"What
an odd, sweet, surreal and hilarous adventure from Newgarden and Cash. It's
what Crockett Johnson, Ernie Bushmiller and Rod Serling might have come up
with if they shared a bench at the doggie park, I love it!"
Lane
Smith
"Bow-Wow
is like Bee-Bop; you can read it quick or spend your time with it. Either
way, it swings."
Mo
Willems
Reviews:
A
little black speck of a bug leads a feisty yellow terrier on an increasingly
surreal trip around his neighborhood in a brilliantly whimsical wordless romp.
When the bug descends on Bow-Wow's dog dish, a scowl descends on his features
and off he sets to teach it a lesson. Comic-strip panels advance the action
with perfect pacing, the Photoshopped sameness of Bow-Wow's suburban neighborhood
providing a bland, impossibly regular background to ever more zany situations,
which include meeting mirror images of himself and the bug, encountering giant-sized
versions of both himself and the bug and armies of bug-pursuing dogs and dog-pursuing
bugs. Long shots and close-ups hilariously assist in the progress of the narrative,
cinematic convention adapting perfectly to the medium. The aforementioned
blandly regular background combines with bold, clean lines and a sunnily uncomplicated
palette to keep what might in other hands be a rather terrifying journey into
1950s horror/sci fi from overwhelming young readers. Call it a kinder, gentler
Twilight Zone in which the doughty protagonist is allowed to return home to
bowl and bed at the end of the day. Thoroughly inspired.
Kirkus
Reviews (starred review)
"Eminently
charming...enormously fresh and modern"
Publishers Weekly
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"Get
"Bow-Wow Bugs a Bug"
Critical
Shopper, NY Times
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"Brilliant...The
art has a cozy, old-fashioned comic-strip look...there's a lot of swift action,
and it can be some time before the reader realizes that there is no text..."
New
York Newsday
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"The weirdest bit of kidlit fluff I've seen in a very long time...(Newgarden
and Cash) know how to play for laughs by balancing out visual humor with sheer
out-and-out ridiculousness. Impressive."
Fuse#8
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"The
clever circular plot is funny, quirky, and even suspenseful, working well
as a wordless picture book."
The
School Library Journal (starred
review)
"(I was) shocked and delighted...I found myself laughing out loud at the absurdity
and approachability of this title."
Practially
Paradise, The blog of the School Library Journal
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"Appealing...simple
black lines and dots do the speaking."
The Horn Book
"Hip
and witty"
Family
Fun Magazine
"Involving,
amusing and even surprisingly surrealistic."
Infodad.com
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"Silly
and sophisticated"
Journal
Star
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"Utterly
absurd and adorable all at once, this is the first in a range of children's/all-ages'
comic strip albums in which Bow-Wow, a new canine cartoon superstar, is born."
Paul
Gravett, on Comics and Graphic Novels
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"It
has the series of escalating variations and freaky non-logic of most kids'
books I liked at that age, and the satisfying, warm ending that kids like
me used to demand."
The
Comics Reporter
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BOW-WOW
BUGS A BUG is a JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD Premiere Selection
BOW-WOW BUGS A BUG received the FIRST PLACE GOLD MEDAL in THE ORIGINAL ART; the Society of Illustrator's 2007 children's book competition
Visit the official BOW-WOW website: bow-wowbooks.com
for loads more info and fun!