Scandanavia, India, and Micronesia. Eliot has devoted male and female fans in all age groups, from 8 to 80. Anyone who's ever had a family, been in a family, or known a family seems to love Stone Soup. From middle-age romance to middle-school angst, feminism to cynicism, carefree to stressed-out, the Stone family has it all. Readers see themselves and their families in Stone Soup, and they love it.

From the Back Cover
One of the first questions that syndicated cartoonists are asked, besides "Where do you get your ideas?" is "Does anyone ever try to censor you?" The humor of Stone Soup rarely tilts toward something that would require censorship, but the day did come when Jan's syndicate editor called to tell her that one of her Sunday strips couldn't be published. Why? Because the gag line contained the word "boobs" - which, according to the editor, you cannot say in the Sunday funnies. You can say boobs Monday through Saturday, since readers of the daily funnies are apparently use to being "shocked".

So, you will never see the word "boobs" in one of Jan's Sunday strips. But nobody said she couldn't put it in the title of her book.

Customer Reviews

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The publisher's blurb has it right: anyone who's ever been in afamily or known a family seems to like Stone Soup. You'll appreciatethis strip for mirroring the ways in which your family makes you nuts, the ways in which your family makes you smile, and the ways in which your family and other people's families really make you wonder.

The specifics of the characters' bios matter less than their wit. For instance: There's a toddler boy here named Max -- but his humor is for everyone, not just toddlers and parents. We all have our inner toddler, and we all know people who act like toddlers, and these strips are just plain funny, no matter where you're coming from. That holds for the other Stone Soup characters too.

This is a strip that winds up passed around among friends, pasted on the fridge, and re-read many times. If you need some empathy OR a good laugh, do yourself a favor and check out Stone Soup! END

Another one for the fans of Foxtrot...
Jan Eliot's second Stone Soup collection is funny and wry, with very realistic characters and a sense of humor *and* plot. Stone Soup is a family-based comic strip that fans of Foxtrot should enjoy; some elements of the two strips are similar.

Val Stone is a widowed, working mother of teenaged Holly and preteen Alix - and they share their house with Val's sister, Joan, Joan's two-year-old son, Max, and Joan and Val's mother. Also, in this collection, they add Biscuit, who deserves not only a special mention but a special prize - Most Realistic Pet in Comic Strip Land. Val and Joan have too much to do, too little time, and too little money...a common story. But Eliot makes it fresh and fun.

My only complaints about this collection come from the Sunday strips. As in the first Stone Soup book, the Sundays aren't in color. Also, for some reason, some of the Sunday strips in the second book are repeats from the first book - strange, because nothing else seems to be.

All in all, though, a good collection, well worth any comic strip lover's time - as is Eliot's explanation of the title in her preface.