The Moomins saw life in many forms but debuted to its biggest audience ever on the pages of world's largest newspaper the London Evening News, in 1954. The strip was syndicated in newspapers around the world with millions of readers in 40 countries.Moomin Book One is the first volume of Drawn & Quarterly publishing plan to reprint the entire strip drawn by Jansson before she handed over the reigns to her brother Lars in 1960. This is the first time the strip will be published in any form in North America and will deservedly place Jansson among the international cartooning greats of the last century.The Moomins are a tight-knit family — hippo-shaped creatures with easygoing and adventurous outlooks. Jansson's art is pared down and precise, yet able to compose beautiful portraits of ambling creatures in fields of flowers or rock-strewn beaches that recall Jansson's Nordic roots. The comic strip reached out to adults with its gentle and droll sense of humor. Whimsical but with biting undertones, Jansson's observations of everyday life, including guests who overstay their welcome, modern art, movie stars, and high society, easily caught the attention of an international audience and still resonate today.

    The Moomins try to hibernate in the fashion of their ancestors but insomnia places them smack-dab into a winter carnival with the winter-sports-loving Mr. Brisk. The fickle and eternally lovestruck Mymble and Snorkmaiden find themselves in competition over a thrilling new man. Moominmamma meets her new neighbor, the Fillyjonk, causing her to hire the depressed and secretive Misabel as her new maid. Mymble's mother arrives on the Moomin family's doorstep with her seventeen new children. Finally, a prophet arrives on the scene declaring that the happy Moomins are in fact not happy at all and need to get back to nature and be free. Moomin, of course, becomes more and more miserable the freer he gets.Jansson is revered around the world as one of the foremost children's authors of the twentieth centry for her illustrated Moomin chapter books. The Drawn & Quarterly reprint series collects, for the first time in North America, Jansson's internationally syndicated Moomin comic strip that debuted in the London Evening News in 1954.

    Mizuki's childhood experiences with yokai influenced the course of his life and oeuvre; he is now known as the forefather of yokai manga. His spring 2011 book, Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths, was featured on PRI's The World, where Marco Werman scored a coveted interview with one of the most famous visual artists working in Japan today.Within the pages of NonNonBa, Mizuki explores the legacy left him by his childhood explorations of the spirit world, explorations encouraged by his grandmother, a grumpy old woman named NonNonBa. NonNonBa is a touching work about childhood and growing up, as well as a fascinating portrayal of Japan in a moment of transition. NonNonBa was the first manga to win the Angoulême Prize for Best Album. Much like its namesake, NonNonBa is at once funny and nostalgic, firmly grounded in a sociohistorical context and floating in the world of the supernatural.

    and Doonesbury. Old favourites Katzenjammer Kids, Mutt and Jeff, Gasoline Alley, Bringing up Father, Mickey Mouse, Little Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy, L'il Abner, Barnaby, Pogo and many more fill this collection of American comic classics.

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    Of the 550 Jatakas that form the canon, many are about both animals and humans. The stories were originally compiled in the Pali language.

    

    On his Presidential campaign, his enemies seem to have him up against the wall when a provocative picture of him and Beverly surfaces!

    One day, wandering in the forest, she runs into the Sage Durvasa. Known for his short temper, Durvasa curses her to be abducted by a demon. Though Durvasa regrets cursing a child, a curse once made cannot be taken back. When Bhanumati is older, the curse comes true, and a powerful rakshasa named Nikumbha carries her off. He turns her and himself invisible so they cannot be followed. Now Krishna, Arjuna and Pradyumna must find and defeat Nikumbha and rescue Bhanumati.

    Reprint of comic strips from the early 20th century.

    An extension course in Family Circus humor!

    Gen. Half-Track is too busy eyeing his office staff, playing golf and in general delegating duty to others. Lt. Fuzz is the company apple polisher and Lt. Flap is as unflappable as his name suggests.The enlisted men are a delightful mix of very funny personalities. Killer Diller, with his romantic schemes, Rocky with his surly rebellion, Zero, the bunny-toothed rube and of course, Private Beetle Bailey leading the troops into laughter! You will learn the finer points in Sarge baiting, work dodging and AWOL without getting caught.

    Peppermint Patty, meanwhile, stands up for her Constitutional rights by defying the school's dress code, and calls "the funny-looking kid with the big nose, " Snoopy, as her counsel. And history is made when Marcie, the only person who ever appreciates Charlie Brown just for himself, meets him for the first time. These great cartoons are from the early 1970s.

    

    Rock and roll band Kiss have arrived to give advice to Howard the Duck! Although are they the real deal or demons from Winda’s dark place? And all goes terribly wrong when Howard the Duck becomes the Duck of Satan!

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    A beautiful edition with 30 color plates and over 250 b&w illustrations, most of which are full page plate, and 4 fold-out illustrations.Chapters:- Philippine Comic Work (including 32 covers and 24 splash pages and centerspreads)- Color Illustrations & Paintings- B&W Illustrations- Philippine Horror Fantasies- Sketchbook DrawingsMost of the images in this book are previously unpublished.Size: 34.5 x 27 cmIn 1959, while still a teen artist, illustrator Alex Nino’s first comic stories were published. Combining the prevalent art style of the Filipino comics master Francisco Coching, along with further influences from his other contemporaries Jess Jodloman, Ruben Yandoc, Alfredo Alcala and Nestor Redondo, he was developing his own distinctive, ever-evolving, style. Between 1959 and 1973 Nino worked almost exclusively with Filipino publications illustrating over 300 stories some of which would be made into popular Filipino movies. In 1973 he moved to the U.S where he has worked for every major comics publisher (Marvel, DC, Image, Warren Publishing). Some of the classics he worked on were 'Black Orchid', 'Captain Fear', 'Space Voyagers' the Sunday 'Tarzan' strips, "Behold the Man" (written by Michael Moorcock, adapted by writer Doug Moench), for the comic magazine, The Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction, issue #6. Another incredibly well drawn story was the controversial, "Repent Harlequin, said The Tick Tock Man", written by Harlan Ellison. Today, Alexander Niño is considered to be one of the best comics illustrators in the United States, if not the world. If he is highly rated by both editors and critics in the USA, he is higher regarded also by his legions of fans, among whom are American illustrators influenced by his unique style. Much of his artwork hangs at the Comics Hall of Fame in San Diego, California; and his name is listed in the Who's Who In Comics, a publication of the American Comics Industry. In recent years Alex has worked for Disney on such prestigious animated features as Mulan, Treasure Planet, and Atlantis, the lost empire, as a conceptual artist, although he still continues to work in the comic book field as well, recent work can be seen in such titles as: The Orc's Treasure for iBooks, The Incredible Hulk for Marvel Comics, and Frankenstein Mobster for Image comic.

    

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    The Dark Knight Detective vs. his most fearsome foe - Ra's Al Ghul.

    

    Her pudgy, long-haired cartoon alter ego speaks to every woman who has ever dreaded mom's comments when arriving without a date (again) at Thanksgiving. In "Confessions to my Mother", Cathy reveals some of her deepest, but humorous feelings about her mom.

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    George slaying the dragon.

    

    Placeholder for Steve Englehart's run on Mister Miracle, issues 19-22.

    It’s a blowout blockbuster action issue! Cap takes on Agent Axis! The Human Torch fights Hyena! And Sub-Mariner battles it out with Shark!