Save Yourself, Mammal!: A Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Collection

by Zach Weinersmith

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (SMBC) is at heart a geek comic, but it nevertheless addresses a broad range of topics, such as love, relationships, economics, politics, religion, science, and philosophy. It is one of the fastest growing comics online, having sextupled in readership since 2008.SMBC appeals to many different groups, as evidenced by the fact it has been featured on a variety of important websites and blogs, includingThe Economist, Glamour, BoingBoing, Bad Astronomy, Blastr, show more Blues News, Joystiq, The Washington Post, Freakonomics, and more.SMBC has never released a book, which is almost unheard of for a comic with such an extensive archive, making this first-ever collection highly anticipated. BreadPig donates its profits to DonorsChoose.org, a not-for-profit organization that aims to improve public education by empowering every teacher to be a change-maker and enabling any citizen to be a philanthropist. show less

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Weiner is the future. These are very much comics for the college grad, touching on subjects ranging from existential philosophy to economics, many of these jokes will go over your head if you haven't been exposed to some introductory material. There are of course plenty of just silly strips and their is a pretty heavy reliance on relationship humor as well. There wasn't one page of this collection where I didn't legitimately LOL.
I quite like SMBC - but this was a bit of an overload, for me. I prefer going to the site occasionally. While (nearly) each of these was individually funny, by the time I finished the book none of them amused me. Not bad, but not something I expect to go back to much. Now passing it on to someone else...that I might do (and yes, I have the ebook - if I pass it on, I'll delete it from my files).
I've read a lot of different webcomics but had never heard of this one. I only picked this up because it was part of the Humble Bundle ebook collection and I am so glad I did. This comic is hilarious and made me laugh out loud the most in a long time. Read the book or read it online, just read it.
A good collection, but lacking in exclusive new content.
A collection of some of the best SMBC comics. Why pay for a book comics free on the internet? Curation. This sifts the best of the best. It's also filled with amusing side jokes and ways to explore.
Another collection of webcomics from the Humble Bundle, I wasn't really familiar with this one beforehand, though, upon reading it, I did remember seeing some comics around teh internetz.

Some are indeed quite funny, but there are also many with kind of obvious punchlines. Three stars.
An excellent selection of some of the funniest SMBC comics!

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Zach Weinersmith is the cartoonist behind the popular geek webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. His work has been featured in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Forbes, Science Friday, Boingboing, the Freakonomics Blog, the RadioLab blog, Entertainment Weekly, Mother Jones, CNN, Discovery Magazine, and more.

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Canonical title*
Save Yourself, Mammal!
Original publication date
2011
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Graphic Novels & Comics
DDC/MDS
741Arts & recreationDrawing & decorative artsDrawing and drawings
LCC
PN6728 .S28 .W45Language and LiteratureLiterature (General)Literature (General)Collections of general literatureComic books, strips, etc.
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Reviews
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Languages
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