Jeremy and Dad

A Zits Tribute-ish to Fathers and Sons

The perfect Father’s Day gift. This hilarious collection of Zits comic strips chronicles the perplexing, infuriating, and loving relationship between teenager and father, serving as an entertaining guide to the peculiar art of parenting a teenager. Appearing in more than 1,600 newspapers worldwide in 43 countries and 15 languages, Zits is an enormously popular comic strip. It is consistently rated in the top 5 favorites of readers all over the world.

What’s harder: being a teenager or being the father of a teenager? The answer, of course, depends on whom you ask.

This hilarious collection of Zits comic strips chronicles the perplexing, infuriating, and loving relationship between teenager and father, serving as an entertaining guide to the peculiar art of parenting a teenager. In Jeremy and Dad, angst-filled 16-year-old Jeremy Duncan bursts with the questions, concerns, hormones, and insecurities every teenager has, while Walt, Jeremy’s well-meaning father, struggles to pry words–not full sentences, just words–from his son.

Zits has twice been honored with the award for Best Newspaper Comic Strip by the National Cartoonists Society and received the "Max and Moritz" award for Best International Comic Strip in 2000. 

About the Author

Co-creator Jim Borgman and his wife are the proud parents of five children. He has also won a Reuben Award and a Pulitzer Prize. Both he and Jerry have LOTS of experience with teenagers.

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