The Complete Girls with Slingshots

Girls With Slingshots

by Danielle Corsetto

The MASSIVE compiled and remastered edition of Danielle Corsetto's long-running hit webcomic about 20-something BFFs Jamie and Hazel.

The slipcase holds two full-color hardcover volumes collecting all ten volumes of the series.

Genres: Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics, Contemporary

628 pages, Hardcover

Published July 3, 2018

About the author

Danielle Corsetto created her first comic strip when she was 8 years old, starting with a blatant rip-off of Garfield called Fat Cat.She started writing Hazelnuts in high school, the precursor to Girls With Slingshots (unbeknownst to her at the time), and ran a comic about super-slacker college kids called Ramblers in the student paper at Shepherd College (as well as popimage.com).
In October of 2004, she began Girls With Slingshots, and a couple of years later she was doing the strip full-time. It’s now updated 5 times a week at some god-awful hour.

In addition to GWS, Danielle wrote and drew The New Adventures of Bat Boy for the Weekly World News, taking the reins from Bat Boy’s kind & talented former creator Peter Bagge.

Danielle lives in Shepherdstown, West Virginia in a 230-year-old house with her two cats, Smudge and Ellie (aka Fluffy and Sprinkles) and her 9-year-old goldfish Goldie. She loves sipping tea, going for hikes, and eating local foods, because she is a filthy filthy hippie.

(Source: http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/ab...)

Reviews

[Rod Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

Part One (Volumes 1-5, read 4/5/2023 to 4/9/2023)

It's a raunchy take on "Friends" as a bunch of twentysomethings deal with friendships, careers, and romantic relationships in punchy little comic strips usually set in a bar, apartment, or sex shop. It's crass and trashy at times, and you have to put up with a talking cactus, but I was pretty consistently amused.


Part Two (Volumes 6-10, read 4/20/2023 to 4/23/2023)

I'm well settled in with the characters and get a kick out of watching them slowly mature as their relationships ebb and flow. A good enough conclusion brings the crass but amusing little soap opera to a close.



FOR REFERENCE

Contents:

Part One
• Introduction
• Cast
• Strips: Volume 1, strips 1-199 -- Volume 2, strips 200-401 -- Volume 3, strips 402-601 -- Volume 4, strips 602-800 -- Volume 5, strips 801-1000
• Extras: Reese Storyline -- Missing Strips -- Softcover Variations -- Baby Book -- The Real Life Locations in GWS

Part Two
• Introduction
• Cast
• Strips: Volume 6, strips 1001-1200 -- Volume 7, strips 1201-1400 -- Volume 8, strips 1401-1599 -- Volume 9, strips 1600-1798 -- Volume 10, strips 1799-2008

[Cara · Rating 5 out of 5]

I started reading Girls With Slingshots online not too long after it had come out, in 2004. I was in middle school and, upon reflection, probably too young to really be reading it. But I didn’t care. I loved these characters instantly. I loved how it grew and changed, how the circle of friends kept growing and expanding, I loved seeing everyone fall in love (CLARICE AND JOSHUA AHHH). I honestly got weepy just holding my copy of the books (which looks nothing like the art on here, for the record—they are much more beautiful). Hazel, Jamie and co. were much older than me when I began reading, but because they aged slowly and were also all over the place, life-wise, it truly felt like we grew up together. The strip ended in 2014, the year after I graduated college, and I was so happy to see Hazel finally making steps towards really growing as a person and following her dreams (much like I believed I was trying to do). I’m just so happy this whole collection exists, and I’m sure I will treasure it for years to come.

[Ksandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

4/5 Stars

I can't believe that I first read this 12 years ago. Back then I was a college student, thinking I had it all figured out and connected with the characters at the beginning of their journey. So I think it is very fitting that reading this now, I connect with the characters more at the end of their journey.

There are absolutely jokes in here that are a product of their time, and have not completely held up as years have gone by. But ultimately, I still really enjoyed this comic and how real it feels. Even with some of the more absurd characters and plot lines.

[Anne Nerison · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm so glad I finally bought this. It was great to re-read these comics (I think for the first time since the webcomic ended?) and revisit my favorite characters. It's also fun to read it now that I'm the same age as Hazel, instead of 6 or 7 years younger. Amazing what a few more years of life experience can add. The art holds up (and it's all colorized now!) and the jokes still make me laugh.

[Kristen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this way more than I thought I would! Its nice to read a relatable story minus the talking cactus and weird cats :p