Zits Unzipped—Sketchbook #5

The comic strip Zits has become one of the most popular strips on the comics pages today. The humorous daily life of parents Connie and Walt Duncan and the teenager they own and operate, Jeremy, are presented as an open book for all to read in Zits Unzipped. In this collection, creators Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman chronicle the life of 15-year-old Jeremy Duncan as if there were a camera following his every confused adolescent move. He has to be dragged out of bed at noon during summer vacation. He agonizes over and dissects every syllable of a cryptic exchange he's just had with his girlfriend, Sara. He almost bursts with the questions, concerns, and insecurities of teenagerhood, yet fends off every attempt by his mom to get him to talk with a standard "I dunno."

With its perfect blend of teenage reality and clever humor, Zits Unzipped delivers laughs for Zits' faithful readers and new fans alike.

Zits creators Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman received the National Cartoonists Society Best Newspaper Comic Strip Award in 1998 and in 1999, and were presented with the Max and Moritz Prize for Best International Comic Strip in 2000. Jerry, the writing side of the duo, is also cocreator of the immensely popular Baby Blues strip and lives in Malibu, Calif. Jim is an editorial cartoonist for the Cincinnati Enquirer and is the only cartoonist to win the National Cartoonists Society's Best Editorial Cartoonist Award three years in a row. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio