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Running on Alter Ego
When Pat Brady puts pen to paper, readers can't resist following his original images and tight story lines. This creator pulls more material from the one-child Gumbo family than other cartoonists can with five times the number of characters and settings.
That magic comes through in Brady's seventh collection, Rose is Rose Running on Alter Ego . The lively series of daily and Sunday strips revolves around Rose—devoted wife and doting mother—who, try as she might, just can't keep her biker chick fantasies totally in check. Rose never knows, as she manages her blue-collar husband, Jimbo, and their energy-fired son, Pasquale, when Vicki the Biker may show up. But when the long-haired, short-skirted babe surfaces, it's always with a breath of fresh air and a fresh take on "normal" family life.
Besides appearing on the cover, Rose as Vicki shines throughout the collection, in six new full-page drawings created just for the book. Each shows the seemingly satisfied housewife's alter ego performing some mundane chore demanded by Rose's less adventurous life, while Brady's usual mix of family fun, frolic, and fancy gives Gumbo fans plenty of delight.
That magic comes through in Brady's seventh collection, Rose is Rose Running on Alter Ego . The lively series of daily and Sunday strips revolves around Rose—devoted wife and doting mother—who, try as she might, just can't keep her biker chick fantasies totally in check. Rose never knows, as she manages her blue-collar husband, Jimbo, and their energy-fired son, Pasquale, when Vicki the Biker may show up. But when the long-haired, short-skirted babe surfaces, it's always with a breath of fresh air and a fresh take on "normal" family life.
Besides appearing on the cover, Rose as Vicki shines throughout the collection, in six new full-page drawings created just for the book. Each shows the seemingly satisfied housewife's alter ego performing some mundane chore demanded by Rose's less adventurous life, while Brady's usual mix of family fun, frolic, and fancy gives Gumbo fans plenty of delight.
128 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2005
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Pat Brady
25 books8 followersPat Brady is an American cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Rose Is Rose, syndicated by United Feature Syndicate since 1983.
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November 14, 2014
A Rose Is Rose collection. Tending toward the sweet. Featuring a large number of one featuring Rose's alter ego Vicki the biker.
Like the time she urges Pasquale down the stairs in the morning
Some of the funniest are the standalones. One strip has Rose wearing a Cat Person shirt -- and Peekaboo wearing a People Cat shirt. Another has a water drop urging some smaller ones into snowflakes, and then the falling snowflakes explaining to Pasquale that they were late because their mothers insisted on their putting on their winter coats.
And some sweet sequences, such as the time as Pasquale's reflection got out of the mirror. Alas, their mothers checked, so Pasquale's is happy, but the reflection's is still looking for him. He needs Pasquale's help to get back.
Like the time she urges Pasquale down the stairs in the morning
Some of the funniest are the standalones. One strip has Rose wearing a Cat Person shirt -- and Peekaboo wearing a People Cat shirt. Another has a water drop urging some smaller ones into snowflakes, and then the falling snowflakes explaining to Pasquale that they were late because their mothers insisted on their putting on their winter coats.
And some sweet sequences, such as the time as Pasquale's reflection got out of the mirror. Alas, their mothers checked, so Pasquale's is happy, but the reflection's is still looking for him. He needs Pasquale's help to get back.
December 9, 2009
Have you ever felt a slight amount of multiple personalities inside your own self? Rose is rose calls them alter egos and they are fun to read and see on the page.
April 11, 2012
Mildly amusing if badly rendered comic strip reprinted here. The love in the family is appealing, but the heavy dose of Catholicism is off-putting. For fans only.
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