Abby and Norma Books

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Abby and Norma Books

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Cover of the book EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON BUT NOTHING HAPPENS FOR A GOOD REASON. Simple, stylized art of the characters Abby and Norma from the webcomic is shown on a screen, with more realistic versions drawn in colored pencil in the foreground, holding video game controllers as if playing their comic selves.

Everything Happens for a Reason

(But Nothing Happens for a Good Reason)

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Welcome to the world of Abby and Norma, a bizarre and irreverent collage of insights about language, science, religion, politics, food, friendship, love, sex, social skills, the autism spectrum, and that weirdest mental condition of them all: the human condition.

A self-published collection of strips of my comic Abby and Norma. Abby is a college student on the autism spectrum, but the comic rarely focuses on autism. Characters include a good friend, a snobby cheerleader, a nagging mother, an uber-geek whose insane parents conceived him in the hope that his antisocial personality would save the world, and a Star Trek fan who speaks only in palindromes.

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The title, Everything Happens for a Reason (but nothing happens for a GOOD reason), is a reference to this strip .

The interior of the book is black-and-white (it would cost way too much to print otherwise) but each strip takes up one page, unlike the older version where longer strips were split confusingly onto multiple pages. (For the longest strips, this means the text is very small, but still legible.) The mouseover text and blog posts are included... sometimes shortened, but also sometimes improved.

500 of the best early comics from the website www.abbyandnorma.com are contained here, along with extras like behind-the scenes photos and screenshots, copying-and-pasting bloopers, Halloween paper dolls, and two extra story arcs never posted on the site.

Available from Amazon and Lulu .

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Cover of the Abby and Norma Sociellany, one of the Mini-Books. The scene on the front is the characters Abby and Cathy, in the simple style of the comic, with speech balloons. Abby is saying the title of the book, and Cathy is saying WHEREIN ABBY MAKES FUN OF SOCIAL CUSTOMS. HOW DARE SHE.

Abby and Norma Minibooks

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Antheology - Anthologician - Compilegation - Compundium - Cultlection - Festivitreasury - Momnibus - Palindromicon - Psychosortment - Scianthology - Sociellany

Abby and Norma Minibooks.

For those who want their weird webcomics in smaller servings.

Is your favorite thing about "Abby and Norma" the vicious deconstruction of neurotypical social norms? Or Abby's obsessive exploration of legal loopholes and gray areas? Do you love the puns, but feel sad when Abby bashes down her mom's wistful hopes for grandchildren? Love the mom-bashing, but get annoyed when she debates religion with Chrissy? Love the religious debates, but hate Abby's badly-drawn doodles? Or do you read "Abby and Norma" solely for Ron and his palindromes?

Well, "Abby and Norma" Mini-Books are the answer for you! They're short printed collections ranging from 50 to 80 pages, and separated by topic.

Each costs only $5 or less, is printed on 8.5 x 11" paper with a grayscale interior and a full-color cover, and contains two bonuses (boni?) at the end:

(1). a pencil drawing of one of the characters in a realistic style, with an acrostic,

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(2). an Abby and Norma Blooper-- a screencap of a moment during the copying-and-pasting process when some unintended humor or weirdness existed for a few seconds.

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Collect all eleven (if you're into that) :

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The Abby and Norma Antheology

Wherein we make fun of religion.

The Abby and Norma Anthologician

Wherein we mess with logic, reason and everyone's head.

The Abby and Norma Compilegation

Wherein we deconstruct laws, rules and government.

The Abby and Norma Compundium

Wherein we play with SO MANY WORDS.

The Abby and Norma Cultlection