I Went to College, and It Was Okay

Jim's Journal Collection #1

by Scott Dikkers

Cartoons depict the first two year's of a college student's everyday life--going to class, watching television with his roommates, and working part-time at McDonalds

Genres: Humor, Comics, Nonfiction, Graphic Novels

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Scott Dikkers is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of “How to Write Funny.” He's also the founder of TheOnion.com and The AV Club.

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Reviews

[Dave Schaafsma · Rating 4 out of 5]

Eighties humor cartoons from the founder of The Onion, focusing on a guy who is bland, has a straight lime for a mouth at all times, just going through the motions, a kind of critique of the average college student as Dikkkers saw him (or himself as college student). One of five collections from his work, Jim's Journal, also including the equally droll

I Got a Job and it wasn't that bad: The Second Collection of Jim's Journal Cartoons
I Made Some Brownies and they were pretty good: The Third Jim's Journal Collection
I Got Married if you can believe that: The Fourth Collection of Jim's Journal Cartoons
I Feel Like A Grown-Up Now: The Fifth Jim's Journal Collection
The Pretty Good Jim's Journal Treasury: The Definitive Collection of Every Published Cartoon
I Finally Graduated from High School: The Sixth Collection of Jim's Journal Cartoons

Jim's Journal isn't that bad.

[Keith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Man, I remember graduating college and living in NYC and being absolutely consumed by the day-in, day-out meaningless of my own existence. Then I read a bunch of Jim's Journal, sitting on the floor of St. Mark's Comics over the course of several weekday afternoons, and felt those anxieties reverberate on themselves as my life was reflected back at me in all its empty, endless horror. Come to think of it, I probably have Jim's Journal to thank for the existential crisis that consumed me for the following decade.

It's either that, or yknow, just the grim truth that we really are all just poorly-rendered caricatures, wasting away in three-panel increments, caught inside an unchanging, wretched, yawning void.

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is so cute and funny--it's funny because it's not funny, if that makes any sense. I read this during college and so I thought it was hilarious.

[Newly Wardell · Rating 2 out of 5]

the illustrations aren't great. the story had a lot to make up for and it didnt. I don't think it's wrong to expect something to happen and this comic is basically about watching tv. I don't like comics about watching tv.

[Michael Wilkes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Iconic dotcom era humor...

[Kristy Buzbee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bland yet oddly entertaining - a series of simple stick figure chronicling the first two years of college. And no, nothing exciting really happens. XD

[Jamespc · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great little cartoon memoir. Not a very funny cartoon, but that's what makes it work. It's not funny because it's all too real.