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Study the tenets of Plato, the wrestling superstar from ancient Greece, learn the lessons of Nietzsche, the original übermensch, and meditate on the messages of Bodhidharma, a kung fu master. Laugh, learn, laugh some more, and ponder the messages of history’s great thinkers as Van Lente and Dunlavey deliver this comprehensive cartoon history from the…
DC Comics’ Joker has been a goofy trickster, a giggling lunatic, a psychopathic killer, a methodical mastermind, a failed comedian, and an unstoppable force. It all depends on the writer and artist telling the story. He’s the Clown Prince of Crime, the Man Who Laughs, an agent of chaos. He has no special abilities or…
My Husband’s Eyebrows is a humorous examination and honest celebration of Grabel’s long marriage-its good, its bad, its ugly-told through a collection of prose poems and poetry, punctuated by the author’s richly colored, exuberant, exaggerated illustrations. “Generously candid and open-hearted, this book gives us its bracing gift: full spectrum marital truths that are as irresistible…
Comic books transcend space and time. Regardless of one’s grasp of language, comic books allow the reader to insert themselves into the action by way of simple, exciting four-color graphics. Centered around Canadian war stories within American comic books, the comics featured in this book have a unique spirit to them and play a colorful role in popular culture and history storytelling.
Damm’s distinctive style of collage transforms 1950s horror comics into true stories of artistic failure. One artist’s quixotic quest to clone Martin Luther King, Jr. A pioneering silent film director pushed from the industry by her controlling husband. A writer who tries to write popular fiction but ends up in the avant-garde. Featuring radical Argentinian…
Below Average reveals the untold story of the generation of women in between Sex and the City and Girls: just swap the Manolos for tall cans, the selfies for shame–and throw in a marginally insane Vietnam Vet father. Every girl who feels like she doesn’t measure up will feel less alone after reading Below Average,…
A god and a fool walk into a bar… In Holy Fools and Funny Gods, philosopher and cartoonist Izar Lunacek explores the surprising intersections between religion and comedy. Many view religion as a monument to eternal truth. Comedy, on the other hand, is the eternal iconoclast. This conflict between jokers and the faithful frequently marks…
The protagonist of An Eternity in Tangiers is a teenager named Gawa, who leaves his native city, the imaginary West African capital of Gnasville, hoping to find a better life in Europe, where he hopes to escape the turmoil of his home country. Following a journey fraught with dangers and betrayals, Gawa is stranded in…
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Nearly seventy years after his death Aleister Crowley, the notorious Beast 666, is only just beginning to attract serious academic attention. Even so we would not expect to find him on any mainstream university courses; he is still too much associated with occultism. So,…
“Coe has a message to deliver, and her visceral, graphic imagery doesn’t pull any punches. Coe’s righteous anger, not to mention her confident hand and riveting compositions, will hold your eye and haunt your mind.” —New Yorker In Zooicide, Sue Coe employs her bold artistic style to confront the institution of zoos. They are, she…
What is beauty, and what is truth? These are some of the questions which aesthetics tries to answer. In our everyday life, we talk about the ‘aesthetics’ of an artwork or a piece of design. But aesthetics goes beyond the simple experience of art. It is also a branch of philosophy concerned with the whole…
Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. It is a slave narrative of a black man…
Anger Management Guidebook for Teens: Mindfulness and Self-Control Strategies for Overcoming Stress and Controlling Negative Emotions Navigating the teenage years can be like sailing through a storm. Emotions run high, stress levels rise, and it can be all too easy for anger to take the helm. But what if you could learn to navigate these…
Cartoons by John Ryan, better known as the creator of Captain Pugwash, provide a personal portrait of the extraordinary ups and downs of religion in the Sixties-encompassing the machinations of popes and cardinals, the testimony of expert witnesses, runaway priests, radical reformists and lay protest movements.
Writer, artist, and filmmaker Chris Shepherd’s debut graphic novel depicts a beautiful coming of age story centered around growing up in the working-class dynamics of Merseyside in the late eighties. For fans of emotional stories about family and ambition and set in the rich history of Liverpool. As Conor Sterling is about to turn 18,…
At long last, by popular demand, the colouring book market comes of age with this glorious tribute to Margaret Thatcher. Featuring a cast including Ronald Reagan, Winston Churchill, and General Augusto Pinochet, this brief, beautiful, and completely inaccurate illustrated biography of Britain’s first female Prime Minister promises hours of creative gratification. By turns inspirational and…
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