Nuts

About this book

In this thematically and narratively linked series of one-page stories originally published in the National Lampoons "Funny Pages" section throughout the 1970s Gahan Wilson eschewed his usual ghouls vampires and end-of-the-world scenarios for a wry pointed look at growing up normal in the real yet endlessly weird world. Watch as our stoic hunting-cap-wearing protagonist (known only as "The kid") copes with illness strange old relatives the disappointment of Christmas life-threatening escapades death school the awfulness of camp and much more all delineated in Wilsons roly-poly sensual delicately hatched line. Nuts was (partly) collected in a now long out-of-print volume back in 1979. If you dont remember what it was like being a child this book will bring it all back... for good or for ill!