February 19, 2004

The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby: The First Graphic Novel

Super Diaper Baby is a spin-off of the enormously popular Captain Underpants kids' book series. While the Captain Underpants books are heavily illustrated chapter books, Super Diaper Baby is a comic book disguised as a paperback. The art is appealingly crude, and reminds me of the comics I drew in school. In fact, the premise is that The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby was written and drawn by the two kids who star in the Captain Underpants books.

Weirdly enough, The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby stars a giant piece of human excrement as the villain. In the 1960s, headshop owners were getting busted for selling underground comic books, because they had sex, violence, drugs, and scatology in them. Now, kids books (published by Scholastic, no less) have turd drawings in them and the books are sold in regular bookstores without any parental warning on them.

My six year-old-daughter enjoyed this book as much as I did.

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