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Ménage à 3 #1-2
Ménage à 3: Volume 1
Ménage à 3 follows the lives of a 29-year-old-virgin comic book geek and his two way-hotter-than-he-is roommates. Gary, Didi, and Zii's tight-as-a-sandwich Montreal apartment is the cramped stage for sexy hijinks, awkward moments, and pretty much everybody trying to bonk, shag, or nuzzle with everyone else!
This volume includes over 300 installments of the popular webcomic series, plus print-exclusive bonus stories!
This volume includes over 300 installments of the popular webcomic series, plus print-exclusive bonus stories!
352 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2011
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About the author
Gisèle Lagacé
94 books32 followersI've been doing webcomics for quite a while now. I published my first project, Cool Cat Studio, back in 2000. Since then, I've worked/collaborated on many webcomics, such as Penny & Aggie (first artist,) Ménage à 3 (Rated R/NSFW,) Eerie Cuties, Magick Chicks, and Sticky Dilly Buns. Most of these comics are part of Pixie Trix Comix. On occasion, I do penciling work for Archie Comics, e.g., Archie #635, #636, #639 & # 646. I sometimes do covers and little stories in the digests as well.
Before comics, I was a graphic designer who worked at Avenue Design Group in Ottawa. I would design logos, layout ads for newspapers... stuff like that. And before THAT, I was a bassist in the Quebec all-girl band, Barbarella. This was early 1990s, when I was in my early twenties (I was born June 16, 1970.)
Schooling wise, I did my high school at l'ESN in Bathurst, NB. I studied Visual Arts for a year at l'Université de Moncton, and I got a college degree in graphic design from La Cité Collégiale in Ottawa.
I've lived in New Brunswick (still do,) Montreal, Ottawa/Gatineau, and even Schefferville! (Google it)
My strongest influence as a comic artist is Dan DeCarlo, but cartoonists like Jim Davis, Uderzo, Rumiko Takahashi, and Yumiko Igarashi have also influenced me, and given me the drive to do what I do. Music influences me too. The Pixies and Cheap Trick have had a great impact on me. So did Kiss back in the 1970s.
Before comics, I was a graphic designer who worked at Avenue Design Group in Ottawa. I would design logos, layout ads for newspapers... stuff like that. And before THAT, I was a bassist in the Quebec all-girl band, Barbarella. This was early 1990s, when I was in my early twenties (I was born June 16, 1970.)
Schooling wise, I did my high school at l'ESN in Bathurst, NB. I studied Visual Arts for a year at l'Université de Moncton, and I got a college degree in graphic design from La Cité Collégiale in Ottawa.
I've lived in New Brunswick (still do,) Montreal, Ottawa/Gatineau, and even Schefferville! (Google it)
My strongest influence as a comic artist is Dan DeCarlo, but cartoonists like Jim Davis, Uderzo, Rumiko Takahashi, and Yumiko Igarashi have also influenced me, and given me the drive to do what I do. Music influences me too. The Pixies and Cheap Trick have had a great impact on me. So did Kiss back in the 1970s.
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April 26, 2018
A modern day, mature version of Three's Company / Porky's for all sexual orientations. The art is good, reminds me of what a Manga version of Archie would look like.
March 8, 2018
Apparently this is a very popular web comic. If this is a web comic that you enjoyed, well, here it is all collected. Have fun.
For the rest of this, this is a bunch of tits and ass jokes, reminiscent of Threes Company but with more NSFW events added in.
If you enjoy look at Didi, the dumb, blonde, large breasted room mate, wander through the stories wondering about such things as if Gary needs sex (he is a 29 year old virgin), then you would love this series of stories.
I'm sure these are all very funny, for the right audiences, and I am not a prude, but how long can you make fun of Gary for being a virgin, before it gets old, very fast.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.
For the rest of this, this is a bunch of tits and ass jokes, reminiscent of Threes Company but with more NSFW events added in.
If you enjoy look at Didi, the dumb, blonde, large breasted room mate, wander through the stories wondering about such things as if Gary needs sex (he is a 29 year old virgin), then you would love this series of stories.
I'm sure these are all very funny, for the right audiences, and I am not a prude, but how long can you make fun of Gary for being a virgin, before it gets old, very fast.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.
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February 27, 2021In many respects a very traditional sex comedy, with all the 'inadvertently naked with the wrong person' and 'cunning ruse to get someone into bed' that entails - so people who react badly to loose treatment of consent would be advised to steer clear. Hell, it even has a buxom Francophone with a far looser attitude to nudity than all the Anglos, because apparently the same stereotype which did for French girls in Carry On will serve for French Canadians too. But there are also significant differences from that template which stop it being a museum piece. Like, the lead creator is female*, and likewise the most unabashedly lecherous of the leads. So too, the way that pretty much all the significant characters are at least mildly bi, even if they don't necessarily realise it at first, not until they get into a suitably epiphanic scrape in the bedroom (or bathroom, or...you get the idea). I'm intrigued that this series is apparently a big deal in the webcomic world, a realm I don't really follow but clearly hold assumptions regarding. But it's certainly amiable enough, and underwritten by a firm grasp (fnarr fnarr) of farce mechanics.
*Also, one assumes from the name, French Canadian. Though somehow that feels less necessary to this not coming off badly.
(Netgalley ARC)
*Also, one assumes from the name, French Canadian. Though somehow that feels less necessary to this not coming off badly.
(Netgalley ARC)
March 15, 2018
3.5 stars
Menage a 3 is the first volume of stories from the ongoing web comic of the same name. http://ma3comic.com Set in Montreal, it follows the adventures of Gary, a comic book artist, who has to find two new flat mates when his two male flat mates fall in love with each other and suddenly move out.
After much interviewing and weeding out potentially weird and dangerous flat mates, Gary finds two new flat mates who are both women and of course Gary, who lives a safe and mundane life, is bedazzled by both of them. Gary is 29 year old virgin and he thinks this is his chance to finally get a girlfriend or two.
Alas it doesn't work out that way because his two new flatmates have ideas and antics of their own. The book shows the ins and out of friendships, relationships and sexual antics of the three flat mates and their friends.
There is plenty of ribald and risque humor here which is brought to life by great graphics and some of it is very funny but it does get a bit wearisome after a while. This reminds me of the tv show Friends, but with a lot of nudity and some French.
I think fans and followers of the web comic will really enjoy having a volume of comic strips from the webcomic. Having this in book form will probably mean fans of the online comic can easily revisit their favorite stories. The web comic has been running for nearly 10 years and the authors (Gisèle Lagacé and David Lumsdon)have been nominated for various awards.
The art work is excellent with clear lines, black and white drawings and so I can see why it is a popular web comic, but if you don't like constant ribald humor this one will not be for you. I really enjoyed the artwork but the jokes, although really funny in some places got a bit boring after a while. I think I wanted more of a story.
Copy provided by Udon Entertainment via Netgalley in exchange for an unbiased review.
Menage a 3 is the first volume of stories from the ongoing web comic of the same name. http://ma3comic.com Set in Montreal, it follows the adventures of Gary, a comic book artist, who has to find two new flat mates when his two male flat mates fall in love with each other and suddenly move out.
After much interviewing and weeding out potentially weird and dangerous flat mates, Gary finds two new flat mates who are both women and of course Gary, who lives a safe and mundane life, is bedazzled by both of them. Gary is 29 year old virgin and he thinks this is his chance to finally get a girlfriend or two.
Alas it doesn't work out that way because his two new flatmates have ideas and antics of their own. The book shows the ins and out of friendships, relationships and sexual antics of the three flat mates and their friends.
There is plenty of ribald and risque humor here which is brought to life by great graphics and some of it is very funny but it does get a bit wearisome after a while. This reminds me of the tv show Friends, but with a lot of nudity and some French.
I think fans and followers of the web comic will really enjoy having a volume of comic strips from the webcomic. Having this in book form will probably mean fans of the online comic can easily revisit their favorite stories. The web comic has been running for nearly 10 years and the authors (Gisèle Lagacé and David Lumsdon)have been nominated for various awards.
The art work is excellent with clear lines, black and white drawings and so I can see why it is a popular web comic, but if you don't like constant ribald humor this one will not be for you. I really enjoyed the artwork but the jokes, although really funny in some places got a bit boring after a while. I think I wanted more of a story.
Copy provided by Udon Entertainment via Netgalley in exchange for an unbiased review.
March 11, 2018
Full disclosure: I received a free review copy of this book from NetGalley.
Ménage a 3 is a French-Canadian webcomic about the sexy hijinks of three roommates - Gary, the 29-year-old virgin, Zii, the bisexual punk rock chick, and Didi, the busty, Amazonian French-Canadian. It's essentially Three's Company but smutty.
This collection includes the first two years of the webcomic, reformatted in a vertical layout. Although the art by Gisèle Lagacé is far more polished and consistent than other nascent webcomics I've read, this volume can't escape its origins on the web. It's essentially plotless, with romantic entanglements and sexual confusion the only real driving force throughout.
The thing about webcomics, though, is that they can be strangely addictive. When I first discovered Questionable Content, I read at least a decade of strips over the course of a few days and I regret nothing.
The tendency in webcomics toward episodic storytelling coupled with ongoing but loosely defined story arcs means that it's all about the characters. Any individual strip is usually about pushing those characters closer together or further apart and changing the status quo so slowly (if ever) that you experience the narrative equivalent of boiling a frog.
I liked this volume enough that I'll probably keep reading even though not much happened besides a lot of nudity, innuendo and silliness. It helps that the art is pretty great and reading it isn't a terrible way to pass the time. Speaking of which, Lagacé has done the occasional work for Archie comics, which makes total sense because her style is perfect for those books.
Ménage a 3 is a French-Canadian webcomic about the sexy hijinks of three roommates - Gary, the 29-year-old virgin, Zii, the bisexual punk rock chick, and Didi, the busty, Amazonian French-Canadian. It's essentially Three's Company but smutty.
This collection includes the first two years of the webcomic, reformatted in a vertical layout. Although the art by Gisèle Lagacé is far more polished and consistent than other nascent webcomics I've read, this volume can't escape its origins on the web. It's essentially plotless, with romantic entanglements and sexual confusion the only real driving force throughout.
The thing about webcomics, though, is that they can be strangely addictive. When I first discovered Questionable Content, I read at least a decade of strips over the course of a few days and I regret nothing.
The tendency in webcomics toward episodic storytelling coupled with ongoing but loosely defined story arcs means that it's all about the characters. Any individual strip is usually about pushing those characters closer together or further apart and changing the status quo so slowly (if ever) that you experience the narrative equivalent of boiling a frog.
I liked this volume enough that I'll probably keep reading even though not much happened besides a lot of nudity, innuendo and silliness. It helps that the art is pretty great and reading it isn't a terrible way to pass the time. Speaking of which, Lagacé has done the occasional work for Archie comics, which makes total sense because her style is perfect for those books.
March 12, 2018
ARC via Netgalley. I've read this as a webcomic, but it was a while ago -- I was curious when I saw it was being released in hard copy. I think this can be a very enjoyable series if you go in with a clear expectation of what you're getting: a sexually explicit soap opera. There's no point to the plot and the humor manages to be both juvenile and overwhelmingly sexual. If you're not okay with about half of the punchlines being "guys think it's hot when girls make out", you're not going to like Menage A 3. But the art is consistently great and I do think as a mostly-loving send-up to the stereotype of the loser virgin comic book nerd it's pretty funny. It's definitely not going to appeal to all audiences, and it should definitely be in the adult section of the library or bookstore!
August 19, 2018
Three's Company + the illustration style of Archie/Magna + films of Edgar Wright = this book!
This was an absolute delight to read. I was devastated when I got to the end because I was enjoying this book so much.
What I loved the most was how Gisele draws her character's expressions/movements. Also, the book is really funny. I think those 2 elements is what it made me feel like I was reading an Edgar Wright film.
Thank you Gisele Lagace and am so EXCITED to read volume 2!
This was an absolute delight to read. I was devastated when I got to the end because I was enjoying this book so much.
What I loved the most was how Gisele draws her character's expressions/movements. Also, the book is really funny. I think those 2 elements is what it made me feel like I was reading an Edgar Wright film.
Thank you Gisele Lagace and am so EXCITED to read volume 2!
December 12, 2018
I have heard about this artist and this comic for a while now, I ran into the artist at New York Comic Con this year and have this graphic novel signed by her. This is a comedy of sexual errors, and I like the humor and heart of the characters. There are even shoutouts to other cultural references like Archie which got a chuckle as the author Giselle has drawn for Archie comics. I am intrigued about following the series.
March 17, 2018
So, Kurt Busiek’s intro describes this as a “sex farce”.
Appropriate.
Frankly, it’s a lot of fun. A collected webcomic, I’m sure it’s been described as a “Three’s Company for our generation.”
An enjoyable read - and definitely rated “R”.
Thanks to NetGalley and Udon Comics for a copy in return for an honest review.
Appropriate.
Frankly, it’s a lot of fun. A collected webcomic, I’m sure it’s been described as a “Three’s Company for our generation.”
An enjoyable read - and definitely rated “R”.
Thanks to NetGalley and Udon Comics for a copy in return for an honest review.
February 20, 2020
It’s unfortunate enough that consent issues are an apparently necessary genre staple, they really didn’t need to add in the transphobia (and homophobic fetishization, and racist/sexist/biphobic fetishization)
March 21, 2018
In a good world this is smutty, silly, childish, peurile, and sexy in a teenager-with-their-hands-in-their-pants kind of way. Trust me, it fails to be any of that.
March 22, 2018
It's dumb sex jokes and lots and lots of boobs. Basically, Three's Company if it aired very late at night on Cinemax.
July 1, 2018
3,5. Rigolo
September 30, 2019
Absolutely Hilarious!
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March 15, 2018
Surprisingly better than I anticipated. The whole thing is full of tropes, but there’s only one straight character out of the entire cast, which is very neat
March 9, 2018
Not my cup of tea. But I wasn't sure what I was getting when I asked for this comic, so it is my fault for being delusional.
May 15, 2018
This comic is like watching a 60s or 70s "sex romp". A lot of jokes, innuendo and nudity, but not much substance. Nice that's it's inclusive in regards to sexual orientations though. It's fun enough for a short time, but not a comic you'll get vested in.
July 30, 2018
This is threes company all grown up and on steroids. A little childish for the grown men who think like prepubescent teens. I didn't really enjoy it all that much since I'm not exactly a prepubescent teen male but the graphics reminded me of mad or Archie comics... Overall not bad and good to read to get you I. The mood
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January 9, 2019.... it gets a lil tiresome if read all in one go, but so much sex hijinks!!
And the cast covers as many bases as possible - Gay couple? why not. You need a weeabo who drops Japanese words every line? Sure! Bisexual punk girl? We got that. Sexy 'exotic' french-speaking girl with breasts bigger than her head? oooh boy we def got that too
And the cast covers as many bases as possible - Gay couple? why not. You need a weeabo who drops Japanese words every line? Sure! Bisexual punk girl? We got that. Sexy 'exotic' french-speaking girl with breasts bigger than her head? oooh boy we def got that too
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