books about: cartoons     books:     Cartoons      The Crass Menagerie: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury Stephan Pastis Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2008 Witness the Evolution From Good to Great PEARLS BEFORE SWINE has grown exponentially in just a few years from being a small, West Coast comic strip to becoming a national powerhouse and one of the best comic strips being published. The strips are sometimes edgy, often relevant, and always funny (even at ...             Take Our Cat, Please: A Get Fuzzy Collection (Get Fuzzy (Graphic Novel)) Darby Conley Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2008 DRUMROLL for the Master Jazz virtuoso that he is, Darby Conley has everybody change places in this 6th or 7th collection. If you want to laugh out loud, these are your characters. Conley's drawing is so comically detailed that the words are hardly necessary. He also provides astounding breaks ...             Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2007 The Diary of a Wimpy Kid My 10-year old daughter says " I loved this book because it was funny. I could not put it down. I can't wait to read the next one!"             Vocabulary Cartoons: SAT Word Power Samuel A. Burchers III, Bryan Burchers New Monic Books, 2007 Fun and Easy This is a fun and easy way to learn vocabulary words. Who doesn't want to learn effortlessly? Now you can "read" cute cartoons and expand your vocabulary at the same time! I've been using this book with my students for years -- always good for a memborable laugh!             The Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories Nicholas Gurewitch Dark Horse Comics, 2007 The Best Comic Ever A pleasure to review. Wonderful illustration talent (a là Bill Watterson), with a deranged humor we've never seen before. One can read the same comic over and over again, and continue to laugh. And because Nicholas Gurewitch has announced a semi-retirement, we may have ...             Warriors: Warrior's Return (Warriors) Erin Hunter, Dan Jolley TokyoPop, 2008 Kids will really like this I ordered this book for my neice who loves the Warriors book. She read it in record time. If you like the Warrior books you like the mangas also.             The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America David Hajdu Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 Fascinating History I found this book totally fascinating. Not only does it discuss the social history surrounding comics in the 40's and 50's but you can also see some parallels between the traditional culture's reaction to comics back then and the reaction of some to video games today. ...             Bone: One Volume Edition Jeff Smith Cartoon Books, 2004 One of my favorites Jeff Smith's Bone series, I can honestly say, is one of those occasions where a comic book series grows out of itself into actual literature (and not to bring up the question of what does the "genre" literature actually consist of, I hope you understand my meaning). It ...             The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (Calvin & Hobbes) Bill Watterson Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2005 Excelent collection. Excellent collection with excellent printing quality. The paper is fantastic and the bindings are sturdy. It is truly a collector's edition, hands down.             Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi Pantheon, 2004 A good read--a lot to think about Our local community college is using this book as a common book experience for all incoming freshmen. It's a good choice for three reasons: 1) the subject matter (a young girl's experiences in revolutionary Iran) is timely and meaningful for coming-of-age college ...             Cartoon Guide to Statistics Larry Gonick, Woollcott Smith Collins, 1994 excellent. this is great as a refresher and a road map of what to study in-depth.             Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art Scott Mccloud Harper Paperbacks, 1994 A Brilliant Look at the Psychology, Physiology, and Effectiveness of Comic Strips and Books This is an important book that everyone should read. I would give it twenty stars if I could. I've long been interested in both art and comic books (I have collected them for over 50 years). While the library shelves are full of wonderful books that explain what ...             Falling Up HarperCollins, 1996 ALWAYS A JOY TO READ. To be frank, I get a kick out of Silverstein's work. It is always a bit quirky, always takes a couple of readings to really "get," and is very entertaining while being quite insightful as to human nature. This work is no different from his other works, same quality, ...             Achewood: The Great Outdoor Fight Chris Onstad Dark Horse Comics, 2008 Since 2001, cult comic favorite Achewood has built a six-figure international following. Intelligent, hilarious, and adult (but not filthy), it's the strip you'll wish you'd discovered as an underappreciated fifteen-year-old. Dark Horse presents the hardbound edition of Achewood's The Great Outdoor Fight, the story of "Three Days, Three Acres, ...             Penny Arcade Volume 5: The Case Of The Mummy's Gold (Penny Arcade) Jerry Holkins, Mike Krahulik Dark Horse, 2008 So many firsts in this book This book rocks. Not that there has been one so far I didn't love, but the instant I finished reading this one I went through and read it again. I can't believe how much gold there is in this year. Some of the earlier books were interesting in a historical sense (as ...          products you might be interested in search for books collection, comic-book, fellowship, statistics, understanding, vocabulary randomly chosen pc & video games: Equestrian Challenge (Windows)