Reviews & Quotes

FROM THE FOREWORD TO BEG THE QUESTION:
"Bob can write. His ear for dialogue is perfect. In just one panel of dialogue you hear another thousand conversations that these characters had or will have and a gachillion things you said, had said to you, thought, had thought about you, should have said, or should have had said to you. Bob can draw. The pictures are beautiful. They tell the whole story without being redundant to the words. It’s art, dude, it really is."

Penn Jillette
Showtime's Penn & Teller: Bullshit!

"Intensely funny and addictive, Fingerman captures true love and Brooklyn with incredible honesty and tenderness. I always scream with joy when I see the new Minimum Wage at the bookstore, and now here's the collected edition that we can all scream for."

Margaret Cho

"A sprawling, sexy, smart, nerve-wracking, almost minute-by-minute look at the friendships, love life and career of a young cartoonist trying to make it any way he can in a city that couldn't care less. But I cared and so will you. Bob Fingerman writes and draws on the dismal sub-culture of comics-limbo with the eye of an anthropologist and the gifts of a born storyteller."

Jules Feiffer

"Beg the Question does for relationships what Maus did for the Holocaust. Wait a second; that probably doesn't sound right. What I'm trying to say is that through this medium of cartoons, Bob Fingerman has gloriously and hilariously captured the comedy and the tragedy, the agony and the ecstasy, the yin and the yang, the missionary and the doggy-style, of a young man and woman's love for each other."

Jonathan Ames
author of
My Less Than Secret Life

"It doesn't seem fair that Bob Fingerman gets to be such a funny, savvy, cool and smart writer who can also draw. It gives him an advantage and I may need to have him assassinated."

Augusten Burroughs
author of
Running With Scissors

"Finally, a graphic novel unafraid to face the important issues: sex, death, marriage, abortion, religion, and the name of Simon Barsinister's henchman on Underdog. Bob Fingerman's Beg the Question is a masterful work, unflinching, ugly, potent, and massively entertaining along the way."

James Gunn
author of
The Toy Collector

"Fingerman's comics are all about the sloppiness and failure and noise and triumphs and quiet and joy and sadness that arrive completely off-schedule in a day, or in a life. Plus, he draws cute chicks."

Patton Oswalt

"... This graphic novel captures the joys, delights, highs and lows of life in your 20s and 30s better than just about anything I've read. ... Beg the Question challenges the art form but not the reader, by setting the bar high for autobiographical comics while presenting a compelling, hilarious look at the life of two very likable characters and their friends and family. Once you start reading, I doubt you'll be able to stop until you've read the entire thing. That's what happened to me."

Alan David Doane
ComicBookGalaxy.com
Full Review

"Beg the Question is one of those hellishly-hard-to-describe-but-that's-good kind of novels. It's about a very erotic romance, and it's about grown-up friendships; it's about first jobs (or, rather, about trying to get a career going, no easy thing), and it's about being young in New York City (which you'll recognize as dead-on accurate if you were lucky/crazy enough to have experienced it yourself). And it's about...well, it's just about the most fun I've had reading anything in a long, long time. The characters are so real and so well drawn (pun intended) you'll wish you had their phone numbers because you'd love to stay in touch. Nice work, Fingerman."

Tom De Haven
author of
Dugan Under Ground

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