Cute Girl Network - Softcover

Reed, Mk

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596437510 ISBN 13: 9781596437517

Publisher: First Second GN, 2013

Synopsis

Jane's new in town. When she wipes out on her skateboard right in front of Jack's food cart, she finds herself agreeing to go on a date with him. Jane's psyched that her love life is taking a turn for the friskier, but it turns out that Jack has a spotty romantic history, to put it mildly. Cue the Cute Girl Network ― a phone tree information-pooling group of local single women. Poor Jane is about to learn every detail of Jack's past misadventures… whether she wants to or not. Will love prevail?

In this graphic novel from Greg Means, Americus author MK Reed, and Joe Flood, the illustrator of Orcs, comes a fast, witty, and sweet romantic comedy that is actually funny, and actually romantic.

About this title

About the Authors

MK Reed is the writer of Americus, The Cute Girl Network, Palefire, and the Eisner-nominated Science Comics: Dinosaurs. She writes and draws About a Bull, a web-comic adaptation of Irish mythology. MK lives in Portland, Oregon, with her very tall husband.

Greg Means is a writer, editor and librarian living in Portland, Oregon. He runs the micro-publishing company Tugboat Press and edits the award winning comic book anthology Papercutter. The Cute Girl Network is his first novel.

Joe Flood is a comic book author and illustrator whose work includes Cellies, Pirates of the Caribbean and Orcs: Forged for War. For the Science Comics series, he collaborated on Dinosaurs: Fossils and Feathers with MK Reed and wrote and illustrated Sharks: Nature’s Perfect Hunter. He lives with his wife and daughter in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Reviews

In an offbeat meet-cute for the ages, independent, strong-willed Jane is skateboarding on her way to work when she falls on her coccyx in front of dopey soup-seller Jack. Are they a match made in slacker heaven? Not if the cute-girl network has anything to say about it. The network, a coalition of twentysomething women in Jane’s new city, have taken it upon themselves to protect unsuspecting cute girls from falling victim to dating disasters. And unfortunately for Jack, he has quite a record: abandoning a date after being sent on an errand, falling through a glass table, and many other ineptitudes. But Jane is no stranger to mistakes herself, and she’s confident in her ability to make her own choices. And besides that, there’s something about this lovable loser that she can’t quite get over. Flood breathes life into each snarky, well-rounded character in black-and-white illustrations that perfectly capture the particular sauntering, gadabout quality of early adulthood. This refreshing look at modern dating manages to be romantic without a shred of sentimentality. --Sarah Hunter

Edition details

• Publisher: First Second GN
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1596437510
• ISBN 13: 9781596437517
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192