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"Sequential Drawings gathers together more than a decade of McGuire's witty and endlessly inventive spots--a veritable short story collection--each drawing given its own spread, which, in turn, assures for the reader the experience of surprise and delight that the drawings unfailingly deliver. Richard McGuire's first series of "spot" drawings debuted in the New Yorker in February 2005 for the magazine's 80th anniversary issue. Spot drawings, scattered...
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"A bear flies through space. A hamster suffers a breakdown. Elsewhere, a garden snake is arrested by animal control and jailed for home invasion, while a child marvels at the wonder of nature as worms emerge from the ground and begin looking for vodka (as they always have). These are common occurrences in the world of Reza Farazmand's wildly popular Web comic, Poorly Drawn Lines. Traveling from deep space to alternate realities to the bottom of the...
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In 2008, Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota launched the auto-bio webcomic Johnny Wander. Eight years, four cats, and three moves are chronicled in this gorgeous hardcover omnibus, which includes a foreword by Raina Telgemeier (Smile, Ghosts). Hirsh and Ota's charming reverie about new adulthood will appeal to fans of Kate Beaton, Bryan Lee O'Malley, and Jeffrey Brown--along with anyone who's just winging it.
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"What Am I Doing Here? is a startling masterwork by one of the forgotten innovators of American comics. In 1945, after more than a decade as a commercial illustrator--drawing advertisements and cartoons for Life, Time, Esquire, Newsweek, and many others--Abner Dean invented a genre all his own: One might call it the Existential Gag Cartoon. He used the elegant draftsmanship and single-panel format of the standard cartoons of the day, but turned them...
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Garfield classics volume 29
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"In this nifty collection, Garfield contemplates the advantages of growing older--and fatter! Whether he's settling in for a catatonic evening of TV viewing, testing the first law of physics on his back, or just hunting burgers in the kitchen, Garfield is sure to go light on the action and heavy on the laughs."--Page 4 of cover.
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Collects comics written and drawn by Matthew Inman from the website TheOatmeal.com, including "Why I don't cook at home," "The pros and cons of living with your significant other," and "How to fix any computer."
"Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants is a 168 page collection of comics, facts, and instructional guides from the online cartoonist and #1 New York Times Best-Selling Author known as The Oatmeal. The book contains a variety of Oatmeal...
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Garfield classics volume 58
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To Garfield, happiness is a full tummy (followed by a long nap).
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Collects all the "Peanuts" comic strips published from 1969 to 1970 in newspapers, including both daily and Sunday strips.
"Can there be any doubt that Peanuts is now deep into the tumultuous 1960s? Lucy declares herself a 'New Feminist, ' Peppermint Patty gets in trouble for violating her school's dress code, and Snoopy is caught in a riot at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, complete with tear gas. Not to mention the revelation that Snoopy's little bird...
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"A collection of the comics Time magazine called the Charlie Hebdo of the 1960s. The Realist was a legendary satirical periodical that ran from 1958 to 2001 and published some of the most incendiary cartoons that ever appeared in an American magazine. The Realist Cartoons collects, for the first time, the best, the wittiest, and the most provocative drawings that appeared in its pages, including work by R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, S. Clay Wilson, Jay...
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