I Finally Graduated from High School: The Sixth Collection of Jim's Journal Cartoons

by Scott Dikkers

After more than 10 years and six books, including the national bestseller "I Went to College and it was okay," Jim is back with the new prequel, "I Finally Graduated from High School." Fans of the popular "Jim's Journal" comic strip have lived vicariously through Jim as he calmly and existentially meandered through college, a job, getting married, and making brownies. In this poignant new collection of comics, we join Jim as his adult life through his final weeks of high school, a lazy summer, and going off to college. This special collection of droll and hilarious new comic strips rendered in Jim's signature minimalist style comes from "Jim's Journal" creator Scott Dikkers after a more than 10-year hiatus from the comic strip. It features all the weekday comic strips as well as the bigger Sunday strips created for the debut of "Jim's Journal" on Universal Press Syndicate's GoComics (www.gocomics.com/jimsjournal). Join Jim's fans on Facebook at

138 pages, Paperback

First published April 14, 2014

About the author

Scott Dikkers is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of “How to Write Funny.” He's also the founder of TheOnion.com and The AV Club.

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Reviews

[K. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've read Jim's Journal since the first book, I Went to College And It Was Okay, was published in 1990 (the same year I went to college), and it is probably my favorite comic strip. This collection is a prequel of sorts, as it begins during Jim's last few weeks of high school. By the middle of the volume, Jim is in college, just as he is in the first Jim's Journal collection. So the second half of the book covers some of the same time as I Went to College, and a few strips from the earlier collection appear in this volume. However, it is mostly new content--old time frame but new strips.

It is hard to summarize a collection of Jim's Journal since the individual strips are often unconnected and deliberately so. But if you have seen the strip before, you'll meet many of the usual cast of characters: Jim, of course; his roommate, Tony; and Jim's McDonald's coworkers, though Ruth plays only a minor role in this volume.

I enjoyed this collection as much as any Jim's Journal volume, and since the strip did not appear for about 10 years while Scott Dikkers took a break from it, reading the book was like meeting old friends.