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Baby Blues Scrapbooks #34
Binge Parenting: A Baby Blues Collection
Baby Blues is a pitch-perfect and hilarious family-oriented comic strip that typifies modern parenting.
In this chronological collection, readers get a close-up view inside the home of the MacPhersons, a perfectly normal family with perfectly chaotic lives. Daryl and Wanda are deep in the trenches of childrearing and earning their stripes as parents to Zoe, Hammie, and Wren.
Baby Blues expertly illustrates why Band-Aids remain in short supply, tattling and teasing lead to time-outs, and an unplanned visit to the dentist or auto mechanic occurs just when the bills seem to be caught up.
Baby Blues transcends the comic page by fusing the award-winning imaginations of Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott with familiar family life. Inside this annotated collection, Kirkman and Scott intuitively balance the humorous with the poignant though relatable and sometimes all-too-familiar parenting scenes.
In this chronological collection, readers get a close-up view inside the home of the MacPhersons, a perfectly normal family with perfectly chaotic lives. Daryl and Wanda are deep in the trenches of childrearing and earning their stripes as parents to Zoe, Hammie, and Wren.
Baby Blues expertly illustrates why Band-Aids remain in short supply, tattling and teasing lead to time-outs, and an unplanned visit to the dentist or auto mechanic occurs just when the bills seem to be caught up.
Baby Blues transcends the comic page by fusing the award-winning imaginations of Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott with familiar family life. Inside this annotated collection, Kirkman and Scott intuitively balance the humorous with the poignant though relatable and sometimes all-too-familiar parenting scenes.
208 pages, Paperback
Published September 26, 2017
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Rick Kirkman
109 books67 followersRick Kirkman is a cartoonist and co-creator of the comic strip Baby Blues. He received the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Comic Strip Award in 1995, and the Reuben Award in 2012 for his work on the strip. He also served as co-executive producer of The WB animated television series of Baby Blues.
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August 7, 2018
I don't think I've ever found a Baby Blues Comic that I didn't like. I've loved the series since they first introduced Zoe, Wanda, and Darryl many years ago. The additions of Hammie and Wren to this comic strip family just added more craziness showing just how siblings can act with each other. I'm thrilled to see this strip still going strong 20+ years later.
March 15, 2018
Baby Blues is a pitch-perfect and hilarious family-oriented comic strip that typifies modern parenting.
In this chronological collection, readers get a close-up view inside the home of the MacPhersons, a perfectly normal family with perfectly chaotic lives. Daryl and Wanda are deep in the trenches of childrearing and earning their stripes as parents to Zoe, Hammie, and Wren.
Baby Blues expertly illustrates why Band-Aids remain in short supply, tattling and teasing lead to time-outs, and an unplanned visit to the dentist or auto mechanic occurs just when the bills seem to be caught up.
Baby Blues transcends the comic page by fusing the award-winning imaginations of Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott with familiar family life. Inside this annotated collection, Kirkman and Scott intuitively balance the humorous with the poignant though relatable and sometimes all-too-familiar parenting scenes.
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I received this book in exchange for my honest review.
Excellent and funny! Still going strong! I love this series with Darryl, Wanda, Hammie, Wren, and Zoe! Read to cover to cover and smiled the whole time.
In this chronological collection, readers get a close-up view inside the home of the MacPhersons, a perfectly normal family with perfectly chaotic lives. Daryl and Wanda are deep in the trenches of childrearing and earning their stripes as parents to Zoe, Hammie, and Wren.
Baby Blues expertly illustrates why Band-Aids remain in short supply, tattling and teasing lead to time-outs, and an unplanned visit to the dentist or auto mechanic occurs just when the bills seem to be caught up.
Baby Blues transcends the comic page by fusing the award-winning imaginations of Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott with familiar family life. Inside this annotated collection, Kirkman and Scott intuitively balance the humorous with the poignant though relatable and sometimes all-too-familiar parenting scenes.
MY THOUGHTS:
I received this book in exchange for my honest review.
Excellent and funny! Still going strong! I love this series with Darryl, Wanda, Hammie, Wren, and Zoe! Read to cover to cover and smiled the whole time.
August 17, 2018
Light reading for parents =)
May 4, 2018
My collection of Baby Blues Comics is slowly growing. What can I say? I love these books. They make me laugh, become sentimental, and simply make me happy.
January 26, 2018
Love this series
Still great after all these years! Takes me back to when my kids were growing up, now I get to tell my grandkids stories about their parents.
Still great after all these years! Takes me back to when my kids were growing up, now I get to tell my grandkids stories about their parents.
April 1, 2024
Contains parental zingers
Comic, dailies
Binge Parenting is their 34th collection, from 2016, is about life with the McPherson family, and how much time and effort parenting takes each and every day. Zoe loves to tattle and Hammie loves tease and gross out his older sister. Wren quickly learns to ally with each sibling against the other for maximum impact. And there are some zingers indeed, that decades after I am no longer a daily parent in the trenches, I can empathize with Wanda and Daryl while laughing, glad it wasn't happening to me! Enjoyed. The comments by Rick and Jerry were also enjoyed.
Comic, dailies
Binge Parenting is their 34th collection, from 2016, is about life with the McPherson family, and how much time and effort parenting takes each and every day. Zoe loves to tattle and Hammie loves tease and gross out his older sister. Wren quickly learns to ally with each sibling against the other for maximum impact. And there are some zingers indeed, that decades after I am no longer a daily parent in the trenches, I can empathize with Wanda and Daryl while laughing, glad it wasn't happening to me! Enjoyed. The comments by Rick and Jerry were also enjoyed.
April 1, 2024
I've been reading Bably Blues for years and recently acquired some of the more recent titles in the series and have very much been enjoying reading them. This large volume is printed on quality paper, all of the strips are well reproduced and some are in color. Adding more insight, the strips are interspaced with commets and anecdotes from the artists who draw and conceive the strips. Any fan of the series will very much enjoy Binge Parenting! One small complaint: the book itself is so large and heavy in paperback it tends to flop a bit when you try to hold it to read and perhaps is best read laying on a table or desk.
November 1, 2024
Book 204 of 300 ~ 2024
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I love the shenanigans of this family, and the kids especially crack me up all the time.
They also serve as a reminder as to why we aren't having children, and I am happy with spoiling my Godkids.
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🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
I love the shenanigans of this family, and the kids especially crack me up all the time.
They also serve as a reminder as to why we aren't having children, and I am happy with spoiling my Godkids.
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October 25, 2017
I used to like this series, but reading it as an older person. I don't find it funny, or cute, or even worth the read. But to each his own.
May 27, 2018
Estes livros são sempre tão bons!
June 6, 2018
I always enjoy Baby Blues. It's true to life with twists thrown in. It was fun to read the comments about some of the cartoons added by the authors for this edition.
August 9, 2018
This used to be one of my favorite cartoons
February 5, 2019
Baby Blues is just what I need after a long day of parenting.
February 20, 2019
I liked this one a lot. Think it’s because the kids got a bit older and Wren is getting more strips. Glad we get to see the grandparents in this one. :)
January 17, 2020
This was hilarious! And as a parent, also very relatable!
December 25, 2021
These strips are always so relatable as a parent, especially one of an older daughter and younger son. A fun, quick read that made me laugh out loud a few times.
August 5, 2022
3.5 stars
March 13, 2023
One of my favorite comics when I was younger - definitely flipped to the comic section of the newspaper first especially on Sundays
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August 18, 2024Fun, easy read. I probably have a different take on parenting and sibling relationships but for the most part it was light hearted humor. A nice break for my reading slump!
December 13, 2022
These books are always fun to read and help refresh our memories of parenting.
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