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Rose Is Rose in Loving Color: A Collection of Sunday Rose Is Rose Comics
Cartoons follow a family of three and their cat throughout the year, including family New Year's celebrations, snowy days, summer picnics, gardening, and fall football
128 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1999
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Pat Brady
25 books8 followersPat Brady is an American cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Rose Is Rose, syndicated by United Feature Syndicate since 1983.
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November 5, 2020
There was a time when I considered this strip a little too syrupy sweet. Sigh. Nowadays, I find the optimism and love abounding in this comic book to be refreshing and a relief in this grey, cynical world.
February 9, 2014
My wife constantly picks out books to read from my library and leaves them about the house. Sometimes I can't help myself, but pick them up and start reading even though I've read these books several times and have a huge backlog of unread books, starring at me from my to-read book shelf.
In this case I'm really glad I did, and got to re-aquatint myself with Pat Brady's Rose is Rose. This is just the best, somewhat like Calvin and Hobbes in its heyday. Brady walks the thin line between cute and sickeningly sweet like a pro and gets away with things that a lesser cartoonist would just turn into a sugary mess.
Not only does these strips contain beautiful messages of love, family, living your dreams and so on, they are really innovative visually, in a way that reminds me of Cliff Sterret's classic Polly and her Pals, and that's praise indeed.
Ok, so now I'll have a hard time to taking dine more Rose is Rose books from the shelf. I haven't got time for this, or maybe that's exactly what I've got.
In this case I'm really glad I did, and got to re-aquatint myself with Pat Brady's Rose is Rose. This is just the best, somewhat like Calvin and Hobbes in its heyday. Brady walks the thin line between cute and sickeningly sweet like a pro and gets away with things that a lesser cartoonist would just turn into a sugary mess.
Not only does these strips contain beautiful messages of love, family, living your dreams and so on, they are really innovative visually, in a way that reminds me of Cliff Sterret's classic Polly and her Pals, and that's praise indeed.
Ok, so now I'll have a hard time to taking dine more Rose is Rose books from the shelf. I haven't got time for this, or maybe that's exactly what I've got.
March 14, 2017
A collection of Sunday strips.
Brightly colored, cheerful, light (with the biggest problem occasional grumpiness). No continuing plot-lines. A lot of expressionist comics showing their mental processes -- and quite a few where the line blurs between the expressionist and the real.
Brightly colored, cheerful, light (with the biggest problem occasional grumpiness). No continuing plot-lines. A lot of expressionist comics showing their mental processes -- and quite a few where the line blurs between the expressionist and the real.
July 15, 2010
the colorful rose
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