A Dose of Awkward: Left-Handed Toons

by Drew Mokris, Justin Boyd

There's an old saying that goes, "It's okay if my pancakes aren't perfectly round, they still taste good when I eat them in my mouth." In fact, sometimes the wonkiest-shaped pancakes taste best, right?

Nothing espouses that age-old pancake philosophy better than this collection of nearly 200 comics - and almost none of them have anything to do with pancakes.

We've chosen the best cartoons from the popular website www.lefthandedtoons.com , and some never-before-seen ones too. Every last one was painfully drawn in ink using only left hands. And no one doing the drawing was left-handed.
So open up this book, and open new mental avenues of absurdity.
This book is best served doused in syrup and butter.

Genres: Comics

192 pages, Paperback

First published August 26, 2009

Reviews

[Steve · Rating 3 out of 5]

A great collection of the messiest comics you will ever see. The jokes are all over the place, but the style is so unique it should not be missed.

[LJ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Many years ago, I used to read the Left-Handed Toons webcomic. In fact, it was probably the first webcomic I ever came across. Anyway, they were great. One day you'd get Drew Mokris's comic and the next you'd get Justin Boyd's. Sometimes there were recurring characters, often it was random. The gimmick was two right-handed people were drawing with their left hands so it was all scribbly. Mokris was a much stronger artist, but I usually found Boyd's funnier.

Anyway, this is a collection of some of those cartoons. And I did not find it particularly funny. I don't know if this is because I just didn't enjoy this selection or because I have grown and changed as a person since I used to read Left-Handed Toons and it just isn't my kind of thing any more. Shrug.

[Izzy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love this book so much. It's pretty nostalgic for me--I've been carrying it around since probably 7th or 8th grade, when my best friend and I (yes, we're still best friends) found it in the humor section of our local Borders (that doesn't exist anymore). It's been a minute since I read it, but most of the jokes are still pretty good/some of them I actually understand better now that I'm older. Some of them aren't that funny or don't make sense, but the whole point of these comics is that they're just silly dumb jokes and shower thoughts that two best friends had a good time making. It's just a tiny book of joy.