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Hostage’s Daughter
$27.99In this gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis, a journalist and daughter of one of the world’s most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, takes an intimate look at her father’s captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the ensuing political firestorm on both her family and the United States–as well as the far-reaching implications of…
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Inhuman Traffick: The International Struggle Against the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Graphic History
$42.00Inhuman Traffick tells for the first time a story of enslavement and freedom that spans the entire Atlantic world. Beginning in 1829 off the west coast of Africa with the recapture of the slave ship Neirsée–previously seized by the British Navy in its efforts to suppress the “inhuman traffick”–and ending with the liberation of the…
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Before Mickey: The Animated Film 1898-1928
$22.00An engaging account of the largely forgotten world of early animated films from Hollywood and beyond This witty and fascinating study reminds us that there was animation before Disney: about thirty years of creativity and experimentation flourishing in such extraordinary work as Gertiethe Dinosaur and Felix the Cat. Before Mickey, the first in-depth history of…
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Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism
$27.50Winner of the Popular Culture Association’s Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Book in Popular or American Culture In the 1940s and ’50s, comic books were some of the most popular–and most unfiltered–entertainment in the United States. Publishers sold hundreds of millions of copies a year of violent, racist, and luridly sexual comics to…
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The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin S Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe S Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings
$14.95“This is an absolutely delightful book. . . . Hubbard is considered to be a regional humorist, but like all really good humorists, he speaks to everyone.” –Humor: International Journal of Humor Research “Now an’ then an innocent man is sent t’ th’ legislature.” “When a feller says, ‘It hain’t th’ money, but th’ principle…
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Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels: A History of Graphic Narratives
$58.00This text examines comics, graphic novels, and manga with a broad, international scope that reveals their conceptual origins in antiquity. Graphic narrative art is a fascinating phenomenon that emerged centuries ago with the expansion of literacy and the publication industry. The earliest example of a repeating comic character dates back to the late 1700s. By…
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Comics and Videogames: From Hybrid Medialities to Transmedia Expansions
$200.00Comics and Videogames offers the first comprehensive study of the many interfaces shaping the relationship between comics and videogames. It combines in-depth conceptual investigations of hybridity and transmedia storytelling with a rich selection of paradigmatic case studies from contemporary media culture.
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Comics and Videogames: From Hybrid Medialities to Transmedia Expansions
$59.99Comics and Videogames offers the first comprehensive study of the many interfaces shaping the relationship between comics and videogames. It combines in-depth conceptual investigations of hybridity and transmedia storytelling with a rich selection of paradigmatic case studies from contemporary media culture.
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Amphigorey Too
$25.00This follow-up to the darkly humorous Amphigorey is wittier, more macabre, and more wondrous than ever. Master illustrator and iconic gothic storyteller Edward Gorey gives his fans 20 more nonsensically and mind-bending tales that draw fans and unsuspecting newcomers into a world only he can create. Gorey’s pen-and-ink drawings spur the imagination and satisfy fans…
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Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods
$235.00Critical Approaches to Comics offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics.
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Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods
$72.99Critical Approaches to Comics offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics.
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People I Want To Punch In The Throat: Blue Gag Notebook, Journal
$31.096 X 9 GAG NOTEBOOK/JOURNAL! 110 LINED PAGES! A sarcastic gag gift journal that is sure to get tons of laughs! Take with you everywhere you go. Funny title makes a great conversation piece. Use it as a notebook, journal or diary!
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People I Want To Punch In The Face: Black Cover Design Gag Notebook, Journal
$18.876 X 9 GAG NOTEBOOK/JOURNAL! 110 LINED PAGES! A sarcastic gag gift journal that is sure to get tons of laughs! Take with you everywhere you go. Funny title makes a great conversation piece. Use it as a notebook, journal or diary!
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Le Pastiche Tintin 2: 222 ‘Lost’ Tintins
$40.00Le Pastiche Tintin 2, a second flick through Tintin pastiches and parodies and the world of Hergé. New Zealand art historian John Stringer gathers another 222 tributes to this global comic phenomenon (333 in vol.s 1-2). Parodies, tributes and lampoons have mushroomed like Shooting Star fungi since 1983 when Hergé died and the adventures ceased….
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101 Uses for a Dead Cat
$9.99Since time immemorial mankind has been plagued by the question “What do you do with a dead cat?” Here, at last, in 101 hilarious, outrageous, and (sometimes) downright sick cartoons, are some answers. 101 black-and-white illustrations.