Welcome to Johnny's world and the first-ever collection of cartoons from the wildly popular webcomic! Johnny Optimism is a darkly comic look at a wheelchair-bound boy who lives in a very strange hospital, and his unending effort to look on the bright side because "things could always get worse." And they do get worse, time after time. Johnny interacts with a highly unusual collection of medical professionals, bureaucrats, strange kids, fellow sufferers, a manic helper monkey, a creepy clown and more - getting real comfort only from his faithful dog, Lance. Together they're trying to cope with Life.just like the rest of us. * Deliciously sick humor for fans of Gahan Wilson, Charles Addams, The Far Side, or Max Cannon's Red Meat. * A great "get well" present whether you actually want the recipient to get well or not. * 600 cartoons! Read it in the bathroom until, like Johnny, you can't feel your legs anymore! * Author's notes on where "Johnny Optimism" came from, and why it's not as sick as you think.

Maybe. * A perfect gift for anyone in the medical field. Or an undertaker. * Do your part to put a copy of this book in every doctor's waiting room nationwide! Be the Johnny Appleseed of sick humor!.