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AWARDS FOR GOOD BOYS

Shelby D. Lorman

Tales of Dating, Double Standards, and Doom

From the creator of the wildly popular Instagram account @AwardsForGoodBoys (262.000 followers), a wickedly funny illustrated look at living and dating within a patriarchal culture so mired in misogyny that it celebrates men for displaying the bare minimum of human decency.

With Cannes-like laurel leaves, trophies, and ribbons, cartoonist and comedian Shelby Lorman makes literal our collective tendency to applaud men for (barely) eking above our already subterranean standards for them—for being “good boys”.

A good boy puts “feminist” in his Tinder bio but talks over the women in his Gender Studies class without batting an eyelash. He ghosts you, but he feels momentarily guilty about it. He once read a book by a woman author. (It was required, but he thought it was “okay”.) And of course, the headlines are filled with good boys bravely issuing statements condemning sexual harassment (for PR purposes).

Through Shelby's signature illustrations, comics, and written vignettes, Awards for Good Boys offers hilarious cultural commentary through which we may begin to unravel our own assumptions about gender roles and how we treat each other, both on and offline.

Shelby Lorman is a writer, illustrator, and comedian from Los Angeles, and the creator of the Instagram sensation @AwardsForGoodBoys. Her writing has appeared on The Cut, The Daily Beast, CNN, and Business Insider. Her illustrations have been featured by Comedy Central, Vice, The Independent, and The Huffington Post.
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Published 2019-06-01 by Penguin Books

Comments

"Hilarious...a perfect moment to celebrate the tragicomic—or find humor in life's darkened corners."

Korea: Bookrecipe; UK: Hutchinson;

“This pithy extension of comedian Lorman's Instagram account combines illustrations with essays to comment on dating and living among the ‘good boys'—a label Lorman uses to refer to ‘the praise we heap on men for meeting the barest of minimums, for avoiding being the Out-right Worst.'...While Lorman's illustrations take center stage, the written vignettes add personal background that her fans will appreciate."

“Shelby and her art are extremely my shit. You need this book.” —Samantha Irby, New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life

“Funny, intelligent, weary and based on her popular Instagram account, Awards for Good Boys takes a critical look at the men whose actual treatment of women doesn't quite jibe with the feminist politics they parrot...The gift of Awards for Good Boys lies in the way it lightly bops you on the head with the clarity you need to see through the madness disguising itself as acceptable.”

“A good read for feminists who need to laugh so they don't cry.”