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Perfect Example

A melancholic memoir of saying goodbye to the familiar Road trips, drunken concerts, and late-night make-out sessions all swirl together in this coming-of-age graphic novel by King Cat cartoonist John Porcellino. Tackling the pain and uncertainty of the pivotal summer before college, Porcellino's sad and beautiful story is drawn in his sincere, minimalist style. Deceptively and charmingly simple, Perfect Example is a collection of Porcellino's self-published King Cat comics, which have won over thousands of readers with their honesty, empathy, and sincerity.

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

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John Porcellino

57 books214 followers
JOHN PORCELLINO was born in Chicago, in 1968, and has been writing, drawing, and publishing minicomics, comics, and graphic novels for over twenty-five years. His celebrated self-published series King-Cat Comics , begun in 1989, has inspired a generation of cartoonists. Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man , a collection of King-Cat stories about Porcellino’s experiences as a pest control worker, won an Ignatz Award in 2005, and Perfect Example , first published in 2000, chronicles his struggles with depression as a teenager. Thoreau at Walden is a poetic expression of the great philosopher’s experience and ideals, and King-Cat Classix and Map of My Heart , published by Drawn and Quarterly, comprise the first two volumes of a comprehensive King-Cat history.

According to cartoonist Chris Ware, "John Porcellino's comics distill, in just a few lines and words, the feeling of simply being alive."

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Profile Image for Fugo Feedback.
5,329 reviews181 followers
January 13, 2015
Ay, pobre chico rico que tiene tristeza. Por favor, que alguien le extirpe el ombligo cuanto antes que se lo va a tragar entero y a todos los que lo rodean. Y si de paso alguien le dona una mano con algo de talento, mejor.
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870 reviews47 followers
September 24, 2026
Si Chris Ware y Chester Brown alaban esto, por supuesto, debo ser yo el equivocado.

Lo que en principio me incomodó, fue lo que me terminó gustando digamos.
Dibujos hechos por un nene de cuatro años pero con cierto criterio.
El principal problema, que para algunos podrá ser su mayor virtud, es que no son historias, no tienen principio, final moraleja. Es como una anécdota.

El tipo está triste por la adolescencia y blabla, pero por ejemplo, en una exageración del minimalismo, una viñeta, uno dice joke, el otro laugh,,, o sea... Pasa también con diálogo.. a veces no hay diálogo. Chit, chat dicen en la viñeta.

Para esto, dame a Tomine, no entiendo en qué otra parte estaré equivocado que Drawn&Quaterly publica material así.
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1,604 reviews95 followers
June 23, 2014
Ejemplo perfecto de buenas historias narradas con un estilo simplón en lo visual pero llegador en lo personal, tal como avalan referentes de la talla de Chris Ware y Chester Brown.
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