One Big Happy: Should I Spit on Him?!

Ruthie, the precocious little girl, is one of the funniest cartoon characters to be created in some time. Between her massacring of the English, commanding attitude and hysterics, you will laugh every time you read a strip with her in it. The other characters, her parents, her older brother Joe and her grandparents are also well drawn and funny. Rose, the grandmother, is particularly snide and funny. One Big Happy is the best new cartoon since Bloom County & Calvin & Hobbes debuted in the 80's.

Rick Detorie is surely the best artist working in the medium of daily comic strip. No one gets better facial expressions. And generally no one writes a funnier situation. With the very sad departure of both Charles Schulz and his strip "Peanuts," my vote for the replacement is -- obviously "One Big Happy." As an avid collector of cartoons, I rank this strip one of my favorites of all time.

I read this book to my son every night before he goes to bed. It never fails to make us laugh. Ruthie is hysterical and I think Rick Detorie is the most underrated cartoonist. Buy this book. You'll love it.

I LOVED this book! Rick Detorie is definitely my favorite author. The illustrations are great, I was reading on the train ride home and I could not help but laugh out loud at times, people must have thought I was a nut! But the book is great to read, Ruthie & Joe are too cute as well as James!

If you like the newspaper comic strip "One Big Happy", you'll love this book! The strip center's around Ruthie (seen on the cover yelling the title), her family, and her grandparents who live next door. Rick has managed to capture the innocence of youth with Ruthie. A great addition to any comic strip book collection!