Nuts

Nuts

<p><strong>Remember how baffling, terrifying, and sad childhood really was? Now you can laugh at it.</strong></p> Remember how baffling, terrifying, and sad childhood really was? Now you can laugh at it.<br /><br /> In this thematically and narratively linked series of one-page stories originally published in the <em>National Lampoon’s</em> “Funny Pages” section throughout the 1970s, the master of the macabre 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. This is essentially a lost Gahan Wilson graphic novel from the 1970s and '80s.<br /><br /> Watch as our stoic, hunting-cap-wearing protagonist (known only as “The Kid”) copes with illness, disappointment, strange old relatives, the disappointment of Christmas, life-threatening escapades, death, school, the awfulness of camp, and much more ― all delineated in Wilson’s roly-poly, sensual, delicately hatched line.<br /><br /> If you don’t remember what it was like being a child, this book will bring it all back… for good or for ill! This new hardcover edition reprints every single “Nuts” story from the <em>Lampoon</em> (rescuing over two dozen pages from oblivion), with a critical essay about the strip by Fantagraphics Publisher Gary Groth. Black-and-white comics with "Christmas" and "Halloween" strips in full-color