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Comics & Graphic Novels Literary

The Owner's Manual to Terrible Parenting

by (author) Guy Delisle

translated by Helge Dascher

Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Initial publish date
Oct 2015
Category
Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781770462144
    Publish Date
    Oct 2015
    List Price
    $15.95

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Description

Guy Delisle knows all the worst parenting techniques
Guy Delisle, the author of Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City and A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting, shares hilarious new comic strips that pay tribute to all the ways parents can drive their kids crazy, and vice versa, in The Owner's Manual to Terrible Parenting.
Slipping grammar lessons into bedtime stories, being challenged by difficult toys, and pretending to forget you even have a son: it's all in a day's work for Delisle. In The Owner's Manual, Delisle doesn't hesitate to make a slightly bumbling, fictionalized version of himself the butt of the joke, though his children often contribute zingy repartee and laugh-out-loud insight in the stories on display here.
The Owner's Manual is the perfect antidote to frustrating car rides filled with "Are we there yet?" and epic battles over homework. Delisle's effortless pacing and witty punch lines reign supreme here, making each vignette zip along to its conclusion.

About the authors

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Helge Dascher has for 25 years translated texts with a dynamic relationship to images. A background in art history and literature has grounded her translation of over sixty graphic novels, many by artists who have broadened the medium's storytelling range. Her translations included acclaimed titles such as Julie Delporte's This Woman's Work (co-translated with Aleshia Jensen, Drawn and Quarterly, 2019), Sophie Bédard's Lonely Boys (co-translated with Robin Lang, Pow Pow Press, 2020) and Michel Rabagliati's "Paul" books (Drawn and Quarterly, Conundrum). She also translates exhibitions, digital stories, and films, most recently Theodor Ushev's The Physics of Sorrow (with Karen Houle, NFB, 2019). A Montrealer, she works from French and German to English.

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Editorial Reviews

A funny and truthful book about being a parent." - Boing Boing on A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting

"Guy Delisle is the real thing: a skilled and wryly funny Quebecois cartoonist . . . The brevity of each vignette [in A User's Guide ] highlights Delisle's acute sense of timing." - NPR on A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting
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