"Fast-paced, full-color, and divided into short, easy-to-read chapters, this is a wonderful graphic novel for younger readers, offering a seamless transition between picture books and novels.

On the 3:23 Express to Whiska City, five unlikely friends meet and decide to form a detective agency. Ther... [more]

Throughout his 25-year career, alternative cartoonist/screenwriter Daniel Clowes has always been ahead of artistic and cultural movements. In the late 1980s his groundbreaking comic book series Eightball defined indie culture with wit, venom, and even a little sympathy. With each successive graphic ... [more]

The Art of Harvey Kurtzman is the first and only authorized celebration of this ""Master of American Comics."" This definitive book includes hundreds of never-before-seen illustrations, paintings, pencil sketches, newly discovered lost E.C. Comics layouts, color compositions, illustrated corresponde... [more]

"In 1981 three Mexican-American brothers self-published their first comic book, Love and Rockets, and ""changed American cartooning forever"" according to Publishers Weekly. Over twenty-five years later it is still being published to critical and commercial success.

Jaime Hernandez's moving storie... [more]

"Osamu Tezuka has often been called “the god of manga” and “the Walt Disney of Japan,” but he was far more than that. Tezuka was Walt Disney, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Tim Burton, and Carl Sagan all rolled into one incredibly prolific creator, changing the face of Japanese culture forever. Best known fo... [more]

But I Really Wanted to Be an Anthropologist... is an introduction to the world of Margaux, a charming 30-something living in Paris, navigating the world as an illustrator. This diary documents her day-to-day existence with her boyfriend and young daughter, drinking and smoking, and the difficulties ... [more]

Brian Walker’s two comprehensive guides to American comics, The Comics Before 1945 and The Comics Since 1945, are combined here in one beautifully designed omnibus edition, The Comics: The Complete Collection. Cartoon authority Brian Walker has amassed over a century of strips—more than 1,300 images... [more]

"Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses is an outrageously rollicking account of the life and career of Roger Corman, one of the most prolific and successful independent producers, directors, and writers of all time. As told by Corman himself and graduates of 'The Corman Film School... [more]

It's a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. The hazards of growing up before you're ready are uniquely revealed through words and drawings as Greg records them i... [more]

Of course, Greg is easily able to sidestep his father's efforts to change him. But when Greg's dad threatens to send him to military academy, Greg realizes he has to shape up...or get shipped out."">"Let's face it: Greg Heffley will never change his wimpy ways. Somebody just needs to explain that to... [more]

"It's a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. The hazards of growing up before you're ready are uniquely revealed through words and drawings as Greg records them ... [more]

The sixth book in the phenomenal bestselling series! An extreme snowstorm traps the Heffleys inside a cabin. Stuck with his family, unable to go outside, Greg finds himself becoming claustrophobic. Annoyed and pestered by his parents, how will Greg survive the blizzard?... [more]

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"The first four books in the bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series are available together for the first time in a collectible boxed set. Included are Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Rodrick Rules, The Last Straw, and Dog Days, in a specially designed package that features six pages from Rowley Jefferson's j... [more]

"Packed with original art and all-new material, this DO-IT-YOURSELF BOOK features ruled pages and empty word balloons so you can create your own stories and comics, list your favorites and least faves, and keep your own daily journal. But whatever you do, make sure you put this book someplace safe a... [more]

"Woody Allen's classic neuroses, humorous life philosophy, and complex relationships were featured in the daily comic strip Inside Woody Allen, syndicated King Features from 1976 to 1984, illustrated by Stuart Hample. Dread & Superficiality: Woody Allen as Comic Strip collects 220 of the best strips... [more]

"A lively interview between Ashley Bickerton and Hans Ulrich Obrist is remodeled here as a graphic novel set in a red light district of an anonymous Eastern metropolis. They converse in bars and move through the colorful streets and strip clubs of the night as they discuss Bickerton's early ambition... [more]

Since the 1940s, federal and state government agencies have published comics to disseminate public information. Comics legends Will Eisner and Milton Caniff produced comics for the army. Walt Kelly's Pogo told parents how much TV their kids should watch, Bert the Turtle showed them how to survive a ... [more]

"Ross MacDonald, the award-winning illustrator, and James Victore, the celebrated graphic designer, have gotten together to create a parody featuring the classic kids' book characters Dick and Jane. This time around, though, our straitlaced protagonists are venturing into some rather dark, twisted, ... [more]

At a Poconos summer camp in 1939, a skinny teenager sporting a cartoon-covered jacket caught the eye of a comics professional who offered him a job on the spot.

Jerry Robinson was the kid, Batman's co-creator was the pro…and history was in their handshake,

Robinson is one of those living legends... [more]

"The first and only illustrated biography of ""The Man in Black"", Johnny Cash, the most famous country singer of all time

Cash was a 17-time Grammy winner who sold more than 90 million albums in his lifetime and became an icon of American music in the 20th century. Graphic novelist Reinhard Kleis... [more]

"Adam Koford's The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Sell Out is a hilarious and charming mash-up of LOLcats (those ubiquitous online photos of cats, captioned humorously and ungrammatically) with the stylings of early 20th-century American comics, such as Walt Kelly's Pogo and George Herriman's Krazy Kat. These ... [more]

You only think you know this story. We all have that one friend we grew up with--the strange kid, the class freak, the one whose antics amused and entertained, maybe even alarmed us--the kid who sticks in our heads even with the passing of the years. That friend is invariably left behind when we be... [more]

"Michael Buckley is at his comic best in this madcap new series sure to appeal to kids looking for a quick, exciting read.

Combining all the excitement of international espionage and all the awkwardness of elementary school, NERDS, featuring a group of unpopular students who run a spy network from... [more]

"THE BACKGROUND
The last time we met the NERDS, a team of superspies operating out of their school basement, they were using their high-tech abilities to stop an evil genius from destroying the world.

THE MUG SHOTS
Now they're up against one of their own--a former teammate determined to dest... [more]