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Created by the team that brought you The Complete Far Side and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, the massive anthology 40 marks Doonesbury's40th anniversary by examining in depth the characters that have given the strip such vitality. This third volume of the four-volume e-book edition of 40 covers the years 1990 to 1999 for the celebrated cartoon strip.
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Garden gnomes may be small, but their problems are often very big. They have issues with snowmen, magnets, bubblegum, and mimes. They really enjoy romance, skinny-dipping, and paper airplanes, but they have major issues with watermelons, mousetraps, trampolines, and teddy bears-and through it all they especially love one special thing. Artist Greg Stones turns his popular, playful illustration style to the tiny troubles of these beloved characters,...
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Sock Monkeys have issues with moths. They also have trouble with pterodactyls, home improvement projects, kittens (who tend to unravel them), and paparazzi. They really like bananas, jet packs, sock puppies, and romance, but have MAJOR issues with clowns, embarrassing relatives (King Kong), and gym socks. Through it all, they really adore one thing. Author of the breakout hit Zombies Hate Stuff, Greg Stones turns his popular, playfully absurd illustration...
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What is it that makes dictators fear cartoonists? The answer is that they can't stand to be ridiculed. And they don't help their cause much by so obviously enjoying the trappings of power, appearing in public with a retinue of bodyguards, a fleet of limousines and rows of medals across their chests topped off with over-sized sunglasses. Cartoonists may not be able to topple tyrants or change the course of history, but they can lessen the climate of...
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Why do things in moderation when you can just do everything? Cartoonist Dami Lee's hilarious four-panel comic collection illustrates her experience navigating identity, relationships, pop culture, and misunderstandings about basic human interactions, from growing up as a South Korean immigrant kid in the foreign land of Texas to finding her home as a professional cartoonist in cyberspace. With favorite selections from Dami's massively popular webcomic...
6) Rhyme Time
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Rhyme Time Synopsis (gangster/comedy): New York 1932, amidst the Great Depression 'Fat' Tony Palmenterri succeeds financially from his thriving underground casino and with the kickbacks his mafia henchmen take from the local merchants. One week prior to July 4th, three vendors Joseph Florentino, a butcher who lives in fear of his vicious wife, Morris Delveccio, a baker who is juggling two girlfriends, and Beau Verducci, a candle stick maker whose...
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I think I've been composing silly rhymes forever. It's in my genes. I can remember as a child, sitting with my family in front of a log fire where we often composed together, short, slightly wacky poems. These sessions frequently started as a result of one or other of us needing help with a school poetry project. I must say, it was a lot of fun and some were rather good. I think one was written for my brother about the school bus, based on the man...
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Aylia's remarkably oblivious parents decide to send her to college in our world. And then she meets her new roommate, a chemistry major who loves to blow things up. Things look bad.
This book contains all 266 strips of the first semester, plus an extra 40 strips that are only available in the book.
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"Stem & Seed" follows the story of a weed stem and seed coming to life due to a careless mishap. Animated and alive, the stem and the seed decide to embark on a journey to find out why they're the only sentient pair of their kind. The purpose of life will be challenged, the discovery of truth will be pursued, and the power of natural healing is highlighted as to tie it all together. It's a unique journey filled with laughter and revelation that you...
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A total of 194 color and black and white single panel gag cartoons feature Dan's favorite cartoons from his archives. Many of these cartoons are inspired by real people and certain scenarios the cartoonist experienced which many readers might also be able to relate to. A majority of these cartoons have never appeared in hardcopy print anywhere and were created exclusively for this book. Cartoonist Dan Rosandich has illustrated other well known books...
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Welcome to Endtown, a community of animal-like mutants and "impure" humans infected with a mutagenic virus living below Earth's post-apocalyptic surface. Driven by hunger, they venture out only in search of food, but must face bloodthirsty, mutated monstrosities and the constant threat of the Topsiders; un-mutated, technologically advanced humans bent on exterminating all mutations in order to create a genetically purified humanity. After a barfight...
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What do women want? Eternal happiness and eternal youth would be nice. Failing that, what about a good laugh? Like I Feel Bad About My Neck come to life on the page, When Do They Serve the Wine? explores the evolution of women through their lives and crises (physical, emotional, sartorial): the awkward teen years; the crisis of becoming a quarter-lifer; the unmistakable realization that if you're wearing a certain outfit in your forties, you might...
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One day Edna decides it is her life purpose to teach people how to have good manners, and how to behave in her correct ways. Her oh-so-important first lesson starts at a coffee shopexcept, well, Edna isnt as mannerly and correct as she thinks. In fact, Edna earns the nickname Enraged Edna, thanks to her illogical temper. Edna is clueless and pretty much thinks she may possibly be one of the most perfect people on the planet. Over the course of her...
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A collection of stories, observations and pet peeves. Brassy, breezy - some funny, some serious - always fast and edgy. Like a shot of whiskey in a white wine spritzer world.
"Bill is a master promoter. Nobody like him. Razor sharp. High spirited. Authentic. These juicy, inside stories about his wild career and also about life - told only the way he can tell them - are pure dynamite."
Billie Jean King
"I like Skip the Funeral ......
18) The Odysseys
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When I was kid I had gift of finding the humor in any and every situation. Whether it be my mom trying to control
me and my brothers, or the fly in the room that would annoy everyone including the cat. My imagination would go wild. To this day I am still finding myself seeing the funny in almost everything. So I decided to put my imagination down on paper, and what better way than to put my world into comic strips. In The Odyssey's you will be taken...
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A super-computing, experimental robot incorporating revolutionary next-generation technology falls out of the sky and lands on a golf course with nowhere to hide. In order to survive, he must learn to play the only game where perfection is impossible. The Perfect Round is the latest project from the creator and designer of Jewels of the Oracle, Jewels II and Forever Worlds CD-ROM games. Due to his extremely delicate sensors, it is absolutely forbidden...
20) Tall Tales
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An anthology of the innovative vertical comic strip by the legendary MAD Magazine contributor-with an introduction by Stephen Colbert.
Tall Tales was a one-of-a-kind newspaper strip that could only have come from the mind of Al Jaffee. While other newspaper strips are square, single-panel or multiple-panel horizontal gag cartoons, Jaffee, known for the Fold-In in MAD Magazine, once again altered the format of his work to create a vertical strip-the...
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