Uh...Hey...Mom and Dad, I'm Dropping Out of College

Bruno #1

by Christopher Baldwin

The first bruno collection was originally released as a hand bound book in the autumn of 1996. All books are now machine "perfect" bound which was a necessity to keep up with the rising demand.
Full color cover (shown above). The book spans the first eight months of the strip from January - August 1996. The foreword
is something I wrote/adapted/butchered (up to interpretation). In the back are an appendix (which is new to this printing), a "little Bruno history", sketches from how it all started, a gallery of other odd Bruno memorabelia, a poster I did for Bruno film which never happened, a biography of Tupshin Harper (the guy originally behind the computer venue which Bruno entered, and a biography of myself.

All information, bios and etc. were written at the time of first publishing (with the exception of the appendix which was written in the autumn of 1998) and have not been changed in order to mark the period in which they came out.

130 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

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Reviews

[Louise · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this (+ 'Bread and Circuses', stay tuned) at the op shop and thought "why not". After reading this I've seen a bit of myself in Bruno which I wasn't expecting and I don't quite know what to think of it. I'm well on my way down a path from a crossroads and I feel that's where Bruno has been and has also ended up throughout these comic strips and even though there wasn't much in the way of "resolution" for her per se, there was an ounce of comfort in recognizing a few things. Idk.

**updating to 4 (rather than 3) stars because I think Bruno's an incredibly convincing character**

[Angela Randall · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting. This is basically what happens when intellectuals don't know what to do with their lives. Apparently it's somewhat autobiographical, too. To me, it seems like it covers the same sorts of debates and crazy things my friends got up to at uni.

[Kevin Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good art and compelling characterization