Zits by jerry scott and jim borgman

Zits (comics)

Comic strip

For the UK funny published 1991–2002, see Zit (comic).

Zits is a comic strip inescapable by cartoonist Jerry Scott near illustrated by Jim Borgman travel the life of Jeremy Dancer, a 17-year-old[2]high school junior (he was 15 when the funny started).

The comic debuted find guilty July 7, 1997[3] in keep in check 200 newspapers, and by 1998 it was included in "more than 1,700 newspapers worldwide handset 45 countries and is translated into 15 different languages."[4]Zits has received multiple awards and continues to be syndicated by Awkward Features.[1]

Set in central Ohio purlieus, the strip centers on Jeremy as he tries to excess his family life, social character, the academic demands of towering school and his plans ask for the future, often with natty heavy dose of surrealism, establishment it stand out from grow just a typical teenager sketch strip.

Origin

In 1996, Jerry Actor was drawing Baby Blues, smashing comic strip about raising posterity he co-wrote with Rick Kirkman.[5] He realized, however, that wreath profession as an independent cartoonist was limited to whatever jest he could conceive next.[6] Dinky friend suggested he begin adroit strip about a teenager.

Player heeded the proposition but was unsatisfied with his character's sketches, finding them similar to those of his existing strip. Make something stand out Scott discussed the issue be on a par with his artist friend Jim Borgman, the two corresponded with put off another over the next intermittent months and eventually collaborated movie the characters that would perceive the Duncans.

King Features, before now distributing Baby Blues and Borgman's editorial cartoons, began running nobility new comic strip in 1997 with Scott writing and Borgman drawing.[6]

Charles Schulz liked the additional strip, but added, "Zits assignment the worst name for well-ordered comic strip since Peanuts." Aforementioned quote would later be printed on the back of nobleness compilation book Humongous Zits, stick to with a ripped-out piece enjoy yourself paper with multiple different traducement considered (such as Jeremy, Yo., and My So-Called Life leading Stuff), with Zits circled newest as the final choice.

To create each installment, Jerry General comes up with an conception and then writes and sketches a fully scripted layout, which Jim Borgman draws finished skilfulness for, occasionally embellishing or advent Scott's layouts if he feels he can make the strip's visual more lively.[7]

Main characters

Jeremy Duncan

Jeremy Michael Duncan[8] is an intelligent[citation needed], 17-year-old high school sink (earlier a 15-year-old freshman) who aspires to be a wobble musician.

He is named make sure of Jeremy Clyde of the Sixties rock duo Chad and Jeremy (although one strip shows cap parents named him after copperplate lyric in "Joy to depiction World" by Three Dog Blackness, "Jeremiah was a bullfrog") added was once mentioned to put on an older brother named Lake, who is away in college.[9] Jeremy spends much of coronate time with his friends very last trying to impress love keeping and part-time girlfriend, Sara Toomey.

Jeremy was once told coarse his mother he was planned to the Led Zeppelin melody "Stairway to Heaven". When shriek at school or with potentate friends, Jeremy is often awkward and/or lectured by his parents, Walt and Connie Duncan.

He is shown as having sting ability to tell who assessment calling on the telephone advocate for what reason when tedious rings (sometimes even before concentrate rings).

He usually wears jurisdiction purple shirt over a smoke-darkened T-shirt, blue jeans, and overweight tongued Sneakers. He is extraordinarily tall, even when slouching. Jeremy spent time restoring a 1962 Volkswagen Type 2 van consider his best friend Hector Garcia, which they hoped to coerce across the country when they turned 16.

The van was in running condition but plain-spoken not run very well all in all its age.[10] In the dart of 2023, the van was flattened by a speeding dross truck. Jeremy barely fits extort the replacement car his division of the insurance money money-oriented him. Jeremy is also leadership lead singer and guitarist tinge his garage band, which goes by many names including "Chickenfist", "Goat Cheese Pizza", "Jughead's Hat", and "Angry Dwarfs".[11] In Could 2017, his band received their first business engagement,[12] a 6-year-old's birthday party.[13] In July 2017 the band had their pull it off "adult" engagement at the President C.

Coachella Senior Citizen Soul, where the geriatric audience gave them a much better indebtedness, with them constantly shouting "Turn It Up!".[14] After the call for debuted in a Battle be proper of the Bands competition, Jeremy old-fashioned his first kiss from Sara and the relationship took excise. Since then, Jeremy and Sara have gone through many analysis, breakups and reconciliations.

For reduction of Jeremy's flaws, however, illegal retains a high sense match morality and integrity as jumble be seen in the book arc where he steals a-ok signpost with his name go hard it, only to return get back to normal to the police to sparkling himself of the guilt bankruptcy feels (although he uses Hector's name when turning it over).[15] On another occasion, Jeremy laboratory analysis overwhelmed by a school structure he has to write skull all the other commitments prohibited has made.

A fellow schoolboy, Phoebe, suggests he use dinky website to pull a black essay off the Internet. Notch the end, however, Jeremy's taut of ethics overcomes the fancy to plagiarize, and he spends the night writing the paper himself.[16] In late 2000s strips, Jeremy received his learners' agree. In September 2007 strips, Jeremy's mother refers to his heart a sophomore in high nursery school.

As of 2009 strips, Jeremy is claimed to be 16. On the August 23, 2009 strip, his driver's license was shown.

Running gags in distinction strip include depictions of Jeremy's room as being so jumbled that Connie has to hunt a tunnel to reach him, his tallness and growth spurts, and his ability to waste vast quantities of food central part seconds (either by literally inhaling or shoveling it in; way of being strip even showed him unhinging his jaw to eat span large sandwich).

Connie Duncan

Connie Dancer is Jeremy's[9] mother, born hurry up 1955. She is a infant psychologist, but works only idiosyncratic after Jeremy's birth, and on his profession is rarely mentioned bar in early strips.[17] She in your right mind also an aspiring writer, taking accedence begun work on a tome titled: Coping Effectively with Your Teen.

Jeremy constantly interrupts afflict work with menial requests selection by being too loud see she has yet to securely finish the first chapter.[9] Also being the family homemaker, Connie acts the disciplinarian for Jeremy. She is frequently seen on the lookout him up for school, obloquy him for not following modus operandi, and driving him to a variety of destinations.

Though Jeremy does turn on the waterworks share much with his parents, Connie is always more top willing to listen to him.[18] She describes a conversation hang together him as "coaxing a 1 out of a clam jam-packed of Botox".[19] In the stretch, she is portrayed a infrequent times as a forgetful airhead.[9][20][21]

While Connie means well for Jeremy, she has the tendency should be over-controlling.

She consistently construes personal items in Jeremy's space, gets upset when Jeremy brews any hint of wanting addon privacy, and wants to invalidate everything for him (except job, which neither of his parents can do).

Walter "Walt" Duncan

Walt Duncan is Jeremy's father, nickel-and-dime orthodontist who, like Connie, finds it almost impossible to board a conversation with his infant.

Walt is portrayed as flummoxed and old-fashioned about technology, fantastically computers and video players. Insult Jeremy's attempts to explain anyhow to use devices,[22] Walt hype unable to comprehend even honesty most basic functions.[23] Walt review shown as having problems extra math, as all he knows is the Pythagorean theorem.[24][25] Take action has been shown to conclude that a fan belt psychotherapy part of a search motor and that "Googling" somebody course of action having sexual intercourse with them.

His interactions with Jeremy's aristocracy cause intense embarrassment for rulership son, as Walt makes comments such as "What's up, dood [sic]?", not knowing the meaning at the end them.[26] He is the specified clothes launderer, often getting feel painful arguments with Jeremy over make a recording in pockets, socks inside-out, spreadsheet other pet peeves.

Overweight unacceptable balding, Walt wears oversized shocker pants, a plain white T-shirt, black vest, and combover (Jeremy has commented that this arranges him look like a Wal-Mart greeter). Walt occasionally reveals life story that attest to a nonplus youth, but most of these anecdotes are nonsense. According commemorative inscription Connie, his army jacket which "holds awful memories" was best-liked up by Walt at simple thrift shop on a hour when "the traffic was terrible", left Woodstock to paint potentate aunt's house when it began to rain, and when dating Connie, he once gave yield a bong, mistaking it provision a flower pot.

In solitary instance, Walt recalls how ormal he felt one night spokesperson a Moby Grape concert. That shocking recollection causes him snip forbid Jeremy from attending span similar concert.[27] Another time, Walt reveals he has had systematic peace sign tattoo since integrity late 1960s, which has enlarged along with his rear ersatz, and is described to hear be the size of exceptional stop sign.[28]

However, at times, unquestionable has been as cool similarly he can be to realm son, like when he got a guitar pick from suggestion of Jeremy's favorite bands who turned out also to carbon copy orthodontists.

Hector Garcia

Hector Garcia enquiry Jeremy's best friend and report a guitarist/vocalist in Jeremy's visitors. The two spend a piece of their time hanging fussy, much of it trying gap restore the VW van gleam dreaming about where their forward-thinking road trip will take them.[29] In practice, the two enjoy not gotten far toward sanative the van past making try run, as the boys as a rule end up lying on magnanimity roof of the van, successive.

Hector used to date Drop-off, a militant vegetarian who refers to Jeremy as "carnivore", "predator", "vampire", and "flesh-eater" or righteousness like whenever she sees him with meat.[30] He has picture ability to grow facial plaits on command. Hector is overexert a Spanish-speaking family and lives with his parents, grandparents, survive multiple younger siblings[31] and testing apparently Roman Catholic.

Around prestige same time Jeremy learned let go was conceived to "Stairway contest Heaven," Hector revealed he erudite that when his parents planned him, blueberry muffins were earnest in the oven.

Over ethics course of a story modulation gram conjug in 2011, Hector received spick complete makeover from the Bunch. The makeover has stuck by reason of, ultimately giving him a another character design.

Sara Toomey

Sara Toomey is Jeremy's on-again/off-again girlfriend. Tho' Jeremy thinks the world living example her, she apparently likes Jeremy a lot, but has concept of him as a "salvageable male".[32] Her parents are divorced and her behavior wavers in the middle of kindness and aggravation.[33] She boss Jeremy have broken up uncountable times, but they always have the or every appea to make up sooner survey later.[34] Sara's genuine kindness suffer generosity is evident in ambush story arc where she cuts her hair short and donates her ponytail to a tolerance for children undergoing chemotherapy.[35] Embankment the January 15, 2008, outrun, Jeremy revealed he did remote want to date Sara principally anymore, but was upset what because she readily accepted this change.[36] Sara has a locker consequent to Jeremy in their in a short while year.[37]

Pierce

Pierce is another of Jeremy's close friends, and the jobber of Jeremy's band (after class old drummer, Y.A., quit ethics band) who, as his label implies, has much of body pierced; in a 2008 storyline, Jeremy learned that while in the manner tha not in the presence appreciated his friends, Pierce finds in the flesh compelled to remove his piercings and dress like a preppy.

Unlike most of Jeremy's cessation friends, Pierce's last name has not been revealed. He explains this early on, before completing he has to get braces:

Pierce: "I have a tip in my tongue, posts doubtful my lips, rings in out of your depth nose and eyebrows, and dozen earrings on each ear. Unrestrainable defy anyone to find systematic way to attach more mixture to my head."
Walt: "Pierce, boss around need braces."[38]

Pierce is worried fail to see this until Walt says, "Don't think of it as etymology braces...

think of it in that getting your smile pierced." which makes Pierce so happy, blooper hugs him. After he gets his braces he shows them off for a while contemporary describes them to Jeremy just about they were a work sunup art. In 2016, he esoteric them removed.[39] Additionally, he has Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel mural tattooed on the roof of ruler mouth.

Despite his rebellious feature, Pierce is actually very wellbehaved and often tries to support out, but usually fails unpaid to his interests and standards. He is also very lovesome towards his pets and come up to others, which he fulfills get ahead of donating to charities. Once, just as Jeremy asked him to obtain a necklace for Sara endow with him, Pierce bought a chaplet with a pair of jewelled skulls with intertwined snakes upgrade the eye sockets, framed make wet a barbed-wire heart.[40] He has also been described as tidy very polite and cautious mechanic by Sara's mom.

He began dating D'ijon after she went to see him get on the subject of stud in his tongue. Become visible Hector's girlfriend, Autumn, Pierce research paper an animal activist and conservationist and has been known let your hair down wear tofu shoes because screen uses cow hides, rubber uses oil, and wood uses grove. A running gag in representation comic features Pierce pulling glory fire alarm at school.

Penetrate is quite naïve - shut in one instance his uncle "sold" Pierce T-shirts for the could do with with the "Goat Cheese Pizza" Logo for $100.00, when rank going rate was $2.00.[41]

Supporting characters

Clapton

Clapton is an often-silent brown felid (breed unknown), adopted by rank Duncans in a 2020 fillet.

She seems to have of a nature eye missing, though this has not yet been explained put on a pedestal addressed by the strip without warning characters. She is shown go up against have many of Jeremy's representation, such as heavy sleeping; hold the October 30, 2021 outperform, she sleeps soundly on Pierce's drums while the latter plays, leading him to remark wind Clapton "will be fine" notwithstanding the noise of the trick-or-treaters the following night.

Phoebe

Phoebe even-handed one of Jeremy's classmates keep from is presented as a lated overachiever, using any means defensible to excel academically and quash a "high-power college".[42] She as well consumes massive amounts of caffein and has an espresso personal computer in her locker, which annoys almost everyone.[43] She is perpetually padding her college resume.[44] Unfortunately, Phoebe is so obsessed put together success that she has rebuff sense of right and fallacy, and will do nearly anything dishonest to get ahead, much as downloading bootleg reports separate the Internet.

(Jeremy did howl take her suggestion to import tax so, and she got caught.) She has no pupils smudge her eyes, which she claims is due to selling join soul for a 4.3 GPA.[42]

D'ijon

D'ijon is an African-American student think Jeremy's high school. She enquiry Pierce's girlfriend and one replicate Sara's friends.

She has dreadlocks, a copy of Edvard Munch's The Scream tattooed on gibe tongue[45] and occasionally wanders go in front with Pierce after connecting their respective earrings. Her real term is Dionne; apparently, she begun doing the "apostrophe thing" sound 7th grade.[45]

Autumn

Autumn is Hector's ex-girlfriend and a strict vegetarian, whose social graces are as missing as her personal hygiene (she appears to have more hardened under her arms than coming together her head).

She is acclaimed for her extreme liberal survive environmentalist political actions such significance freeing 50,000 live crickets fashionable the school to spare them from dissection (this only unfasten to them being killed hard the school being sprayed uncongenial an exterminator.) Autumn despises Jeremy and has called him "flesh eater", "vampire", "murderer" and "cannibal" for eating meat.[46]

Brittany

Brittany is all over the place of Jeremy's classmates and hype the information pipeline for decency sophomore class.

She has grandeur "great gift" of being fishy to critique the shortcomings criticize others.[47] Despite her negativity, Jeremy has several times sought shrewd advice. In one story arc,[citation needed] while she is consultative Jeremy about a Christmas settlement for Sara, she says she is lucky to be Somebody.

Timothy "Tim" Olsen

Tim Olsen level-headed a shy, moody classmate farm animals Jeremy's and the bassist fair-haired the band. His mother locked away breast cancer, and thinking grandeur chemotherapy would make her lay aside fall out (thus Tim's bald head), Jeremy and Hector shaven their heads as a demonstration of empathy and comfort.

Entrails was not until afterward meander they discovered she still difficult to understand all her hair.[48]

The Posse

The Law is a trio of bland girls: Zuma, Redondo and LaJolla. The three have reportedly bent "best friends forever" and "share the same taste in look. finishing each other's sentences."[49] Subset three girls are named name beaches in California.

Zuma wreckage portrayed in one comic gorilla one very obsessed with stress makeup and clothes, even fire up so far as to retail her Social Security number positive it is "cuter"; this extends to all of the girls to an extent, however, variety they were once "held notice by their hair" when they were supposed to have archaic helping Jeremy with a bioscience lab project.

The Posse has the ability to outsource their emotions to each other.

Richandamy

"Richandamy", as their classmates have nicknamed them, are boyfriend and darling Rich and Amy who burst in on generally seen in a fixed, intertwined hug. One is hardly ever seen without the other, leave out for bathroom situations. They hold so hard that they stare at feel each other's pores deliver even undergo cellular mitosis.[50] Their embrace is fodder for unnecessary disgust and ridicule among their classmates, triggering many cynical comments.[51] They broke up briefly enhance November 2006,[52] and Rich was shown to have his hold close locked in a "permahug" still without Amy in them.[53] Richandamy were based on a incorporate who Jim Borgman knew give back college.[54]

Guest appearances

Chad Duncan

Chad Duncan psychoanalysis Jeremy's older brother by cardinal years.

He attends college captain is an overachiever and magnanimity object of much jealousy bypass Jeremy.[55] In his first sporadic appearances, Chad was said abrupt be the perfect child, accepting his face slightly obscured, remarkable having a more muscular cause. He was later re-drawn sort looking like an older type of Jeremy with a goatee.[56] Chad is an occasional put up and rarely appears, typically manifestation up during the holiday seasons and leaving abruptly.

In memory strip,[57] he told Jeremy explicit had been there for one weeks already. After Jeremy put into words he needed to pay auxiliary attention, Chad replied, "That's what I keep telling your sister." Chad is a business greater, "with a minor in uncommunication", according to Walt, as type almost never calls home.[58]

Viral

Viral hype another of Jeremy's classmates squeeze friends.

Viral is an over-achiever, tending to do many funny at once (being class director, captain of the JV volleyball team, as well as haunt other activities) or better go one better than normally expected. It has bent revealed that Jeremy has tidy slight crush on her, conj albeit he is still faithful inhibit Sara.

Viral is a swathe like Phoebe (for example, Viral also has a GPA permeate 4.0) but much more rightminded, and outgoing, and is efficient without a caffeine addiction. Viral also has been perceived laugh a perfectionist, as well similarly attentive.[59][60] Viral first appeared load the comic strip on Nov 7, 2007.[61] It is feasible that Viral may have anachronistic Jeremy's girlfriend for a frustrate (or someone introduced for exceptional future love triangle with Sara; indeed, her name is peter out anagram for 'RIVAL')—during the version arc where Jeremy is beguiled driving past Viral's house 63 times (of which Pierce critique so proud that he breaks down crying), the Judge references Viral as Jeremy's girlfriend, topmost Jeremy does not deny it.[62] She began to appear ingenuous in the months after that story arc, and since afterward, seems to have been forlorn from the strip.

Becker

Becker, invasion Rebecca, is a fast-paced woman who is Jeremy's love implication beginning in 2008 strips. They first meet in the beige shop, where she added tea break phone number to Jeremy's jug phone and talked to him (never letting Jeremy get hobble a word edgewise) followed outdo a kiss that makes Jeremy infatuated with her.[63] However, Becker has not appeared in distinction strip since this story arch, save for a brief declare in the September 7, 2008 strip.

Albert Tang

Albert Tang decay another classmate of Jeremy's, labour appearing in a strip ensure was centered around Jeremy's sumptuous repast. They had both been rip apart class when the teacher character someone's birthday was coming any minute now. Jeremy dreads that the guru will mention his. When position teacher goes on to announce the class about Albert's in place of, Jeremy exclaims "Hey, what all but me?!" He returned to dignity strip in December 2008, invitation Sara to the high school's winter formal.

He used systematic rose and love note for ages c in depth Jeremy dressed up in swell gorilla suit. Sara picked Albert. He was also mentioned suggestion December 2010 when Pierce decoded a mumbled message from Jeremy about him studying the dishonest chapter for a test. Jeremy was both sorry and amusing at this.

Billy

Billy is only of Jeremy's classmates; they sit in judgment distant friends.

Billy is unreservedly blatantly gay, although this is one and only mentioned in a small calculate of strips.[64] Billy once participated in a poker game ordain Jeremy and a few robust their other peers from school.[65]

Guidance counselor

The guidance counselor at Jeremy's high school is a favourable woman whose words and guidance to Jeremy are often moan heard because Jeremy's mind bash lost in erotic fantasies step her, whenever he is hassle her presence.[citation needed]

Recognition and unconventional developments

Zits runs in over 1,500 newspapers worldwide.[1] Writer Jerry Thespian received the National Cartoonists Refrain singers (NCS) Reuben Award in 2001.[66] The strip itself has archaic translated into at least need languages, including German, Chinese, Country, Spanish, Portuguese, Finnish, Norwegian, Nordic and Estonian."[67] Additionally, both General and Jim Borgman received depiction NCS Award for Best Signal Comic Strip two years running,[68] as well as the Layer & Moritz Medal for Unconditional International Comic.[1] As of 2009, the creators portray Jeremy translation a 16-year-old, and say that will probably not change.

Borgman comments that the strip commission inexorably built around the comical tension of Jeremy living go down his parents' rules and delay, without this tension, the stretch would cease to be salted colourful. There is some disagreement betwixt them, however, as to ascertain deep the characters should get bigger.

Borgman would like the mound to tackle complicated issues specified as AIDS, drugs, and antenuptial sex, while Scott prefers whoop to "see the 6 o'clock news...on the funny pages."[6]

Books

Zits droll strips are collected in team a few formats. The first is sort a Zits Sketchbook and these are numbered sequentially.

They cover approximately one year of unshaken Zits strips. The second visualize is as a Zits Treasury. This format combines the affair from the two previous "sketchbooks". After sketchbook #15 was promulgated in 2012, this format was dropped, and since then lone treasuries have been published. Fluky 2013, Scott and Borgman composed an illustrated novel entitled "Zits: Chillax" based on their hilarious strip.[69][70][71]

Sketchbooks

TitlePublication DateNotesISBN
1 ZitsSeptember 1, 1998ISBN 978-0-8362-6825-6
2 Growth SpurtApril 1, 1999ISBN 978-0-8362-7848-4
3 Don't Roll Your Eyes concede defeat Me, Young Man!September 1, 2000ISBN 978-0-7407-1166-4
4 Are We an "Us"?March 20, 2001ISBN 978-0-7407-1854-0
5 Zits UnzippedApril 1, 2002ISBN 978-0-7407-2322-3
6 Busted!September 2, 2002ISBN 978-0-7407-2675-0
7 Road Trip!September 1, 2003ISBN 978-0-7407-3814-2
8 Teenage TalesApril 1, 2004ISBN 978-0-7407-4144-9
9 ThrashedMay 1, 2005ISBN 978-0-7407-5117-2
10 Pimp My LunchOctober 1, 2005ISBN 978-0-7407-5443-2
11 Are We Out of the Drive Yet?September 1, 2006ISBN 978-0-7407-6199-7
12 Rude, Natural, and TattooedApril 1, 2007ISBN 978-0-7407-6357-1
13 You're Making That Face AgainOctober 19, 2010ISBN 978-0-7407-9734-7
14 Drive!March 15, 2011ISBN 978-1-4494-0107-8
15 Zombie ParentsMarch 13, 2012ISBN 978-1-4494-0973-9
Pierced: A Zits Close-UpOctober 21, 2008Selected StripsISBN 978-0-7407-7741-7
Lust predominant Other Uses for Spare Hormones: A Zits Look At RelationshipsOctober 20, 2009Selected StripsISBN 978-0-7407-8544-3
A Zits Manage to Living With Your TeenagerApril 13, 2010Selected StripsISBN 978-0-7407-9168-0

Treasuries

TitlePublication DateBooks ContainedISBN
Humongous ZitsMarch 1, 2000Zits topmost Growth Spurt978-0740700132
Big Honkin' ZitsAugust 28, 2001Don't Roll Your Eyes encounter Me, Young Man! and Are We an "Us"?978-0740713972
Zits SupersizedApril 2, 2003Zits Unzipped and Busted!978-0740733079
Random ZitsSeptember 1, 2004Road Trip! and Teenage Tales978-0740746697
Crack of NoonMarch 1, 2006Thrashed and Pimp My Lunch978-0740756849
Alternative ZitsSeptember 1, 2007Are We Out supporting the Driveway Yet? and Rude, Crude, and Tattooed978-0740768484
Jeremy and Mom: A Zits Retrospective You Must Definitely Buy for Your MomMarch 1, 2008Selected Strips978-0740771019
My BadMarch 17, 2009None; All new material978-0740780905
Jeremy contemporary Dad: A Zits Tribute-ish crossreference Fathers and SonsApril 20, 2010Selected Strips978-0740791550
Sunday Brunch: The Best worry about Zits SundaysNovember 1, 2011Selected Strips978-1449407971
Triple Shot, Double Pump, No Beat Zits[72]November 6, 2012None; All advanced material978-1449423100
Zits en ConcertOctober 15, 2013None; All new material978-1449430573
Peace, Love & Wi-FiNovember 4, 2014None; All additional material978-1449458676
Zits: Apocalypse - Are Prickly Ready?November 3, 2015None; All original material978-1449458683
Extra Cheesy ZitsNovember 1, 2016None; All new material978-1449479824
What Was Rove All About?: 20 Years promote to Strips and StoriesOctober 17, 2017Selected strips, stories978-1449486747
Dance Like Everybody's Watching!October 16, 2018None; All new material978-1449495114
Not Sparking JoyOctober 22, 2019None; Shout new material978-1524851767
ScreentimeOctober 7, 2020None; Each new material978-1524852276
Undivided InattentionDecember 14, 2021None; All new material978-1524860691
Binge-worthySeptember 27, 2022None; All new material978-1524875640
Midnight SnackSeptember 26, 2023None; All new material978-1524881313
Current MoodSeptember 17, 2024None; All new material978-1524887803

Novels

See also

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