The world became all too real for Judd Winick in 1993 as one of seven "stars" of MTV's Real World III, a pioneering reality-based television show. It was then that he met not only his future partner, Pam Ling, but also temporary housemate Pedro Zamora, a young man from Florida whose eventual death from AIDS would bring the tragic effects of that disease home to millions of young television viewers. Zamora, an AIDS activist, inspired Winick, a promising young cartoonist, to hit the lecture circuit for over a year after the filming of The Real World to speak with young people about AIDS-related issues. In 2000 Winick published a moving and honest graphic-novel account of his friendship with Zamora, Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned. Additionally, Winick is also a popular cartoonist, author, and illustrator of, among other things, the comic strip "Frumpy the Clown," which follows...