BB3X

By Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott

BB3X is a special Baby Blues treasury that celebrates three decades of one of the most heartwarming, funny, and true-to-life depictions of raising children ever seen in the funny pages. In addition to a year's worth of Baby Blues comics, this special collection sheds light on the unique collaborative process of Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott, whose cartooning magic has helped transform some of the most stressful moments in life into some of the most hilarious. The book includes a forward from Rick, a reflection by Jerry, and a special "scrapbook" section of archival photographs, memorabilia, and illustrations from the duo's three decades of Baby Blues collaboration.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Oct 27, 2020
• ISBN: 9781524866884

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Other Baby Blues® Books from Andrews McMeel Publishing

Guess Who Didn’t Take a Nap?

I Thought Labor Ended When the Baby Was Born

We Are Experiencing Parental Difficulties . . . Please Stand By

Night of the Living Dad

I Saw Elvis in My Ultrasound

One More and We’re Outnumbered!

Check, Please . . .

Threats, Bribes & Videotape

If I’m a Stay-at-Home Mom, Why Am I Always in the Car?

Lift and Separate

I Shouldn’t Have to Scream More Than Once!

Motherhood Is Not for Wimps

Baby Blues®: Unplugged

Dad to the Bone

Never a Dry Moment

Two Plus One Is Enough

Playdate: Category 5

Our Server Is Down

Something Chocolate This Way Comes

Briefcase Full of Baby Blues®

Night Shift

The Day Phonics Kicked In

My Space

The Natural Disorder of Things

We Were Here First

Ambushed! In the Family Room

Cut!

Eat, Cry, Poop

Scribbles at an Exhibition

Bedlam

Wetter, Louder, Stickier

No Yelling!

Gross!

Binge Parenting

Adult Time

Surviving the Great Indoors

Treasuries

The Super-Absorbent, Biodegradable, Family-Size Baby Blues®

Baby Blues®: Ten Years and Still in Diapers

Butt-Naked Baby Blues®

Wall-to-Wall Baby Blues®

Driving Under the Influence of Children

Framed!

X-Treme Parenting

BBXX: Baby Blues: Decades 1 & 2

Gift Books

It’s a Boy

It’s a Girl

For C, from Dad

—J.S.

For Mom and Dad

—R.K.

Time in the Time of a Pandemic

A quick detour into The Twilight Zone. . . . I remember Rod Serling’s words to that effect on TV when I was a kid. And it feels like that today.

We began work on this book at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. At the time of this writing, we are a good eight weeks into staying at home.

We’re reminded how time is so fluid, so relative. Being at home for this amount of time, to some people, feels like half a lifetime.

We cartoonists tend to be a self-isolating bunch anyway, so it’s not a heckuva lot different to us. The vast majority of us work from home already. It’s mostly what we call life—minus the trips to the grocery store, restaurants, and a few hobbies and pastimes that involve being close to people.

But in this pandemic, we’ve learned how relative time is. While some count the minutes and seconds at home, staying in to help stop the spread so health care professionals can get a handle on COVID-19, the world is transforming at the speed of Usain Bolt. Lives and jobs lost, businesses and schools closing, financial markets crashing and rising and falling, and . . .

Fast enough to make your head spin, like a scene in a movie where the character is in real time while everything else around passes at lightning speed.

Then, there’s the world of Baby Blues and the MacPherson family. Any parent can tell you about the fluidity of time. In the infant stage, babies seem to morph daily, rapidly hitting milestone after milestone. To capture that, we had to slow time way down. So, in the beginning, time passed and they aged at