New Releases by Jerry Scott

Zits is the perfect comic portrayal of life, with an eye-rolling teenager and perplexed but connected parents. Sixteen-year-old Jeremy Duncan is a high school sophomore and an aspiring musician. He daydreams about the day when his band records its first monster hit single and he and his bandmates all pile into his van for their cross-country, sold-out concert tour. Between naps, study hall, and band practice, Jeremy still manages to find time to be the star of this hugely popular comic strip. Jeremy is a good kid. He is intelligent and kind, yet he still has the attitude that one would expect from a teenager. His unpredictable mood swings and monosyllabic answers to his parents’ mild-mannered questions often leave them baffled and bemused. Zits was created in 1997 by Pulitzer Prize– and Reuben Award–winning editorial cartoonist Jim Borgman and Reuben Award–winning cartoonist/writer Jerry Scott. The creators, who are parents themselves, have a keen insight into the many physical and emotional changes that teens go through during adolescence, and they have the gift of addressing these common dilemmas with compassion and humor.

Cartoons provide a humorous view of the frustrations and rewards of parenthood as Wanda and Darryl adjust to life with young children.

"Zombie Parents" is an all-new collection of the award-winning comic strip "Zits." While 15-year-old son Jeremy is grappling with impending career choices and parental pearls of wisdom on topics ranging from driving to sex, parents Connie and Walt do their best to keep up with his latest trends, vocabulary words, and appetite cravings.

"Baby Blues" transcends the comic page by fusing the award-winning imaginations of Kirkman and Scott with familiar family life. The authors intuitively balance the humorous with the poignant through relatable and sometimes all-too-familiar parenting scenes.

In their immensely popular comic strip Zits, Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Jim Borgman and writer Jerry Scott have succeeded in creating one of the most poignant, realistic and funny portrayals of teenagers found in any medium today. This book features the best Sunday strips. Belly up to the buffet . . . it''s time for a Sunday Brunch. Inside this immense all-you-can-read hardcover, close to 300 of the best and most popular full-color Sunday strips are presented along with annotations, essays, and original sketches by Zits creators Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman. Parents themselves, Borgman and Scott have learned a thing or two about living with and parenting teenagers. Lauded by the Los Angeles Times "as one of the freshest and most imaginative strips," and designated as Best Newspaper Comic Strip twice by the National Cartoonists Society, Scott and Borgman''s Zits offers shared experience on both sides of the generation gap. Inside Sunday Brunch, sixteen-year-old Jeremy, the son of parentals Connie and Walt, grapples with the latest trends, confronts hot-button issues ranging from sex and impending career choices, and tackles lighter topics such as sleep schedules and appetite cravings. Next Sunday, sleep a little later and make your pancakes and mimosa even more enjoyable with Zits Sunday Brunch.

In this chronological collection, readers get a close-up view inside the home of the MacPhersons, a perfectly normal family with perfectly chaotic lives. Daryl and Wanda are deep in the trenches of childrearing and earning their stripes as parents to Zoe, Hammie, and baby Wren.

From hormones to how-come-I’m-not-like-everyone-else questions and insecurities, Borgman and Scott continue to successfully tell teenage horror stories since the strips debut in newspapers in 1997. Readers and fans can find Zits in 1,600 newspapers worldwide, an achievement only 18 comic strips have ever earned. Lauded by the Los Angeles Times "as one of the freshest and most imaginative strips," and designated as Best Newspaper Comic Strip three times by the National Cartoonists Society, Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman''s Zits chronicles many of the scenes that play out under the rooftops of more than 80.5 million homes across the country. Artfully exploring insecurities, societal pressures, and just plain teenage goofiness, Scott and Borgman contrast the experiences of being an adolescent and being the parent of one. Sixteen-year-old Jeremy Duncan is learning to navigate residential byways and high school hallways while the parentals, a.k.a. Connie and Walt Duncan, just try to keep pace and find a little peace.

From the dark days of sleep deprivation to the cacophony of a trikid family, "Baby Blues" has been revealing the true dark underbelly of parenting to the delight of newspaper readers everywhere. Like a comic epidural, or cream on a raging diaper rash, this comic strip has helped take some of the sting out of parenting for countless parents around the world. Intuitively balances the humorous with the poignant through relatable and sometimes all-too-familiar parenting scenes.

We Were Here First is the declaration from Wanda and Darryl MacPherson to their three small children, as they hide in the closet for one precious second of “alone” time. In the day-to-day world of sippy cups, diapers, tantrums, and spit-up, life can get pretty crazy!

These examples of the "Zits" comic strip are annotated to provide humorous advice on living with a teenager.

Young Hammie has it all until the day his parents bring home a baby sister. In an instant, Hammie goes from the revered position of "baby of the family" to, ugh, middle child. It''s not a smooth transition to big brotherhood for Hammie, but it''s definitely a humorous and heartwarming story.

Another collection of the comic strip adventures of parents Darryl and Wanda as they cope with life and three children.

In the spring, a young man''s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of . . . Oh, who are we kidding? When do guys NOT think about girls? "Lust and Other Uses for Spare Hormones" contains Scott and Borgman''s favorite "Zits" strips about love.

This collection of the award-winning "Baby Blues" comic strip expertly illustrates one family''s hilarious experiences raising Zoe, Hammie, and Baby Wren.

From questions, curiosities, and concerns, to hormones and insecurities, teenagers Jeremy, girlfriend Sara, and best buds Hector and Pierce make muddling through the day memorable.

Zits is "one of the freshest and most imaginative strips." Los Angeles Times Twice honored as the Best Newspaper Comic Strip, Zits appears in more than 1,600 newspapers and is read daily by more than 45 million fans. In Pierced, Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman have hand-picked strips spotlighting Pierce, who is often the most popular (and certainly the most perforated) character in their strip. One of Jeremy''s best friends and the drummer in the band, Pierce''s audacious body art gives all of the outward signs of a fierce nonconformist kid living on the edge. But beneath the metal and tattoo ink lies the soul of the caring, loyal friend and animal lover within. Or as Jeremy describes him, "Face of silver, heart of gold."

A collection of "Baby Blues" comic strips, in which the MacPherson family is growing up, and features selections with education and school related themes.

"X-treme parenting contains strips from the books: Briefcase full of Baby blues and Night shift"--Page 4 of cover.

A collection of "Zits" comics featuring the adventures of fifteen-year-old Jeremy and his family and friends.

The realities of being parents of a young family are explored in these comics featuring Zoe, a red-headed, pig-tailed girl; Ham, her pin-headed brother; and Wren, the newborn.

In Zits, Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman sublimely manipulate the two seemingly dissimilar worlds of teenagedom and parenthood to create a strip that is equally enjoyed by teens and their parents.Appealingly portraying the angst and insecurities associated with growing up, Alternative Zits: A Zits Treasury features all strips from Are We Out of the Driveway Yet? and Rude, Crude, and Tattooed.

More comic strips about the daily lives of Jeremy Duncan and his family and friends.

Another collection of the comic strip adventures of parents Darryl and Wanda as they cope with life and three children.

A new collection of the comic strip about Jeremy Duncan and his family and friends and their struggle to survive his teenage years.

Collection of previously published comic strips.

This "Zits" treasury combines strips from "Thrashed" and "Pimp My Lunch," meaning fans can once again enjoy such "Zits" classic moments as the joys of instant messaging and the proper way to apply deodorant.

Baby Blues makes life with children seem funny, even when they smear peanut butter on the walls and give the baby a makeover with Mom''s cosmetics. Says writer Jerry Scott, "As long as kids keep having runny noses and wiping them on the drapes, we''re in business." Our Server is Down: Baby Blues Scrapbook #20 captures the perils and pratfalls of raising young children in suburbia. Daryl and Wanda MacPherson are a couple in their mid-thirties struggling to juggle work and three kids with hectic schedules-and maintain their sanity. Zoe, the talkative eldest, is seven and more worldly than ever. Hammie is the newly anointed (by the recent birth of baby Wren) middle child. At age five, he''s a willing student for Zoe and a virtual Velcro board for blame. Wren is the newest addition to the MacPherson clan-so far, all giggles and sunshine . . . with a few clouds on the horizon. Parents worldwide have delighted in this slice-of-life comic since its debut in 1990.

Think teenagers don''t read as much as they used to? Drop in any bookstore and you''re likely to find a teenager sitting cross-legged on the floor, paging through the latest Zits book. Zits chronicles the daily lives of a teen in a way that''s not done in the popular media-with respect. "Having teenagers in the house is like having a front-row seat to one of life''s great passages," says Jim Borgman. "Zits tries to respect that period by taking a sympathetic view of all the players involved-the parents, as well as the kids." "We like to think of Zits as the antidote to all of the bad stuff you read about teenagers today," adds Jerry Scott. "Many people believe that modern adolescence is all about gangs, guns, drugs, and AIDS. While all of that exists, Zits takes a look at the teen years from ground level, where, for most kids, relationships, friendships, school, and sports are the stuff of daily life." Zits levels the playing field and often causes (gasp!) communication to occur between kids and their parents. Appearing in over 1,200 newspapers worldwide, this enormously popular comic strip has been a comic staple since it was first syndicated by King Features in 1997. .