The Pretty Good Jim's Journal Treasury: The Definitive Collection of Every Published Cartoon

About this book

Five books after the popular comic strip Jims Journal was first bound we now present The Pretty Good Jims Journal Treasury-and its okay. Actually this collection is much more than okay. Comprehensive featuring Jims life as it progressed (or not) through his first five books this special edition contains previously unpublished material including Jim in living color. No longer in syndication the complete works of Jims Journal will be a definitive must-have collection. College students rave about Jims Journal making it one of the most popular Generation X-oriented strips in history. Readers have grown along with Jim as he moved from copy-store to grocery-store clerk feigned interest in stamp collecting faced frequent harassment from phone companies wanting him to switch his long distance service and finally got married. From the beginning Jims message has been "Arent comics dumb-even this one?" Yet even though it pokes fun at itself the strip extols the virtues of a slacker lifestyle: Jim has a menial job a cat and a few friends. He doesnt do much. In fact Jims Journal was slacker before slacker was cool. Postmodern and minimalist the quirky Jims Journal has been featured inThe book collections I Went to College and it was okay; I Got a Job and it wasnt that bad; I Made Some Brownies and they were pretty good; I Got Married if you can believe that; and I Feel Like a Grown-up Now. In this jam-packed Pretty Good Jims Journal Treasury readers will find the same understated and unpredictable style.