- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (Sep 1 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0740700073
- ISBN-13: 978-0740700071
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 17.8 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 612 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,866,738 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This review is from: The Pretty Good Jim's Journal Treasury: The Definitive Collection of Every Published Cartoon (Paperback)
Who is Jim? For ten years, readers of selected daily newspapers wondered that same thing. Even more, though, they wondered, "Why is Jim?""Jim's Journal" was a ten-year-running comic strip which revolved around some average guy living an average life. He had average friends, worked average jobs, and did pretty much less than you or I do on your slowest day. Only, Jim kept a journal, where he would write all about what he did. "I made some brownies today," he would write. "They were pretty good." "Mr. Peterson [Jim's cat] ran into the other room," would be another typical entry. "Today, I took a nap. I woke up at 6 o'clock and wondered whether it was day or night." And those were the punchlines. There were no jokes to speak of. Only snippets of a boring day. However, there was something redeemable about Jim... He was the pinnacle of Anti-Humor! He wasn't funny, he did nothing remarkable from day to day (although he did get married, in a three-strip special entry)... and yet, this collected edition of all the published "Jim's Journal" cartoons is tremendously difficult to find without paying a premium price, even though it is less than 10 years old! Readers fall in love with Jim, despite himself.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must-have for anyone with a decent sense of humor,
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This review is from: The Pretty Good Jim's Journal Treasury: The Definitive Collection of Every Published Cartoon (Paperback)
I fell in love with Jim in college. One night, several years later, he popped into my head. I got out of bed and started looking up Jim's Journal on the internet. When I found this book, I was ecstatic!! It was so great to read some of my favorites that I remember from college.Also, if you're a cat-lover, Jim provides some poignant, yet hilarious, reflections on owning a cat. We all have a little bit of Jim in us.
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A great book,
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This review is from: The Pretty Good Jim's Journal Treasury: The Definitive Collection of Every Published Cartoon (Paperback)
If you haven't heard of Jim's journal and you ended up here because as a fan of the Onion you wanted to see what Scott Dikkers once did, then you're in for a pleasant (or unpleasant time) people are completely polarized by Jim - either you love the strip or you hate it. I love Jim. Don't bother buying any of the single collections when you can own the whole Jim Treasury. Also included in this book (and missing from the other stand alone books i.e. I got married, I made some brownies) is an introduction for each of these books in the collection. Plus you get various insight into the characters and strip from Dikkers in some revealing passages that are both laugh out loud funny and kind of sad. If you are a fan of meta comedy - i.e. comedy that is funny because it is done in such a blank fashion that its hard not to laugh - if only for the absurdity of the whole thing - then this book is for you. If the idea of a comic strip where the punchline for a strip is "when I woke up from my nap I was even more tired than I was before" leaves you scratching your head - then you should probably buy some Marmaduke or Garfield. Maybe a collection of Hagar the Horrible would be best. On the other hand, if you like things that don't always make sense - buy this book. You'll love it.
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