82. Cat Kid Comic Club

Cat Kid Comic Club. (Cat Kid Comic Club #1) Dav Pilkey. 2020. [December] 176 pages. [Source: Library]

First sentence: Hey, guys...welcome to the first meeting of the Cat Kid Comic Club!!!

Premise/plot: Baby frogs learn how to comic in Dav Pilkey's new graphic novel Cat Kid Comic Club. Li'l Petey, Flippy, and Molly take turns teaching (guiding, advising, helping) the frogs how to create their own comic books. This includes brainstorming, writing and revising, drawing, learning to accept failure, critiquing etc. Their works are presented throughout.

My thoughts: I have absolutely no idea why it is called the Cat Kid Comic Club. The only possible cat is Li'l Petey. There are some fish characters and some frog characters. (Though they look to me more tadpoles than frogs). But while cats may be scarce--or actual (human) kids--comics abound. Some of the teachers have to learn how to be chill as they read some of the comics. Not every comic will appeal to every reader. (Some comics are 90% bathroom humor). But I think there's a good variety. Humor is to be found--even if not in every single comic.

My personal favorites were Dennis the Toothbrush Who Wanted to Be a Dinosaur Lawyer and Monster Cheese Sandwich.

 

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