Luann 3: Sixteen Isn't Pretty

by Greg Evans

I think comic strips can enlighten as well as entertain. Adolescence is a very funny time, except when you're in it. Many teens feel alone in their struggles; I want to show them that adolescence may be scary but it isn't fatal. Finding the humor amid the horror is helpful."
Luann DeGroot is a 16 year old girl who's full of spirited personality-and agonizing confusion.

Like all teens, she's happy if she can stumble through a day without totally embarrassing herself. She lives with typical parents and an annoying older brother. Luann and her best buds, Bernice and Delta, along with a lively cast of characters from Pitts School, struggle with the euphoric highs and devastating lows that torment the life of a contemporary teen. From small events (a pop quiz) to large (a daring fire rescue), Luann 3 delivers the kind of poignant, honest, amusing stories that have made Luann a reader favorite for 21 years.

Luann is featured in 400 newspapers worldwide, and receives 80,000 hits a day. Luann consistently ranks in the top five in newspaper surveys and is often number one with female readers. Luann, the Musical , from Pioneer Drama, has been performed by hundreds of theater groups across the country.

Genres: Comics, Comic Strips

128 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2006

About the author

Greg Evans is an American cartoonist and the creator of the syndicated comic strip Luann. He received the 2003 National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award for the strip. He has been nominated four other times for the same award.

Reviews

[Jill · Rating 3 out of 5]

How fun to read about Luann in high school, when I discovered this comic strip after she started college. Nice to get the background on the characters and see her brother develop from a jerk to a hero. Bernice is one of my favorite characters--she is down-to-earth, but has let her heart rule her head in this book. A fun strip with great one-liner endings for each daily as well as the Sunday comic.

[Extreme · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hilarious yet somewhat true.