Product Description

Enter Stone Soup Land, Where Uproar Rules

The extended, blended Stone family lives in a household where only the agile survive. The cast includes working-mom sisters Val and Joan, 13-year-old Holly, 9-year-old Alix and 2-year-old Max; Gramma, who lives upstairs; nice-guy neighbor Wally; a Zen motorcycle cop and more. This collection features some reader-favorite Stone Soup storylines: Val and Officer Jackson—The romance continues. Andy comes to visit and stays—Wally’s nephew Andy comes for the summer, but ends up as a permanent resident in his Uncle’s life. Joan and Wally’s wedding— After years of over the fence romance and disappointment, the big day finally arrives. Biscuit falls in love with a bunny slipper— Need we say more?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #286685 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review
"Eliot reflects our culture and contemporary family life in a way that is very wise, but very funny." -- Roz Warren, Editor of The Best Contemporary Women’s Humor, Women’s Glib, and numerous other humor collections

"Eliot’s gifts are many. She is a true talent with a drawing pen. And she writes brilliant dialogue." -- Dan Hays, Oregon Statesman Journal, August 17, 2003

About the Author
Jan Eliot is an internationally syndicated cartoonist, whose comic strip Stone Soup debuted 8 years ago. Stone Soup appears in over 140 papers and is read by over 8 million readers.

Jan began cartooning as a form of self-defense when she was a single mom trying to raise two young daughters, stay fully employed, pay the bills, and still have at least a little fun once in a while. She discovered that cartooning gave her the opportunity to laugh at adversity, vent her frustrations, and find humor in being short of money, short of time, and short of patience. Her cartoons have been reprinted in many humor collections, magazines, computer manuals and parenting books.

In 1995, under the new name of Stone Soup, Jan's comic strip was nationally syndicated. She promptly quit her job in advertising to become a full-time cartoonist -- and with the quick success of Stone Soup she has had no regrets. Closely based on her own life and the lives of her unsuspecting friends, Stone Soup focuses on human relationships and the new millennium family. Jan pursues the humor in everyday life, love, parenting and the friends we can't choose -- our relatives.

Customer Reviews

Carrying On (And Carryings On) With the Stone Family...
This is the fourth collection of "Stone Soup" strips to come my way since I discovered them last May. This one takes it almost up to where I joined in with the daily releases. I'm happy to have a lot of laughs, and to learn something more about the goings on among them.

There's something for everybody in "Stone Soup." There's Val, who's the glue of the whole strip. She struggles with an awful job while raising her devil children Holly and Alix, dealing with her live-in sister Joan and her two-year-old Max, and her mother as well. All this barely leaves her time to pursue a relationship with handsome motorcycle cop Phil Jackson.

There's Joan, a single mom struggling to raise her two-year-old, while her own financial shortcomings force her to live with Val and the rest of her family. She's engaged to Wally, the next-door neighbor, but has a serious case of cold feet, largely because of her disastrous first marriage to Leon.

Wally, meanwhile, wants badly to be a husband to Joan and a father to Max. But he's had his fifteen-year-old nephew Andy come to stay with him, more-or-less permanently, and Wally has to deal with all the strains of raising an adolescent male. This while trying to persuade Joan to "set the date" for their wedding.

All of them spend their time cracking wise, usually at each other's expense. In this collection, it all comes to a happy ending...but half the fun of comic strips is getting there. There's plenty for anybody to laugh at along the way.