Category: | Book |
By (author): | Ukazu, Ngozi |
Series: | Check, Please! |
Subject: | YOUNG ADULT FICTION / General |
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / LGBT | |
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Sports & Recreation / Hockey | |
Audience: | young adult |
Publisher: | First Second |
Published: | September 2018 |
Format: | Book-paperback |
Pages: | 288 |
Size: | 8.50in x 6.00in |
From The Publisher* | Eric Bittle may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It is nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia! First of all? There's checking. And then, there is Jack-his very attractive but moody captain. A collection of the first half of the megapopular webcomic series of the same name, Check, Please!: #Hockey is the first book of a hilarious and stirring two-volume coming-of-age story about hockey, bros, and trying to find yourself during the best four years of your life. |
Review Quote* | "Ukazu, who began Bitty's story as an uberpopular webcomic, folds in plenty of hockey terms and highlights team camaraderie while skillfully dismantling themes of toxic masculinity…A slow-burn same-sex romance is just the icing on the cake (sorry-pie) in this irresistibly fun and utterly charming sports story. Volume two can't come fast enough" - Booklist, starred review |
Biographical Note | Ngozi Ukazu is the creator of Check, Please!, a massively popular online graphic novel. She graduated from Yale University in 2013 and received a master's in sequential art in 2015 from the Savannah College of Art and Design. While she used her intensive knowledge of ice hockey to launch Check, Please! in 2013, Ngozi has a deep interest in sports that ranges from half-marathon training to basketball documentaries. Ngozi also cites '90s sitcoms as a major influence in the quirky, found-family feel of Check, Please! |