When Your House is Burning Down, You Should Brush Your Teeth by Matthew Inman


When Your House is Burning Down, You Should Brush Your Teeth
Title : When Your House is Burning Down, You Should Brush Your Teeth
Author :
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ISBN : -
Language : English
Format Type : ebook
Number of Pages : 30
Publication : First published January 8, 2013
Awards : Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Best Short Story (2014)

Today, January 8th 2013, marks the 20th anniversary of my house burning down, so I decided to write a comic about it. It was a terrible thing and I've found the best way to deal with terrible things is to tell funny stories about them later.

My dad still had a copy of the front page of our local newspaper, and I've scanned it and pasted it below for anyone who is curious. Also, the newspaper is dated January 9th but the house actually burned down on the 8th (they went to print a day later), and even though the paper states that my sister called the police it was actually my mom.

A lot of people are asking: my mom made it out okay, and she ended up rebuilding her teddy bear business over the next few years.

When Your House is Burning Down, You Should Brush Your Teeth Reviews

  • Tariq Alferis

    .Actually this is just pointless..

  • Wirotomo Nofamilyname

    #81 in 2015.

    Komik yang aneh tapi menyenangkan untuk dibaca. Untuk memperingati 20 tahun peristiwa terbakarnya rumah orang tua sang komikus saat ia masih kecil, ia membuat komik ini.

    Tentu saja, sesuai style komik-komik sebelumnya, dia menceritakan dengan berlebihan dan hilarious hahaha.
    Dia menceritakan 1 dari 17 kucingnya yang agak "terbelakang" tapi dialah satu2nya yang selamat saat mereka pindah rumah (ke rumah yang terbakar tersebut), dia menceritakan fantasinya yang berlebihan, dia menceritakan tentang kejadian kebakarannya yang tak masuk akal (terutama saat dia malah menyikat gigi terlebih dahulu dan bukannya menyelamatkan diri saat kebakaran.
    Semua dengan gayanya yang santai tapi terkadang bisa menyentuh.

    Saya suka komik ini. Bintang 5 deh.
    Eh iya, komik ini menjadi nominasi Eisner Awards untuk kategori "Best Short Story" di tahun 2014.

    Gituuu....

  • Nickie

    You should NOT brush your teeth when you house is on fire.
    You should also NOT have 17 cats living in your home.
    You should NOT move 17 cats 1,300 miles to your new home.

    As a person with a sadly familiar tale (about the childhood fire, NOT the cats), Please please please test your smoke detectors and keep them in working order. They make kitchen ones that are "less sensitive" and less prone to going off when the oven burns something. All houses should have working smoke detectors. Especially ones where the primary heat source is a fireplace.

  • Susan

    Sad and funny and touching at the same time.