I Don’t Love You!: The Best of Migraine Boy

    (Slave Labor, 2004)
™ and © 2004 Greg Fiering

If you walked around every day with a splitting migraine headache, you’d probably have a pretty short temper. That’s the case with the young lad known as Migraine Boy, and this collection shows him losing it on a daily basis. Strips offer the added bonus of featuring subtle nods to classic comics like Peanuts, literature like Tom Sawyer, and other pop culture staples. There are also shades of cartoonist Charles Addams here, as plenty of the humor involves morbidity and death. One friend encourages Migraine Boy to run up and kick the football he’s holding; Migraine Boy runs up and kicks off his head. Other strips are similarly dark.

Each strip features the same five-panel layout and the same bitterly angry little boy interacting with friends and neighbors. The collection is by Greg Fiering.

— Andy Richardson
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