Hmmm… This is a peculiar book, and no mistake. A comic creator gets a whole bunch of people to illustrate the different short stories he can garner from his 'career' of going from typical American 'ooh, I don't look like they do in the movies' prude to 'hey, Berlin, here's my cock if you wanna look!' spa user. There is no real examination of how a man can be so sharing and creative on the page and so tight personally, but once he's in the full swing of things the book is quite fun. The stories g...

Quick, easy read of vignettes about getting naked in foreign settings. Fun travelogues mixed with some interesting philosphy about being "naked".

Stories become insanely redundant. I stopped reading after about 70 pages, and decided it wasn’t worth my time to finish it.

This book was interesting, and the art style was quite varied, but it wasn't really interesting in the way that I had hoped. There were several parts that had some really engaging and interesting parts about nudity in different parts of the world. There were also several parts that were really only tangentially related to the topic, and I didn't find those sections very engaging. Not quite the deep dive about nudity I was expecting, but as a decent enjoyable surface look it was fairly enjoyable....

As an American man born and raised in the Puritan states of New England, I don't often get publicly naked. And I've never really thought about why.This series of graphic essays about what being naked means in various parts of the world is super interesting. and more personal than academic, but more informative than traumatic.The art all skews toward indie/underground comic style, but that's super okay with me.I recommend this for anyone looking for an unusual graphic novel read. The publishers m...

Steven T Seagle gets naked in various parts of the world – anecdotal and quite entertainingIllustrated by a collection of artists, mainly from Denmark but also from other parts of the world, this collection is a series of anecdotes, linked by places where Steven T Seagle has got naked, usually in spa and sauna situations.It is a curious collection, entertaining enough and probably quite weird for the American population who don't always understand what happens in other parts of the world and can...

This was very good! Not "humor" like its Eisner nomination claimed it was, but thoughtful and sometimes sweet comments on cultural differences around nudity as well as body image and confidence. And ayyyyyyyy *finger guns* to the comment about Armenian women

There are a lot of books that I enjoy, but not nearly as many that really make me think. This collection of graphic essays by Steven Seagle explores the concept of nudity throughout the world from the perspective of an American and manages to make some very cogent arguments for Americans to loosen up on the topic. It's a journey, and each of the essays tackles it in a manner that is part travelogue, part autobiography. Several are very funny (especially one about a phantom scent and an airport b...

Graphic essays. Lol, reeeeaaaaalll graphic. I love the idea of non-fiction graphic novels, and I have enjoyed almost any one that I have seen because it is a rarity. The cover is ugly. If the Title were not so provocative I would never have looked inside.But I did look, and NONE of the art stood out to me.EVEN SO, the idea behind this book is brilliant, and reading this was paradigm shifting.

OMG! I had a lot of fun with the essays, situations and illustrations depicted on this...

L’été, le soleil, les piscines et la mer nous poussent naturellement à nous confronter au corps et à la nudité plus ou moins complète. Alors que l’on a tous nos complexes et nos craintes du jugement et de juger, je découvre ce très bon comics de Steven t. Seagle et 19 dessinateurs sur l’expérience d’un américain, élevé dans un univers où se mettre nu semble un énorme tabou, face à la nudité dans les lieux publics (piscines municipales, spa, vestiaires...) un peu partout dans le monde. Plein d’an...

More travel memoir than anything else, the author has gotten naked in many countries mostly because of his affinity for swimming pools and hot saunas. Not as salacious as the title and cover imply.The storytelling was fine, the art done by many different people, the message clear that the rest of the world handles nudity better than the US.

I loved this book and it’s message, I personally have never subscribed to America’s taboo feelings towards nudity.If I didn’t have skin whiter than snow I’d be a nudist most of the time, but wandering around my house after a shower when no one is home will have to do.In Finland, Japan, Denmark, almost the entire world, they have a much healthier relationship with nudity than the US, we’re the black sheep.Literally everyone, every single person is born with a body, and we as a country made it a m...

This graphic novel is made up of 19 essays written by Seagle and his experiences and observations towards global attitudes around nudity. Each essay is illustrated by a different artist, giving each story its own unique voice in this collection of stories. I love how different each experience and artistic styles are from each other. I also love learning about different cultures, and was a very unique way to learn.

Stephen Seagle writes a series of graphical essays on getting naked in different cities around the world, mostly when visiting spas. It's an interesting premise that most Americans are too uptight to get naked in public. I happen to be one of them. But I don't need an almost 300 page graphic novel on the topic. Seagle flogs a dead horse with most of the chapters as it's the same story of visiting a spa in whatever city he's visiting.

I had never read a graphic essay, but this one, as it seems, was, and I enjoyed, even if at the beginning I found the topic not so interesting, but the more I read, the more I was fascinated by the different illustrators and the way they handled the story.Non avevo mai letto un graphic essay, ma questo a quanto pare é uno dei primi e mi é piaciuto, anche se all'inizio, il fatto di essere nudi in diverse cittá non pensavo fosse un argomento poi tanto interessante, invece poi, a mano a mano che la...

An interesting look at how one's attitudes about their body can change over the years, and some frank discussion of how American attitudes differ from the rest of the world, I enjoyed most of this book. I feel like it could have been cut down by about 25%, though, especially near the end, where there is less deep thinking going on.

At times thoughtful, at times insanely funny, this is a wonderful comic to show the fixation on not disrobing. Filled with different styles of art and humor, my favorite was the one about swimming in the baby pool and the Czech spa experience complete with power hosing and metal cadaver-like tables. Thanks for letting me view this graphic novel just in time. Access to review copy provided by the publisher.

The premise of this book is that American comics writer, Steven Seagel, was born into a society that was once as accepting and respectful of the human body but has, since the late 1970s/early 1980s, strictly denounced nudity and even in non-religious spaces made the naked body a shameful/sinful thing to cover up as much as possible - but Steven is going to relearn the beauty and wonder of the naked human body! That does happen, I guess, but not in a way that I think most readers will expect from...