Goofy, silent one-page gags crammed with little frames showing Mr. O, a rounddoodle of a man, desperately trying to get across that darn chasm, and somehow never quite making it over to the other side. Will keep you in stitches for pages. More of Trondheim's genius at work!
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By Diane
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Used this as a philosophy stimulus with my Year 5 class and it was brilliant! Thanks Mr O your omazing!
By A Customer
Format:Hardcover
This is truly a great gift! It is incredibly funny -although rather dark- as Mr O never quite makes it over the gap and therefore dies some terrible deaths. But he won't stop trying, and has far more lives than a cat! The simplicity of the drawings is amazing is- a few lines can say so much!
Very enjoyable!
Very enjoyable!
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4.6 out of 5 stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful!
6 Aug 2005
By photographer/author mom
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Format:Hardcover
Image: A 6-year-old boy sitting crosslegged on the floor and a 40+ man leaning against a wall of comic books in NYC's Forbidden Planet store each reading Mister O. Both (unbeknownst to each other) following each panel of every page and literally laughing out loud...
P.S. I bought the book. Many congratulations to this brilliant author for managing to portray the complexities of life in such an accessible way!
P.S. I bought the book. Many congratulations to this brilliant author for managing to portray the complexities of life in such an accessible way!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Minimalist Genius!
2 April 2005
By D. Cates
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Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
There are few comics as minimalist as Mister O, and few that will make you laugh as hard. The premise is utterly minor: a little round fellow reaches a chasm; he wants to cross it; he fails. Trondheim puts this tragic little script through dozens of variations, mostly depending on the means that Mister O tries to use to cross the chasm. The book is wordless, and its drawing style is so spare that it's almost "pure icon" -- the very foundation of cartooning. Mister O's failures are so frequently hilarious that Trondheim give you new respect for the power of comics to tell a story. I can't think of a humor collection I would recommend more highly.
4.0 out of 5 stars
So mean. And so painfully funny at the very end.
18 July 2011
By Robert P. Beveridge
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Format:Hardcover
Lewis Trondheim, <strong>Mister O</strong> (Nantier Beall Minoustchine, 2004)
Meet Mister O. He's a circle, with arms, legs, and a very expressive face, especially given how minimal it is. And in these thirty-two strips, he faces a challenge: he needs to get across a gap. It's the same setup in each strip, and it usually leads to the same punchline (he does, rarely, make it to the other side before something awful happens to him), and I know I have recently castigated another graphic novel for that, but here it works. I have no idea why this is. But I laughed out loud (guiltily) at this more than I have at any other book I've read recently. The repetition does great once in a while, and by the thirtieth or so strip, you'll wonder if the final one is going to offer any resolution to this painful drama. I'm not going to spoil the answer to that for you, but I will tell you this: the final panel of the entire book is absolutely, positively worth the entire price of admission on its own. *** ½
Meet Mister O. He's a circle, with arms, legs, and a very expressive face, especially given how minimal it is. And in these thirty-two strips, he faces a challenge: he needs to get across a gap. It's the same setup in each strip, and it usually leads to the same punchline (he does, rarely, make it to the other side before something awful happens to him), and I know I have recently castigated another graphic novel for that, but here it works. I have no idea why this is. But I laughed out loud (guiltily) at this more than I have at any other book I've read recently. The repetition does great once in a while, and by the thirtieth or so strip, you'll wonder if the final one is going to offer any resolution to this painful drama. I'm not going to spoil the answer to that for you, but I will tell you this: the final panel of the entire book is absolutely, positively worth the entire price of admission on its own. *** ½
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