Book Review

Minimum Wage: Book Two

Details Writer: Bob Fingerman; Genre: Fiction

Minimum Wage: Book Two is the continuing romance and adventures of comics illustrator Rob and his gal pal, Sylvia, told by cartoonist Fingerman in graphic-novel form with the sort of earthy realism so often missing from conventional prose novels. New York City bohemians who eke out their livings, experiment with integrating love and lust, and grow from young lovers to a mature, committed couple, Rob and Sylvia are vivid, unheroic heroes. If the minimum wage frequently isn't quite enough to keep them going, their maximum involvement with each other will keep a reader intensely committed. A-

Originally posted Apr 24, 1998 Published in issue #428 Apr 24, 1998 Order article reprints

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