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"You know how, since the dawn of humanity, great philosophers and poets have dedicated their entire lives to exploring concepts like love, life itself, logic, and sorrow? Well, those great philosophers and poets are dead now, so I win." Shen Emotions Explained With Buff Dudes is your fully illustrated guide to the hyper-conflicted, tragicomic feelings of our age. Featuring the resilient, shaggy-haired Shen, this debut collection of Owlturd Comix...
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Actual events may provide plenty of grist for the cartoon mill, but it takes a mind like Garry Trudeau's to sift through it for the hilarious kernel of truth. From the Bill Clinton-Ken Starr face-off to high-flying Internet start-ups to new ways to plagiarize term papers, Trudeau hones in on the things we take so seriously and livens them up with craftyjolts of jocularity. In this Doonesbury collection, Buck Wild Doonesbury, Trudeau is at his best....
123) Drawn To Berlin
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Ali Fitzgerald is an artist trying to find herself in a rapidly changing city facing an influx of asylum seekers. In Berlin, she teaches an art class to displaced people who have traveled from war-torn countries such as Syria and Afghanistan. Given Fitzgeralds encouragement, her students take pen in hand and express their painful memories of home and cautious optimism about their new life.Revealing the humanity behind the politics of immigration,DrawntoBerlinis...
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The Backstagers are back in (stage) blacks, for a festive collection of Valentine's Day and Halloween stories! Join Jory and the rest of the Backstagers as they wrestle with anti-Valentine crusades, totally creepy phantoms (NOT of the opera), and the everpresent magic of the backstage world in this romantically spooky third volume of the hit series. Reuniting the Prism Award-winning team of writer James Tynion IV (Detective Comics, Justice League)...
125) Beaver Bev
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Fall is here and Beaver Bev must prepare for winter. Colorful illustrations and decodable text will help encourage emergent readers.
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From the dark days of sleep deprivation to the cacophony of a tri-kid family, Baby Bluesrevealsthe true dark underbelly of parenting to the delight of newspaper readers everywhere. Like a comic epidural, or butt cream on a raging diaper rash, this comic strip has helped take some of the sting out of parenting for countless parents around the world.Baby Blues transcends the comic page by fusing the award-winning imaginations of Rick Kirkman and Jerry...
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Cuando Carlos tena 19 aos, su mam decidi dejar su vida en El Salvador y buscar un nuevo comienzo en Estados Unidos. Para el viaje al norte, contrat los servicios de un coyote. Carlos se resista a ir, pero no quiso dejar que su mam partiera sin l y decidi unirse. En su recorrido a travs de Mxico, vivieron los riesgos y miedos que incontables personas de pases centroamericanos enfrentan al emigrar a otras tierras. Diez aos despus, Carlos comparte estos...
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In this current political climate, being a Palestinian is a hazard. However, there are common grounds where East meets West.The Hookah Girlis a semi-autobiographical graphic novel of a childhood as a Christian Palestinian in America. Told in short stories and with narrative ranging from growing up in a refugee family to how to roll waraq (stuffed grape leaves), this book is an account of living in two seemingly different cultures that actually arent...
129) Alone Forever
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Liz Prince, author of the world's cutest relationship comic, Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed?, returns with a new comic about being -- gasp! -- SINGLE. At last bringing her popular webcomic to printed form, Alone Forever explores the joys of flying solo, free to focus on what really matters: comics, punk rock, and cute boys with beards.
130) Idil Steps In
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Idil is friends with Ben and Pete, but Pete isn't treating Ben very well. Pete interrupts Ben and leaves him out of activities. Idil steps in to show Ben that everyone deserves respect.
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"This is the story of Carlos and Elena, the story of thousands, the story of my country . . . This is just another story." When Carlos was nineteen years old, his mother decided to leave her life in El Salvador for a new start in the United States. Reluctant to follow, but unwilling to let his mother go without him, Carlos joined her on the journey north. During their trip through Mexico and into the US, they experienced the risks and fears countless...
133) Doonesbury: Yuge!
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He tried to warn us. Ever since the release of the first Trump-for-President trial balloon in 1987, Doonesbury's Garry Trudeau has tirelessly tracked and highlighted the unsavory career of the most unqualified candidate to ever aspire to the White House. It's all there--the hilarious narcissism, the schoolyard bullying, the loathsome misogyny, the breathtaking ignorance; and a good portion of the Doonesbury cast has been tangled up in it. Join Duke,...
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"I don't read Doonesbury. He glorifies drugs." --Former White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater Welcome to the age of pivots. Two centuries after the Founding Fathers signed off on happiness, Zonker Harris and nephew Zipper pull up stakes and head west in hot pursuit. The dream? Setting up a major grow facility outside Boulder, Colorado, and becoming bajillionaire producers of "artisanal" marijuana. For Zonk, it's the crowning reset of...
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A young girl imagines a grand future for herself, far from the drab British suburbs. Two friends, once inseparable, find their connection gradually slipping away. Three women discuss how life in the big city makes them feel seen or invisible. In a series of interconnected vignettes, Its Not What You Thought It Would Be explores the circuitous paths lives can take and the changes in perspective gained along the way.In a series of interconnected vignettes,...
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In this chronological collection, readers get a close-up view inside the home of the MacPhersons, a perfectly normal family with perfectly chaotic lives. Daryl and Wanda are deep in the trenches of childrearing and earning their stripes as parents to Zoe, Hammie, andWren. Baby Blues expertly illustrates why Band-Aids remain in short supply, tattling and teasing lead to time-outs, and an unplanned visit to the dentist or auto mechanic occurs just...
137) Soppy: A Love Story
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The wildly popular web comic SOPPY--with more than half a million notes on Tumblr--is the illustrated love story of author Philippa Rice and her real-life boyfriend. True love isn't always about the big romantic gestures. Sometimes it's about sympathizing with someone whose tea has gone cold or reading together and sharing a quilt. When two people move in together, it soon becomes apparent that the little things mean an awful lot. The throwaway moments...
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Experimenta la fascinante y poderosa historia del movimiento de derechos civiles de los nativos americanos y su lucha por la identidad contada a travs de la carrera de los pioneros del rock and roll de la costa oeste de Redbone. Ya has escuchado la exitosa cancin "Come and Get Your Love" en la pelcula Guardianes de la Galaxia, pero la historia de la banda detrs de la cancin es de gran importancia cultural, poltica y social. Los hermanos Pat y Lolly...
139) SwordQuest #0
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Peter Case was a boy on a quest. The quest to win the prizes from Ataris SwordQuest challenge! He was counting down the days to the release of the final game, AirWorld, only to be shattered when the news surfaced that it would never be released. Now Peter is an adultand things arent going well. The bad news is he has to move back in with his mother. The good news is she still has all of his old Atari stuff. With nothing else to look forward to, his...
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Jeremy Corbin and his two new BFFs, i.e. the Mossad and CIA intelligence agents assigned to protect him, travel to Belgium to pursue their quest for answers regarding the identity and plans of the secret and highly influential organization known as The Consortium. In between dodging brutal attempts on their lives and getting to know each other better, the trio uncovers more terrifying information about the Bleiberg Project carried out in Nazi concentration...