Getting Married and Other Mistakes Paperback - 2012

“Written with heartbreaking pathos—and drawn with sly humor—Barbara Slate's comic novel is a must-read for any woman who has ever been cheated on, owned a Barbie, or once believed their mother's version of ‘happily ever after’. Skip the pity party and buy this book!” —Josie Brown, author, Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives and The Housewife Assassin's Handbook

“It can be argued that those who can retain a sense of humor in the face of heartbreak and disillusionment get through it better than most, and Barbara Slate demonstrates just that…Slate’s humor shines through in every panel, softening the edges of what might otherwise seem bleak.” –Chasing Chapters

“She’s drawn Barbie, Betty & Veronica, Scooby-Doo, and Disney fairy tales. But real life ain’t like that. Slate’s two-dimensional persona Jo, a successful wedding photographer, gets dumped by her husband after an unblissful union and jumps on the self-awareness rollercoaster. Gets laid, sees a shrink, dates up a storm…nothing works until she figures out how to wield her own drumsticks. Slate’s fictionalized memoir is billed as “savagely funny and emotionally honest. The cover says it all.” —Library Journal

“Using insightful jocular graphics, Getting Married and Other Mistakes is a fabulous amusing yet serious look at a woman who has ignored self-actualization by adhering to mom’s spousal mantra of perfection. Filled with pathos and humor (the boyfriends and DontBeAnOldMaid.com are terrific segues), readers will root for the heroine to find her inner self” —Genre Go Round Reviews

"Jo begins the book wallowing, but you can’t help but be persuaded that Slate’s bold, colorful, broad strokes – Jo’s electric hair, her matching glossy fingernails, her oversized emerald doe-eyes, her perfectly gleaming pink lip gloss – will soon enough infuse our heroine with inspired motivation. As for Jo’s memories, as disturbing as some might be, Slate’s use of simplified line drawings mostly in gray tones seems to be assurance that the past is definitely past…and real life now happens in technicolor. Good advice for sure, whether married or mistaken: we can all strive to experience life every moment, brilliantly, boldly…and hopefully for better than for worse!" —Bookdragon

“Slate’s book makes this oh so clear to readers with crisp, eye-popping graphics. She is the Roy Lichtenstein for the X, Y, and Girls generations.” –Single Minded Women

"Jo’s journey is a familiar one in general, but the devil, as they say, is in the details, and the details here are fascinating and her journey is a blast to read."- Comic Book Resources

Barbara Slate's work includes greeting cards, comic strips, animated segments for NBC's "Today "show, and more than 300 comic books and graphic novels. She created, wrote, and drew "Angel Love "for DC Comics and "Yuppies from Hell "and "Sweet XVI "for Marvel, and wrote the comic book series of the Disney classics "Beauty and the Beast "and "Pocahontas, "more than 60 comics of Mattel's Barbie (winner of the Parents' Choice Award two years in a row), and more than 100 "Betty and Veronica "stories for Archie Comics. Barbara is profiled in the seminal book, "A Century of Women Cartoonists."