Rose Is Rose in Loving Color: A Collection of Sunday Rose Is Rose Comics

by Pat Brady

Cartoons follow a family of three and their cat throughout the year, including family New Year's celebrations, snowy days, summer picnics, gardening, and fall football

Genres: Comics, Humor, Comic Strips, Cartoon

128 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1999

About the author

Pat Brady is an American cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Rose Is Rose, syndicated by United Feature Syndicate since 1983.

Reviews

[Sharon Barrow Wilfong]

There was a time when I considered this strip a little too syrupy sweet. Sigh. Nowadays, I find the optimism and love abounding in this comic book to be refreshing and a relief in this grey, cynical world.

[Fredrik Strömberg]

My wife constantly picks out books to read from my library and leaves them about the house. Sometimes I can't help myself, but pick them up and start reading even though I've read these books several times and have a huge backlog of unread books, starring at me from my to-read book shelf.

In this case I'm really glad I did, and got to re-aquatint myself with Pat Brady's Rose is Rose. This is just the best, somewhat like Calvin and Hobbes in its heyday. Brady walks the thin line between cute and sickeningly sweet like a pro and gets away with things that a lesser cartoonist would just turn into a sugary mess.

Not only does these strips contain beautiful messages of love, family, living your dreams and so on, they are really innovative visually, in a way that reminds me of Cliff Sterret's classic Polly and her Pals, and that's praise indeed.

Ok, so now I'll have a hard time to taking dine more Rose is Rose books from the shelf. I haven't got time for this, or maybe that's exactly what I've got.

[Mary Catelli]

A collection of Sunday strips.

Brightly colored, cheerful, light (with the biggest problem occasional grumpiness). No continuing plot-lines. A lot of expressionist comics showing their mental processes -- and quite a few where the line blurs between the expressionist and the real.

[Mel]

the colorful rose