Five Pounds & Screaming

by Shawn Williams, Shawn Williams (Illustrator)

Overview

Five Pounds and Screaming follows a young couple and their struggles with smalltown living, their urge to have children — and with each other. This 142 page sequential art tale documents the everyday (but also magical) time between after the honeymoon and into the delivery room. A love story for those who have children, or are about to!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014799515
Publisher:	Handstand Press
Publication date:	06/11/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	142
File size:	20 MB
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About the Author

Shawn Brook Williams was born thirty miles to the east of his home in central Wisconsin and studied graphic design at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, thirty miles to the west. His daughter just celebrated her seventh birthday. Shawn is a graphic designer for Comics Buyer’s Guide magazine and other periodicals, books, and electronic media for F+W Media. He is also the illustrator and co-creator of the comic strips Simple Pleasures and Supe & Indy. This is his first graphic novel.

Editorial Reviews

Five Pounds and Screaming follows characters Ben and Eliza as they adjust to lives as expecting parents. Throughout the book we view the young couple as they live day to day. We witness Ben and Eliza worry over living situations and we see them simply lounging around the house drawing and singing. With every minuscule detail that Williams presents us we are reminded again and again that this book is a labor of love, each page and panel is filled with the pure love...
-Panelbound

Matthew Manarino

The book doesn’t cover being a dad in the cliche ways that Eighties sitcoms typically did. His approach is fresh, original, charming, and warmly familiar.
One of the most memorable scenes in the book, for me, is when the protagonist brags to a supermarket cashier, “I’m a dad!” This stood out to me because I remember doing the same thing the first couple of weeks after Jack was born.
- Parents Magazine

Nick Shell

found myself nodding, "uh-huh"-ing and giggling all the way through as I recalled our own experiences when my husband and I were expecting our LO. It was also nice to find out that there are other people out there who have gone through some of the same things we did.
-Macaroni Kid

Laura Miller