Friends With Boys

I'm trying to read more comics, graphic novels and basically anything with pictures in it. Sometimes it's kinda overwhelming for me to see a lot of pictures in just one page, but definitely I loved this book so much that I read it twice in the same day.

This book deals with some real sad situations but it is treated with humor. I found myself laughing out loud because it was really really sweet and funny. The characters were well developed and I couldn't resist but loving each one of them. Also, I loved the ghost. She was really nice and quirky until the end -which I liked a lot.

The art was incredible! I wish I could do some fan art for this book but I'm afraid my drawing is terrible... Anyway, I recommend this book to anyone who wants to read a good story with beautiful illustrations. Please, READ IT!

I'm glad this author has more books and I'm definitely checking them out! I have the feeling that I have a new favorite author! :)

I won this book through GoodReads and I thank to the publisher for providing me this copy but this fact didn't influence the review.

I love Faith Erin Hicks so much. Her art is amazing and her stories are always full of such heart. I related to this lead so much, being that I was also a homeschooled girl with three older brothers, and the story had me right away. My only complaint? I really wanted more out of the ending. SO MUCH MORE. Sequel? Please?

I discovered Friends With Boys online one day, shortly after Faith Erin Hicks started posting the pages to her website in webcomic form as a promotion for the upcoming print release. It quickly became one of my favourite comics, and I made sure to pre-order the print copy, knowing I wanted to have it in my personal library (particularly since after the end of February 2012 only the first sixteen pages of the book will be available for viewing online).

The print version is lovely. It is more or less trade paper size, so it sits very nicely in hand, and I love the cover flap detailing that creates the sense of it having a dust jacket. My only real complaint is a minor one: as with many, many other graphic novels, Friends With Boys has a few points where the edges of some of the panels get a bit lost in the spine of the book. It comes with the nature of the print medium, and there really is not any way to “fix” it and maintain the integrity of the art.

Bottom line: If you enjoy fun characters and slice-of-life type stories (with or without supernatural twists) definitely check this comic out.