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 is the best synducated comic on the face of the Earth. After all if you know anything about me it's almost taken verbatim from my life. LOL |
Zits, The National Cartoonist Society's Best Comic Strip of the Year for 1999!
Only two short years after its wildly popular debut in the summer of 1997, Zits
has become one of America's favorite comic strips! Enter the life of Jeremy
Duncan, a 15-year-old aspiring rock musician, riddled with angst, boredom and
parents who don't understand anything. Let him show you the wonderfully lousy
world of being a 15-year-old. Meet Jeremy's parents Connie and Walt Duncan.
Watch as they continue to try to figure out the mysterious science of parenting
a teenager... the second time around! Meet Jeremy's brother, Chad, the glowing
college student. Jeremy will have to live up to his brother's dreadfully perfect
example. Join Jeremy and his best friend Hector as they struggle to solve the
mystery of life, aided with advanced hangin' out techniques. Watch Jeremy as
he flounders around with his awkward high school love affair with Sarah Toomey,
his uh... girlfriend. Zits now appears in 900 newspapers, and is still growing!
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Jeremy
In case you've forgotten, being 15 isn't all that it's cracked up
to be. In fact, sometimes the only good thing Jeremy can
say about it is that it's better than being 14. Jeremy Duncan
is a freshman in high school, a B student, a budding
musician, and a younger brother. He's the kind of friend most
of us would like to have — or would like to be. He's a likable,
introspective kid, a medium-deep thinker whose main
pastimes are playing the guitar, hanging out, and being
amazed at his parents' spectacular ignorance about
practically everything that's cool or important to him. Caring,
funny, ambivalent, impatient, self-absorbed, emotional and
bored silly, Jeremy is the essence of adolescence.
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Mom
As the mother of a 15-year-old son for the second time,
Connie Duncan finds herself surprisingly unprepared to admit
that Jeremy is no longer her baby boy in cowboy pajamas.
Torn between the habit of mothering and the knowledge that
Jeremy is growing up, she's never quite sure how to treat
him. Connie has a flextime job, which allows her to keep an
eye on Jeremy, as well as contribute to his anemic college
fund. The demands of a teen-ager at home, the worry of
another away at college, and the pressure of work deadlines
combine to keep her feeling equally hassled and needed.
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Dad
He's still the "Big Dawg" at home, but he knows that won't
be the case forever. Walt Duncan is all too aware that his
age and his waistline are in a dead heat, and that he has
lost a step or two in his driveway basketball skills (Has the
ball always been this heavy?). Walt spends his days
torturing teen-agers as an orthodontist with a social
conscience, and his evenings torturing Jeremy as a caring,
involved father. A sweet, understanding guy, he tries his
level-best to treat his son as an individual, and not compare
him to his older son, Chad, who wasn't a bit of trouble when
he was 15.
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Chad
Away at college and handling everything flawlessly, Chad
continues to be the standard against which all things
adolescent are judged. His 4.0 grade average in high school,
his status as an all-state athlete and student president, and
his flawless complexion are just some of the things about
Chad that Jeremy admires and resents. Living up to the
legacy of a talented older sibling is tough. Living up to Chad
is hopeless.
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Hector
Hector Garcia and Jeremy have been best friends since the
5th grade. Hector is a bookish kid, but has a mischievous
streak that is infectious — especially to Jeremy. Hector's
taste in mismatched clothing ("If it goes, it blows") is
legendary, and his casual and cool approach to almost
everything has earned him respect among the rest of the
freshman class. Hector is third of five children, lives in a
crowded, energetic home with two younger brothers, a
sister, his parents and two grandparents.
Sarah
Sarah Toomey has a love-like relationship with Jeremy — he
loves her, and she likes it. Usually. Sarah is often annoyed
by Jeremy's immaturity, but at the same time she's
fascinated by the power she holds over him. To Sarah,
Jeremy is more like a science experiment than a potential
boyfriend.
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