B.C. Life Is a 50p Paperback

by Johnny Hart

Book by Hart, Johnny

Genres: Humor, Comics, Comedy, Cartoon, Graphic Novels Comics, Fiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

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There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name

John Lewis Hart, also known as Johnny Hart, was an American cartoonist noted as the creator of the comic strip B.C. and co-creator (with Brant Parker) of the strip The Wizard of Id. Hart was recognized with several awards, including five from the National Cartoonists Society, and the Swedish Adamson Award. In his later years, he sparked controversy by incorporating overtly Christian themes and messages into the strips.

Reviews

[Katt Hansen · Rating 4 out of 5]

My version of this is actually "Life is a Seventy-five cent paperback" though it appears to be the same book. No matter how you cut it, Johnny Hart makes caveman times fun to read about. There's a lot of ant jokes in this volume and there isn't anything as deeply philosophical as sometimes these comics get, but this book is still a fun one to find, that I enjoyed reading.

[Scott · Rating 4 out of 5]

Coming out in 1975 with strips from 1970 – in this case on the individual strip they left the date it ran so we know that the strips here ran from May 26 up to October 10, 24 weeks in all, during which 144 dailies would have come out. So the 125 day’s worth in this collection are about 87% of the strips for that period, a pretty good representation as paperback comics collections go, considerably better than some. Hart’s in good form here, genuinely funny as usual.

[blake · Rating 3 out of 5]

Still looking for a strip. The noteworthy thing about this is that it began as Life is a 75¢ Paperback and went to 95¢, $1.25, $1.75, and $1.95, which I think was the final printing.

Inflation is a bitch.

[Michael P. · Rating 4 out of 5]

More inventive humor with the BC crowd, usual caviat included.

[Calista · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too punny.

[Myron M · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some amusing wordplay, some delightfully dated sexism, some just plain weirdness, and a clunker or two. Good stuff.

[Iain Watson]

Life Is a 60p Paperback (Coronet Books) by Johnny Hart (1977)