Edge City; A Comic Strip Collection

Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, 2007. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. Very good. Terry LaBan and Patty LaBan. 128 pages. Color illustrations. Inscription on title page signed by both authors. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Publisher's ephemera card (approximately 4.5 inches by 6 inches, in color, printed on both sides) related to this book is laid in. Edge City is an American syndicated comic strip created by the husband and wife team of Terry and Patty LaBan. The couple teams to write the strips with Terry handling the art. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, the strip debuted in 2000 and ended on January 2, 2016. The main characters in Edge City are the members of the Ardin family. Len Ardin is the co-owner of a courier service, and Abby is a therapist. Their children, Colin and Carly, are both elementary school students. . Dwelling in the far reaches of suburbia, Len and Abby lead a life very different from the one they lived growing up. Terry LaBan offered this description of the strip: Edge City is a daily comic strip internationally syndicated by King Features, that satirizes modern family life through the eyes of a post-Baby Boomer, Jewish-American family. It concentrates on the relationship between Abby, a therapist in private practice, and Len, an aging urban hipster who co-owns a delivery service and plays in a weekend rock band, as they juggle the pressures of running their careers and dealing with their two kids, Colin, ten, and Carly, eight. There are also a number of peripheral characters, like Rajiv, Len's Indian-American partner, and Abby's parents. The strip generally takes the form of simple stories that last about two weeks and explore some kind of issue or incident, like Abby having insomnia or Len joining a Led Zeppelin cover band.