The Comic Strip Club (Tue 5/7/2019)

Zits Pop Quiz

From Wiki

Zits is a comic strip written by cartoonist Jerry Scott and illustrated by Jim Borgman about the life of Jeremy Duncan, a 16-year-old high school sophomore (previously a 15-year-old for the life of the comic). The comic debuted in July 1997 in over 200 newspapers and has since become popular worldwide and received multiple awards

Lets meet the cast

Jeremy Duncan is an intelligent, 16-year-old high school sophomore (earlier a 15-year old freshman) who aspires to be a rock musician.  Jeremy spends much of his time with his friends and trying to impress love interest and part-time girlfriend, Sara Toomey. Jeremy was once told by his mother he was conceived to the song “Stairway to Heaven”.

 

Connie Duncan is Jeremy’s mother. She is a child psychologist, but works only part-time after Jeremy’s birth, and her profession is rarely mentioned except in early strips.  She is also an aspiring writer, having begun work on a book titled: Coping Effectively with your Teen.

 

Walt Duncan is Jeremy’s father, an orthodontist who, like Connie, finds it almost impossible to hold a conversation with his son. Walt is portrayed as clueless and old-fashioned about technology, especially computers and video players.  He has been shown to think that a fan belt is part of a search engine and that “Googling” somebody means having sexual intercourse with them.

Hector Garcia is Jeremy’s best friend and is a guitarist/vocalist in Jeremy’s band. The two spend a lot of their time hanging out, much of it trying to restore the VW van and dreaming about where their future road trip will take them. In practice, the two have not gotten far toward restoring the van past making it run, as the boys usually end up lying on the roof of the van, talking.

Sara Toomey is Jeremy’s on-again/off-again girlfriend. Although Jeremy thinks the world of her, she apparently likes Jeremy a lot, but has thought of him as a “salvageable male”.[31] Her parents are divorced and her behavior wavers between kindness and aggravation.[32] She and Jeremy have broken up many times, but they always seem to make up sooner or later

Pierce is another of Jeremy’s close friends, and the drummer of Jeremy’s band (after the old drummer, Y.A., quit the band) who, as his name aptly implies, has much of his body pierced; in a 2008 story line, Jeremy learned that when not in the presence of his friends, Pierce finds himself compelled to remove his piercings and dress like a preppy.