X-Treme Parenting: A Baby Blues Treasury

Parenting: The New Extreme Sport

For almost two decades, millions of fans have enjoyed Baby Blues, the critically acclaimed comic by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott that chronicles the lives of Daryl and Wanda MacPherson as they try to keep up with kids Zoe, Hammie, and baby Wren—and keep their sanity! Because let's face it, parenting in today's hectic world can really seem like one extreme sport. Forget snowboarding, forget bungee jumping—parenting is the sport of choice for the truly tough, and the MacPhersons are some serious contenders! X-Treme Parenting (Andrews McMeel Publishing, $16.99), the seventh Baby Blues treasury, captures this spirit of adventure and is sure to delight parents everywhere who will undoubtedly recognize more than a little of their own lives in the exploits of these hard-core athletes!

• Voted Best Comic Strip of the Year by the National Cartoonists Society
• Appears in more than 1,100 newspapers and 20 periodicals

About Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott

Rick Kirkman of Phoenix, AZ, and Jerry Scott of San Luis Obispo, CA, launched Baby Blues in 1990 and have spent the years since getting the strip "just right." Jerry also writes the award-winning comic strip Zits and has received a Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year by the National Cartoonist Society.

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Contact: Kathy Hilliard, (800) 851-8923, ext. 6741, khilliard@amuniversal.com

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X-Treme Parenting: A Baby Blues Treasury

By: Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott
ISBN-10: 978-0-7407-7097-5
Format: Paperback: 10 7/8 x 8 1/2, 240 pages
Price: $16.99 ($18.99 Canada)