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Angry Little Girls in Love
They're back and in love! Angry Little Girls in Love, is definitely not a cuddly, lovely-dovey, mushy love book. This book follows the promising first date of Kim and Bruce who hook up to have a dysfunctional boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. Their friends offer help and advice along the way. Featuring vengeful, sarcastic, and hopeless love cartoons, anyone who has been in a relationship or is trying to find one for Valentine's Day will surely get a laugh out of this book.
64 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 2008
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About the author
Lela Lee
18 books24 followersLela Lee is a cartoonist, actress and writer. Her "Angry Little Girls" weekly comic strip and six anthology comic books is syndicated by Universal Press and published by Abrams and Perseus books respectively. “Angry Little Girls” is the umbrella name for her main character, the “Angry Little Asian Girl” which Lee created in 1994 while she was a sophomore at UC Berkeley.
In addition to the weekly comic strip, Lela also acts and writes. She is currently working on a pilot script and book. As an actress, she was series regular Jodi Chang in the SyFy show “Tremors,” and recurred as Bonnie, a surgical intern on “Scrubs." She has also guest starred on “Shameless," “Grey’s Anatomy,” and "Better Call Saul.”
Lela earned a bachelor's degree in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley. She is married and has two sons.
In addition to the weekly comic strip, Lela also acts and writes. She is currently working on a pilot script and book. As an actress, she was series regular Jodi Chang in the SyFy show “Tremors,” and recurred as Bonnie, a surgical intern on “Scrubs." She has also guest starred on “Shameless," “Grey’s Anatomy,” and "Better Call Saul.”
Lela earned a bachelor's degree in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley. She is married and has two sons.
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August 10, 2019
So funny! I don't usually read straight romcoms, but this made everything terrible about love funny!
September 20, 2023
funny and enjoyable
November 8, 2019
I love this. I've the postcards in my room lol .. lol a couple of pages reminded me of people I know...lol..
September 9, 2017
Eh, this one was okay. Not funny, but not completely boring either.
October 13, 2018
This book is hilarious😂 and good lol. It is like a great book for entertainment lol, the jokes are pretty funny in it haha
December 18, 2019
I love this series. The cute little comics hit home about the different expectations of being a girl and the girls responses to them make me chuckle.
February 7, 2025
Hilarious! Totally could think of a few people who would respond the same way as the author did. I enjoyed each page
October 26, 2012
Sometimes I start a review by saying “Clearly I didn’t understand this.” I generally do it when something is popular and I didn’t enjoy it at all.
Clearly I didn’t understand this.
The lead character, Kim, is meant to be a six year old girl. She clearly isn’t because in some panels she wakes up in her double bed next to her boyfriend, so let’s just accept that her apparent age is an artistic conceit and that she’s a young woman of indeterminate age. Her defining characteristic is her rage. Now, I presunme the humor is meant to be something like “Small girls are sugar and spice, so by having a small girl who is emotionally cruel and physically violent we are subverting the trope, and subverting tropes is funny.” possibly it’s “Men usually hurt women. Kim is hurting men. She is therefore funny.”
It could be that I just don’t get schaudenfreude. I know it exists, and I can read definitions of it, but I just don’t personally find it funny. I know other people do: they find those home video shows where people hit each other and their pets, supposedly by accident, hilarious. Perhaps that why I just don’t get Little Girls in Love.
To me, it reads as a book which is deliberately, even evangelically, joyless. Kim, the lead character, is a domestic abuser, so much so that I wonder if the Duluth Power Wheel was involved in her character design. Sure, the Duluth Wheel is explicitly designed for male abusers, but she gets six out of the eight wedges. She even gets the Using Male Privelege wedge, because she engages in the behaviors of an abusive male.
Clearly I didn’t understand this.
Originally reviewed on book coasters
Clearly I didn’t understand this.
The lead character, Kim, is meant to be a six year old girl. She clearly isn’t because in some panels she wakes up in her double bed next to her boyfriend, so let’s just accept that her apparent age is an artistic conceit and that she’s a young woman of indeterminate age. Her defining characteristic is her rage. Now, I presunme the humor is meant to be something like “Small girls are sugar and spice, so by having a small girl who is emotionally cruel and physically violent we are subverting the trope, and subverting tropes is funny.” possibly it’s “Men usually hurt women. Kim is hurting men. She is therefore funny.”
It could be that I just don’t get schaudenfreude. I know it exists, and I can read definitions of it, but I just don’t personally find it funny. I know other people do: they find those home video shows where people hit each other and their pets, supposedly by accident, hilarious. Perhaps that why I just don’t get Little Girls in Love.
To me, it reads as a book which is deliberately, even evangelically, joyless. Kim, the lead character, is a domestic abuser, so much so that I wonder if the Duluth Power Wheel was involved in her character design. Sure, the Duluth Wheel is explicitly designed for male abusers, but she gets six out of the eight wedges. She even gets the Using Male Privelege wedge, because she engages in the behaviors of an abusive male.
Clearly I didn’t understand this.
Originally reviewed on book coasters
October 16, 2015
With an art style not unlike the MSPaint version of the classic Charlie Brown comics. The similarities continue to grow as you realize the two main characters are the spitting image of Charlie Brown and Lucy - twenty years later.
Much as the title suggests, this collection of comicstrips centers on how frustrating the search for love can be. Poking fun at the cliches and sentemental conventions of love with an angry blunt poker. If you're frustrated with the dating game and need a quick laugh this is the book for you!
Much as the title suggests, this collection of comicstrips centers on how frustrating the search for love can be. Poking fun at the cliches and sentemental conventions of love with an angry blunt poker. If you're frustrated with the dating game and need a quick laugh this is the book for you!
August 2, 2009
I enjoyed Angry Little Girls In Love because I am one. :P
Not many of the ideas expressed are very original, but they are done so with simplicity and cute drawings so it balances out.
I finished it within a few minutes. It would make a cute gift or coffee table book. It came with a free postcard, which I doubt I'll ever use simply because I don't want to remove it from the rest of the cartoons.
Not many of the ideas expressed are very original, but they are done so with simplicity and cute drawings so it balances out.
I finished it within a few minutes. It would make a cute gift or coffee table book. It came with a free postcard, which I doubt I'll ever use simply because I don't want to remove it from the rest of the cartoons.
August 10, 2015
To my relief, this has none of the racial stereotypes found in Fairy Tales for Angry Little Girls. This is just pure, unadulterated snark. The contrast between the cutesy little-girl artwork and the bitter, world-weary view of love and relationships makes me giggle.
September 8, 2008
Depressing truisms about the pitfalls of heterocentric love affairs, but with very cute drawings & a female bent. It was enjoyable, but in a guilty pleasure kind of way. The ideas within are not terribly original either: just standard battle of the sexes speak.
July 8, 2013
These are fresh cartoon stories about girls who are sarcastic, angry, disenchanted, crazy, and sardonic. Anyone who has had a relationship can perfectly relate to it. A perfect valentine gift for close friends and loved ones.
January 19, 2009
A very excellent sarcastic view of love. I gave it as a present to my aunt and her girls.
February 4, 2009
This book of cartoons is seriously cute and just the thing to remind us that love isn't perfect
January 8, 2012
My daughter and I both like to read Lela Lee's angry little girls cartoons.
May 31, 2019
This book annoyed me. I was surprised at the gender of the person who wrote it because it was written like a man who had been scorned.
The guy is sweet but clueless and the chick is abusive.
The guy is sweet but clueless and the chick is abusive.
September 6, 2012
very cute!
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