Synopses & Reviews
Somewhere between here and anywhere, in a trailer park called "The People's Court," lives a bespectacled, floppy footed girl named Agnes. Her age falls exactly between the wide-eyed times when fairy tales are embraced as truth and the darker, later years when cynicism starts to take its toll. The other players in this small sideshow are Granma, a hardworking, underpaid Golden Ager who worries that she may be a little too old for the challenge of raising a granddaughter, and Trout, Agnes's best friend. Trout was named after one of her father's biggest passions and, according to her, she was only three numbers from being christened Powerball. Trout tries to temper Agnes's stigmatism of hope with her own doctrine of realism. Together they weather the major tribulations that only childhood can make so monumental. Trout aspires to pilot a soft-serve ice cream machine so all the kids will laugh and yell "Hey, Ice Cream Lady!" Agnes merely wants to be crowned lord queen of the unknown universe. They will probablyend up on different bowling leagues.
Synopsis
The strip Agnes delves into the life of a girl yearning to stand out and be noticed, and holds a mirror up to what this often means in today's society. Agnes draws readers into a nontraditional (though quite common) family of grandparent and grandchild. Agnes is a young girl in a state of delicious angst, a child of meager means trying to define her place in the world. This books shares a funny, poignant glimpse at the life of a young girl who dreams of a world much bigger than her own. In this first Agnes collection, I'm Far Too Young to Look This Hot we get a full dose of the 10-year-old with big feet, black hair and the ability to find a laugh in this often harsh reality.