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Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed?
Will You Still Love Me If I Wet The Bed? started out as an exercise in keeping a personal comic journal of the finer points of a relationship, but quickly evolved to become Liz Prince's first solo full length comic. Described as a mix between Jeffrey Brown and James Kochalka, Liz's comic is made up of short vignettes that capture all the cute, gross, and endearing aspects of relationships.
80 pages, Paperback
First published October 18, 2005
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Liz Prince
51 books604 followersI have been a comic artist and a self-publisher since I was in high school in the mid-90's. In 2005 my book Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed? was published by Top Shelf Productions; it won an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Debut. Top Shelf has since published two more of my autobio comic collections, Delayed Replays in 2008, and Alone Forever earlier this year. In September my first full length graphic novel, a memoir about adolescence and gender stereotypes called Tomboy, comes out from Zest Books.
I have had comics published in numerous anthologies, drawn stories for the wildly popular Adventure Time series, and I am a columnist for the punk magazine Razorcake.
Currently my cat Dracula is sitting on my lap, and his sister Wolfman is giving him the side-eye.
I have had comics published in numerous anthologies, drawn stories for the wildly popular Adventure Time series, and I am a columnist for the punk magazine Razorcake.
Currently my cat Dracula is sitting on my lap, and his sister Wolfman is giving him the side-eye.
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March 27, 2015
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Liz Prince really hit it out of the park for me earlier this year when I read her memoir Tomboy. Unfortunately, instead of another home run Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed? was only like a double. Most of this little book is for those of you who are still in the “Schmoopie” phase. Are any of you even old enough to get that reference????
I’ve never been much of a “Schmoopie” type of gal. It makes me want to . . .
Yeah.
Add in the fact that I’ve been married for 38 dog years and I really couldn’t relate to some of the over-the-top adorableness contained inside this teensie little tribute. That being said, there were some panels that I loved.
Like being married to someone who knows how to conveniently use women’s lib against you . . .
or sharing your bed with a terrifying sleeptalker . . .
who is honest to a fault . . .
and thinks B.J. jokes never get old . . .
Someone with a real butthole of a kitten that he loves, but that HATES you . . .
(yeah, Django, I’m talking about you, you little a$$hole)
and still attempts to argue about who has the more disgusting feet . . .
Let the record show that having opposable toes is a BONUS and something everyone else in the world should be jealous of. Having weird frinkly half pinky toes is an abomination and if you were a wild animal your mother might have killed you at birth.
I’m definitely not the lovey dovey type so I would never think of penning something like this. Buuuuuuut in my defense I do my best to express my feelings the way I know how : )
Liz Prince really hit it out of the park for me earlier this year when I read her memoir Tomboy. Unfortunately, instead of another home run Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed? was only like a double. Most of this little book is for those of you who are still in the “Schmoopie” phase. Are any of you even old enough to get that reference????
I’ve never been much of a “Schmoopie” type of gal. It makes me want to . . .
Yeah.
Add in the fact that I’ve been married for 38 dog years and I really couldn’t relate to some of the over-the-top adorableness contained inside this teensie little tribute. That being said, there were some panels that I loved.
Like being married to someone who knows how to conveniently use women’s lib against you . . .
or sharing your bed with a terrifying sleeptalker . . .
who is honest to a fault . . .
and thinks B.J. jokes never get old . . .
Someone with a real butthole of a kitten that he loves, but that HATES you . . .
(yeah, Django, I’m talking about you, you little a$$hole)
and still attempts to argue about who has the more disgusting feet . . .
Let the record show that having opposable toes is a BONUS and something everyone else in the world should be jealous of. Having weird frinkly half pinky toes is an abomination and if you were a wild animal your mother might have killed you at birth.
I’m definitely not the lovey dovey type so I would never think of penning something like this. Buuuuuuut in my defense I do my best to express my feelings the way I know how : )
January 7, 2015
Liz Prince kisses her boyfriend's hand, then turns it over and kisses the other side – she calls it “corn on the cob kisses”! Liz’s cat Science sits on the bed while she and her boyfriend smooch – what a lil perve! Liz’s boyfriend puts Cheerios in her underpants – because her butt might be hungry! Being in love is nice, yaaaaay!
If you’re scrunching up your face and fighting back the vomit after reading that, this comic won’t be for you. If you’re giggling like an anime girl (and probably wearing a bow) and went DAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWW!!! at least once, you’re gonna love this comic. Will You Still Love Me If I Wet The Bed? (not a bad title, I’ll give it that) is a super-cutesy series of one-page vignettes about Liz and her boyfriend’s relationship.
They’re a really, really overly-cutesy hipster couple! Violence did cross my mind at least once while reading about Liz’s mundane, near-idiotic relationship with a fellow adult child. I can vaguely see the publisher’s comparisons to James Kochalka, who produces similarly “cute” comics, but I don’t remember Kochalka’s being this syrupy, even his children’s books! Some moments are slightly amusing but they’re so brief – it really is a quick read at 70-ish pages, even for a comic.
The drawing style looks exactly like what it is: an art student learning to make comics. They’re extremely sketchy, much like early Jeffrey Brown (who provides a brief intro), but even Brown didn’t leave some of the outlines still visible(maybe that was the point – to emphasise her inexperience with the form?). It’s a first book so it’s forgivable and I have seen her recent work which is more polished, but it’s still hard to look at. We’re talking barely a shade above thumbnails!
I don’t want to come down on Prince for being happy but when it’s nothing but exultant happiness throughout it comes off as vapid and a little irritating. I suppose if you like relationship comics that are snapshots of a mega-super-hyper-cute relationship rather than actual stories, and you share Liz Prince’s mindset/are so deliriously in love that you’re unable to stop mashing frosting and glitter into your eyes, you’ll enjoy this.
If you’re scrunching up your face and fighting back the vomit after reading that, this comic won’t be for you. If you’re giggling like an anime girl (and probably wearing a bow) and went DAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWW!!! at least once, you’re gonna love this comic. Will You Still Love Me If I Wet The Bed? (not a bad title, I’ll give it that) is a super-cutesy series of one-page vignettes about Liz and her boyfriend’s relationship.
They’re a really, really overly-cutesy hipster couple! Violence did cross my mind at least once while reading about Liz’s mundane, near-idiotic relationship with a fellow adult child. I can vaguely see the publisher’s comparisons to James Kochalka, who produces similarly “cute” comics, but I don’t remember Kochalka’s being this syrupy, even his children’s books! Some moments are slightly amusing but they’re so brief – it really is a quick read at 70-ish pages, even for a comic.
The drawing style looks exactly like what it is: an art student learning to make comics. They’re extremely sketchy, much like early Jeffrey Brown (who provides a brief intro), but even Brown didn’t leave some of the outlines still visible(maybe that was the point – to emphasise her inexperience with the form?). It’s a first book so it’s forgivable and I have seen her recent work which is more polished, but it’s still hard to look at. We’re talking barely a shade above thumbnails!
I don’t want to come down on Prince for being happy but when it’s nothing but exultant happiness throughout it comes off as vapid and a little irritating. I suppose if you like relationship comics that are snapshots of a mega-super-hyper-cute relationship rather than actual stories, and you share Liz Prince’s mindset/are so deliriously in love that you’re unable to stop mashing frosting and glitter into your eyes, you’ll enjoy this.
July 15, 2007
Priceless. PRICELESS I TELL YOU! My only criticism is that people's crotches are, like, totally non-anatomically wide compared to the size of their legs. Actually, I take it back, I like it that way.
Boston.
Boston.
May 10, 2020
Re-read 2020: Cute read though again the pee thing was just a big fat NOPE for me. Ewww. But the rest was adorable and I had quite a few giggles, laughs, and awws while reading it. Again, I love the cover and the title (which is based on a question Liz asks her boyfriend). Happy to have re-read this one after almost 5 years. I still got some Liz Prince books left to re-read so I will be reading those soon.
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The next and last in the Liz Prince books (though not the last in reviews).
This one is all about Liz and her boyfriend Kevin. All of it. It was really fun to read it, though at times I was a bit disturbed with things in there. Like the whole pee thing? Hugging while someone is peeing or peeing over someone else their pee.... Eww, and no thank you. I can imagine there might be couples who like doing this, but I don't need to know. Also the one comic about cheetos (or whatever they were) and that Kevin put them in Liz her underwear........ No.
However, there were several things that I recognize from my relationships and they had me nodding along or cheering.
It was a really fun book and I had several times that I was laughing out loud at the comics or showing them to my boyfriend. :)
Also +points to the title, that one really drew me in.
I would say that this book is 16/18+, this due to various things like sex, boners and of course the whole peeing thing that they seem to love so much.
The art was something that was really lacking. You can clearly see the difference between the now Liz and the then Liz. Or maybe she just didn't have a good editor back then, but sorry, the art was at times just a bit ugly. There were helplines (again, no clue what they are actually called, I will just call them helplines) and sometimes I had to really look close to, for instance, see that what she was flashing were boobs not just roles of cookies.
But all in all this was a fun book, sad though it was so small and short. I knew it was short, but it was a really tiny book.
Review first posted at http://twirlingbookprincess.com/
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The next and last in the Liz Prince books (though not the last in reviews).
This one is all about Liz and her boyfriend Kevin. All of it. It was really fun to read it, though at times I was a bit disturbed with things in there. Like the whole pee thing? Hugging while someone is peeing or peeing over someone else their pee.... Eww, and no thank you. I can imagine there might be couples who like doing this, but I don't need to know. Also the one comic about cheetos (or whatever they were) and that Kevin put them in Liz her underwear........ No.
However, there were several things that I recognize from my relationships and they had me nodding along or cheering.
It was a really fun book and I had several times that I was laughing out loud at the comics or showing them to my boyfriend. :)
Also +points to the title, that one really drew me in.
I would say that this book is 16/18+, this due to various things like sex, boners and of course the whole peeing thing that they seem to love so much.
The art was something that was really lacking. You can clearly see the difference between the now Liz and the then Liz. Or maybe she just didn't have a good editor back then, but sorry, the art was at times just a bit ugly. There were helplines (again, no clue what they are actually called, I will just call them helplines) and sometimes I had to really look close to, for instance, see that what she was flashing were boobs not just roles of cookies.
But all in all this was a fun book, sad though it was so small and short. I knew it was short, but it was a really tiny book.
Review first posted at http://twirlingbookprincess.com/
January 2, 2016
These are some of the cutest couple interactions ever caught on paper :)
April 27, 2015
I like everything Liz Prince does, or that I have read so far. I loved Tomboy, one of the best graphic novels of last year, a memoir, and this is like everything else from her so far, a memoir, though Tomboy is directed more to a YA audience, and this is to… young lovers, wherever you are…. lalalalalala…. Drawn by art student Liz in sketchy Jeffery Brown (who drew the intro) and James Kochalka (who drew the "bio"-pic of Prince) fashion, this book from a decade ago still has the lines from the first sketching of her two characters underneath her faces. It's quick sketch art, and is therefore more real and vulnerable and cuter (a word you will read several times in this volume!!) because of that sketchiness. It has a great title, and will give you a few smiles. Basically oohing happens but hugging and cuddling and cat scratches. This is about young, college-age or twenty-something love, not quite fully adult love, being silly with each other, crazy for each other, and it might just make you smile quite a bit if it isn't too nauseating for you. I liked it a lot. I mean, it's not about breaking up, it's about just hanging out, cuddling, kissing, sleeping with your boyfriend, etc. So you don't like this, you unhappy, cynical person? Deal with it! Go read some Nietzche! :)
Did I say yet how much I love the size of this book and books like it? I kind of have the feeling that if all books were 3 x7, the world would be a happier place.
Did I say yet how much I love the size of this book and books like it? I kind of have the feeling that if all books were 3 x7, the world would be a happier place.
October 10, 2010
This book is PERFECT. It has it all! It is short and sweet, silly and dorky, cute and smart. I absolutely loved it. I gobbled it up in one sitting. OMG I love Liz Prince. New favorite person. Yay!
March 29, 2015
SO ADORABLE. Liz and Kevin's relationship is the absolute cutest, at least how it is portrayed in her comics ^.^
September 19, 2016
Ok, first - beware. This book is tiny. Like, not a great deal bigger than my phone, tiny.
I actually read it and am reviewing it sooner because I'm terrified I'm going to lose the library copy I have.
I read Prince's Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir first, and then put this on hold. As far as the form goes, it is very similar in concept to Soppy, something I read less than a month ago. Definitely don't go into this expecting something as polished as either of those books. It could easily be a daily comic, with moments in life, focusing on her relationships with her paramour.
In many panels, you can see the thumbnailing outlines* faintly under her final images. It's sketchy (but not necessarily in a bad way). The style (b&w, obvs) fits, to an extent, with the content, which is occasionally crass and crude, and honest (I assume) about the intimate dynamic of this very specific couple.
Cute, super fast read (it might have taken me a half hour).
I see that she has several other works focusing on her early dating life, so I imagine this could be an especially satisfying read if you've watched her try and fail to find her partner through a book or two.
Read if you like people enthusing about their happy relationships.
*Anyone know what those are called? Circles with lines across to show perspective on a head, for example?
I actually read it and am reviewing it sooner because I'm terrified I'm going to lose the library copy I have.
I read Prince's Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir first, and then put this on hold. As far as the form goes, it is very similar in concept to Soppy, something I read less than a month ago. Definitely don't go into this expecting something as polished as either of those books. It could easily be a daily comic, with moments in life, focusing on her relationships with her paramour.
In many panels, you can see the thumbnailing outlines* faintly under her final images. It's sketchy (but not necessarily in a bad way). The style (b&w, obvs) fits, to an extent, with the content, which is occasionally crass and crude, and honest (I assume) about the intimate dynamic of this very specific couple.
Cute, super fast read (it might have taken me a half hour).
I see that she has several other works focusing on her early dating life, so I imagine this could be an especially satisfying read if you've watched her try and fail to find her partner through a book or two.
Read if you like people enthusing about their happy relationships.
*Anyone know what those are called? Circles with lines across to show perspective on a head, for example?
August 15, 2008
The good news is that Liz Prince keeps improving the more comics she does, but the bad news is that this is her first book. I know I talked shit about Jeffrey Brown in my review of her other book, so... I don't know, I just think his comics are kind of boring. And these remind me of that too much. They're not as funny or vicious or hilarious or anything.
Still, they are better than, y'know, webcomics.
Still, they are better than, y'know, webcomics.
June 24, 2009
sorry, maybe the 2 stars is a bit unfair because this book IS cute, but perhaps too cute. i don't know, i guess i've been reading jeffrey brown for so long now that i expect agony and heartwrenching moments when it comes to love in panels...
February 18, 2017
Totally adorable 15-minute read. What can I say, comics about nerdy relationships between short-haired bespectacled girls and drummer boys are pretty much like reading weird doppelgänger memoirs.
June 3, 2021
What is really interesting how many books are written about love! We know what is love, and still it is enigma for us...Does love last forever ? Or maybe it can finish?! And what do we feel when we love? With love it is always more questions then answers ! But the brilliance of love is that when you love you open yourself from the best side. When you love you are the best version of yourself. And just for this the love worth searching for...
And never enough reading !
And never enough reading !
February 5, 2022
i like the style and it inspired me so look into similar stories and moments within my life but it didnt occur to me that i am not that interested in hearing the intimate moments of a cishet relationship.
March 29, 2022
I love those cute couples comics. You know the ones you see on Facebook where the couples are quirky and adorable and it's super relatable? This was cute. Some were meh. And it was super short.
June 30, 2010
I ordered this on Amazon after hearing it described as a comic that captures "the cute, gross, and true aspects of relationships," and was sourly disappointed. I guess considering my current series' I was expecting it to be a lot more about the true intimacies of relationships, similar to Jeffrey Brown (who even does a forward) in it's ability to focus on the mundane, gross, weird moments that show our true romantic relationships.
It doesn't do that at all.. I felt like I was reading a comic from a 15 year old girl in her first relationship. She doesn't include any realness whatsover in these strips, simply the cute small moments of her happiness. The word "yay!" was in the comic AT LEAST 25 times.
It was just too cute. The title is definitely misleading, as well as the description. It's merely the random cute moments between her and her significant other.
But she does have a cat named Science, that rules.
It doesn't do that at all.. I felt like I was reading a comic from a 15 year old girl in her first relationship. She doesn't include any realness whatsover in these strips, simply the cute small moments of her happiness. The word "yay!" was in the comic AT LEAST 25 times.
It was just too cute. The title is definitely misleading, as well as the description. It's merely the random cute moments between her and her significant other.
But she does have a cat named Science, that rules.
August 19, 2014
Cute! And one of the tiniest books I've ever read, about the size of a 3x5 index card. These are one page strips about Liz and her partner, Kevin. I presume these are at least semi-autobiographical. They certainly have the ring of truth about them. While at least some of these are quite funny, the real appeal, for me at least, is in their charm. Anyone who's ever been, or is currently, in a relationship will recognize themselves in these strips, the secret jokes, the shared smiles, the warm glow ... It all comes through clear as day in this book. (Note: Those unlucky souls in the midst of a breakup should probably not read this book as they will likely use the pages to wipe away the bitter tears and/or tear it to shreds in a fit of rage. The world, alas, is cruel at times.) Prince's style reminds me of a scratchier version of Jeffrey Brown, maybe with a touch of James Kocholka. Good stuff!
November 19, 2007
There is no other word for this book. CUTE. This is a cute book. Little comics with little drawings in a little book about a cute little couple who do cute little things… well, sometimes they do odd things. Real odd things. Things that make me think, “If I were in a relationship, and my significant other said that to me (there’s a part where the guy hugs the girl while she’s peeing on the toilet saying something like, “I want to squeeze the pee out of you!”… I might rethink the whole dynamic of the relationship. Then again, I am not cute. I am not little. I have never been in a cute little relationship. So maybe I don’t understand why I would ever feel the need to hug someone while they pee. But at least I can find the charming in this little book. This cute little book.
November 9, 2010
Don't really read that 2 stars as a negative review. This collection of short comics chronicling the writer's relationship is very cute.
While that is a good thing, it is also the doom of this collection as well. It is entirely too cute. Prince gives glimpses of troubles within cutesville (whispered apologies, etc...) but never goes into those stories. So many indie comic writers cover those darker moments that you have to commend Prince for "going there," for daring to be happy. At the same time, it also comes across as being more than a bit shallow in my opinion.
Also, what was up with the fascination with peeing? I found that more than a bit odd. Maybe just me....
While that is a good thing, it is also the doom of this collection as well. It is entirely too cute. Prince gives glimpses of troubles within cutesville (whispered apologies, etc...) but never goes into those stories. So many indie comic writers cover those darker moments that you have to commend Prince for "going there," for daring to be happy. At the same time, it also comes across as being more than a bit shallow in my opinion.
Also, what was up with the fascination with peeing? I found that more than a bit odd. Maybe just me....
October 22, 2015
This is a laugh-out-loud funny and relatable collection of comics depicting Liz and Kevin's relationship. It's honest, adorable, and a little bit weird, but most of all it's just enjoyable.
I preferred the cleaner, more polished artwork in Prince's Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir to the rougher, more raw artwork in Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed?. However, it makes sense that this book's artwork would be a bit rougher than that in Tomboy, since Tomboy was written 9 years after Will You Still Love Me...
I preferred the cleaner, more polished artwork in Prince's Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir to the rougher, more raw artwork in Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed?. However, it makes sense that this book's artwork would be a bit rougher than that in Tomboy, since Tomboy was written 9 years after Will You Still Love Me...
October 14, 2007
I found this book at Comic Relief Bookstore in Berkeley. I pulled out another book and off the shelf this little one tumbled. It made me smile because it immediately reminded me of Paul (Would you date me if I talked like this: Rarrreggr? What if I didn't have arms?) I opened it up to a comic strip that is a perfect example of what it is like to sleep next to talking Paul, and the crazy things he tells me in his sleep. I bought the book and got to pet the resident kitty, Ash, on the way out. Perfect.
June 24, 2008
Maybe just three stars isn't fair. It's not that I don't like this book or Liz Prince's work or think the former's not representative of the latter. It's wickedly cute, and it captures much about a snuggle-based, consuming love. It's just that, when it comes down to it, it's a series of one-page strips without a continuous narrative. And they're sweet and as amusing as anything else she's done. It just feels odd to give it more than three stars. Unfair? Maybe.
August 31, 2017
Very funny and cute illustrations. I totally fell in love with this book at first glance. It contains all of the things you wish that exists in your relationship. Memorizing each other's body parts by heart, being comfortable with one another, just being your gross and true self. This book is the epitome of rad and cool.
February 6, 2009
saw it at comic con and liked the title, but wasn't crazy about it.
February 15, 2009
This comic is one of my favorite things that exist. Liz Prince and I both cry over ice cream.
January 6, 2013
Hehehehehe... so cute... and some of them were kinda true... :)
July 29, 2014
I continue to love everything Liz Prince creates and this is no different. Very cute short love stories
December 5, 2015
Cute .. I love Liz ❤️
she writes in a delightful way..
This reminds me of Jeffrey Brown's Clumsy .. But she's way better ❤️❤️
she writes in a delightful way..
This reminds me of Jeffrey Brown's Clumsy .. But she's way better ❤️❤️
November 12, 2015
I'm torn, because I like Liz Prince and this is adorable.
Much. Too. Adorable.
They are the cutest couple in the world, apparently. And it is annoying.
Much. Too. Adorable.
They are the cutest couple in the world, apparently. And it is annoying.
March 7, 2017
Four stars for the book itself, one extra star for how happy I was when my girlfriend sent it in a surprise care package during our LDR
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