Bücher von Brad Yung

When the emperor wore plaid and people still hung phones on walls, Brad Yung's weekly comic strip Stay as you are. was a beacon to the slacker generation that bathed in irony and rejected everything else.A true underground underdog, the strip appeared in photocopied zines, alternative weeklies, small-town newspapers, and a few national magazines. Too savage, too biting, its targets too spread out and numerous to mention, the strip knew it was never going to achieve mainstream success and didn't care.The Complete Stay as you are. honours these remnants of a simpler, yet more complicated time. A review once called Yung the world's first meta-ironist - if that's true, he should probably apologize. But he won't.

What if you could live your life over, making all the right decisionsand avoiding all the mistakes? You can, vicariously through yourchildren, but is that a good idea?101 standalone stories about parenting or being parented - frombullying to discipline, grandmothers to ice cream, old friends to firstlove - each culminate in a lesson that messed the author up, so he'snot going to teach them to his kids until it's too late.Brad Yung mines his past and speculates on his children's futures,alternately reaching out and lashing out. Added all together, severalstorylines emerge: an embattled mother-son relationship, the earlydeath of his father, a crumbling marriage, a fractured take on hisChinese heritage, and his love for his kids.Understatedly funny, wistfully longing while steeped in regret,poignant if tragic, yet ultimately hopeful, uplifting, and insightful,Lessons I'm Going To Teach My Kids Too Late almost succeeds in notbeing a self-help parenting book, but not for lack of trying.