Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed?

(Top Shelf, 2005)
™ and © 2005 LIz Prince

Will You Still Love Me if I Wet the Bed? is a collection of hit-and-run autobiographical vignettes about Liz and her boyfriend Kevin. It’s intimate, which is why it's sometimes cute and sometimes gross, but always immediate to the reader. It’s about two people very much in love and making small events into big joys. And it’s pretty darn funny. It’s also hard to recommend a better title for the Guy Who Wants His Girlfriend to Read Comics.
Prince’s material evokes comparisons to Jeffrey Rowland’s “Overcompensating” in its staging and delivery of jokes, and James Kochalka’s comics in its actual analysis of the minutiae of life as a creative soul. Art-wise, it’s all “no-looking-back” thumbnails printed the guidelines still intact (heck, most of the guidelines ARE the figures in their entirety), but it serves the format of the book. These aren’t plotted, potted and pruned moments depicted here… they’re wildflowers plucked by someone skipping by.

Will You Still Love Me if I Wet the Bed? is good medicine.

— Brendan McGinley

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#1

September, 2005
Cover Price: $7.00
2 copies available from $4.75

Liz Prince, Jeffrey Brown