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Popular Internet comic strip following Sabrina (World's favorite
net-surfing skunk girl) and gang of characters as they experiment
with romance, real life and the Internet, to explain a few facts of
life. Special 164 pages 8.5x11 Hardback Edition. Collection
covering first 10 years/issues of Sabrina online comic, plus extra
features including "Sabrina at See-CAD," "Amy's Wedding," Out-takes
& many more not covered on Internet version. Created, written,
and drawn by Eric W. Schwartz with extra artwork from many other
talented guest artists.
A box-set facsimile collection of three classic SNOOPY comic strip
books - SNOOPY, SNOOPY, COME HOME and SUNDAY'S FUN DAY, CHARLIE
BROWN. With each book containing 128 pages, that's over 360 pages
of classic Peanuts daily and Sunday newspaper comic strips to
enjoy. Including art cards featuring the cover art from the
individual books. This boxed set collects the first three
Snoopy-centric books and many of your favourite characters,
including Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Pig-Pen, Schroeder
and Woodstock. Discover the world of Snoopy as he battles to save
his beloved doghouse, fantasies about being a dinosaur and embarks
on his epic career as the Phantom Punter, that is when he's not
dancing, avoiding cats or pondering on the vagaries of life. SNOOPY
(1955-1958) 9781782761594 SNOOPY, COME HOME (1955-1962)
9781787737051 SUNDAY'S FUN DAY, CHARLIE BROWN (1962-1965)
9781787737099
A collection of comics with a millennial take on marriage,
adulthood, pet ownership, self-love, and self-care. Finally, comics
that answer life's most pressing questions: Is my partner actually
upset or just hangry? Whose turn is it to remember the reusable
shopping bags? Is it appropriate to put up Halloween decor two
months in advance? (Spoiler alert: Yes. Yes, it is.) "Opposites
attract" has never rung truer when it comes to vivacious extrovert
Meg and her level-headed introvert husband, Carson. Carson makes
his coffee with only the finest locally roasted beans; Meg
microwaves two-day-old joe. Carson is reserved and rarely opens up
to friends; Meg ensures everyone in her life-including her
mailman-knows about her hemorrhoid. From the joys of marrying your
best friend to the bizarre musings of a twelve-pound pup to the
humor and heartbreak of anxiety, Meg's all-too-relatable comics
leave no stone unturned. Dorky and downright hilarious, Why Are You
Like This? explores what it means to make fun of oneself and find
laughter in the little things.
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Bob Joseph; Illustrated by Bart E. Slyp
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From bestselling author Liz Climo comes You're Mum, a hilarious and
relatable ode to motherhood. Mums: they are there for us through
the good, the bad, the scary, the sticky and everything in between.
They also read us a lot of picture books along the way, and now
there's a picture book just for them. With more than a hundred
original drawings, You're Mum is a book for the new mum, the
seasoned mum, anyone in a mum-like role, and anyone who has ever
loved a mum. It's a short and sweet thank-you to those taking on
the challenging role of parenting - which means you can read it and
then hopefully get some sleep!
For those who are crazy enough to keep failing... Award winning
entrepreneur and author of popular webcomic series EntrepreNo's:
Secret to Startup Failure Sonia Lin unveils a startup life full of
failures, based off her iconic humor in the webcomics that are
weaved into practical themes in a startup life, coupled with words
of advice to fellow entrepreneurs. The "fail fast, fail cheap, fail
happy" mantra of this book commits to promoting work-life balance
and the ability to look beyond and laugh at the startup life
vicissitudes in order to achieve long-term entrepreneurial success.
Get ready for Secret to Startup Failure to: Get over a
less-than-successful launch day Pick a co-founder who provides
politics-free companionship Interpret productivity from the garbage
can Have an investor call on St. Patrick's Day ... and more Startup
life is long, so fail where you should, and laugh when you can.
The seed that grew into this guide was planted twenty years before
it was published in the newspaper archives of Rhodes University,
South Africa. As a journalism student the author was leafing
through an old newspaper researching an assignment when he was
struck dumb by a cartoon that, in just a few brushes, conveyed more
than he could ever hope to write on the subject. This drawing of
South Africa's political battlelines has produced not only a
fascinating and informative look at the world of South Africa's
political cartoons, but also at South African politics and
journalism - a world cartoons portray in a way words cannot. Every
day most major newspapers carry a cartoon comment on some topical
subject or event- mostly political in nature. The reader's reaction
to this supposedly humorous comment may vary from a wry smile to an
agreeable full belly laugh, from outrage to righteous
indignation.;What the reactions have in common is that they are
emotional rather than reasoned responses that mask the messages in
the cartoons. In Penpricks not only are the messages revealed, but
at the same time the reader will glimpse South African politics
from the other side of the mirror that the South African press
holds up to its unique society.
Wonder Woman, Amazon Princess; Asterix, indefatigable Gaul;
Ozymandias, like Alexander looking for new worlds to conquer.
Comics use classical sources, narrative patterns, and references to
enrich their imaginative worlds and deepen the stories they
present. Son of Classics and Comics explores that rich interaction.
This volume presents thirteen original studies of representations
of the ancient world in the medium of comics. Building on the
foundation established by their groundbreaking Classics and Comics
(OUP, 2011), Kovacs and Marshall have gathered a wide range of
studies with a new, global perspective. Chapters are helpfully
grouped to facilitate classroom use, with sections on receptions of
Homer, on manga, on Asterix, and on the sense of a 'classic' in the
modern world. All Greek and Latin are translated. Lavishly
illustrated, the volume widens the range of available studies on
the reception of the Greek and Roman worlds in comics
significantly, and deepens our understanding of comics as a
literary medium. Son of Classics and Comics will appeal to students
and scholars of classical reception as well as comics fans.
Confront the spectre of failure, the wraith of social media, and
other supernatural enemies of the author Tom Gauld returns with his
wittiest and most trenchant collection of literary cartoons to
date. Perfectly composed drawings are punctuated with the artist's
signature brand of humour, hitting high and low. After all, Gauld
is just as comfortable taking jabs at Jane Eyre and Game of
Thrones. Some particularly favoured targets include the pretentious
procrastinating novelist, the commercial mercenary of the
dispassionate editor, the wilful obscurantism of the vainglorious
poet. Quake in the presence of the stack of bedside books as it
grows taller! Gnash your teeth at the ever-moving deadline that the
writer never meets! Quail before the critic's incisive dissection
of the manuscript! And most importantly, seethe with envy at the
paragon of creative productivity! Revenge of the Librarians
contains even more murders, drubbings and castigations than The
Department of Mind-Blowing Theories, Baking For Kafka or any other
collections of mordant scribblings by the inimitably excellent
Gauld.
WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable
questions, using science. The Sunday Times-bestselling author and
xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers
yet to the important questions you probably never thought to ask
The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If?
still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger.
Planning to ride a fire pole from the moon back to Earth? The
hardest part is sticking the landing. Hoping to cool the atmosphere
by opening everyone's freezer doors at the same time? Maybe it's
time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics. Want to know what
would happen if you rode a helicopter blade, built a billion-storey
building, made a lava lamp out of lava, or jumped on a geyser as it
erupted? Okay, if you insist. Welcome (back) to the mind-blowing
world of What If? Unfazed by absurdity, Randall consults the latest
research on everything from swing-set physics to airplane-catapult
design to clearly and concisely answer his readers' questions. As
he consistently demonstrates, you can learn a lot from examining
how the world might work in very specific extreme circumstances.
Filled with bonkers science, boundless curiosity, and Randall's
signature stick-figure comics, What If? 2 is sure to be another
instant classic adored by inquisitive readers of all ages.
Pusheen the Cat is back with a brand-new collection of adorable
comics, expert advice, and silly antics featuring Pusheen and all
her friends! Whether you're hoping to learn how to tell if your cat
is a Vampurr or looking to study a comprehensive guide to being
lazy-Pusheen has got you covered in this super cute guide to
everything! This delightful collection of comics and illustrations
features some of the most popular and purr-fectly adorable Pusheen
comics you know and love, plus a healthy serving of
never-before-seen material. Pusheen the Cat has charmed millions of
fans worldwide with her humor, bounces, and tail wiggles. Join in
on the fun with this super cute collection perfect for cat lovers
and comics fans alike!
Due to the huge success of her graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family
Tragicomic in 2006 and its subsequent Tony Award-winning musical
adaptation in 2009, Alison Bechdel (b. 1960) has recently become a
household name. However, Bechdel, who has won numerous awards
including a MacArthur Fellowship, has been writing and drawing
comics since the early 1980s. Her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out
For (DTWOF) stood out as one of the first to depict lesbians in
popular culture and is widely hailed as an essential LGBTQ
resource. It is also from this comic strip that the wildly popular
Bechdel Test-a test to gauge positive female representation in
film-obtained its name. While DTWOF secured Bechdel's role in the
comics world and queer community long before her mainstream
success, Bechdel now experiences notoriety that few comics artists
ever achieve and that women cartoonists have never attained.
Spanning from 1990 to 2017, Alison Bechdel: Conversations collects
ten interviews that illustrate how Bechdel uses her own life,
relationships, and contemporary events to expose the world to what
she has referred to as the ""fringes of acceptability""-the comics
genre as well as queer culture and identity. These interviews
reveal her intentionality in the use of characters, plots,
structure, and cartooning to draw her readers toward disrupting the
status quo. Starting with her earliest interviews on public access
television and in little-known comics and queer presses, Rachel R.
Martin traces Bechdel's career from her days with DTWOF to her
popularity with Fun Home and Are You My Mother? This volume
includes her ""one-off"" DTWOF strips from November 2016 and March
2017 (not anthologized anywhere else) and in-depth discussions of
her laborious creative process as well as upcoming projects.
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