Best of
Funny

1990

The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury


Bill Watterson - 1990
    The author won the 1986 Reuben Award as Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year and has also illustrated Something Under the Bed is Drooling, Calvin and Hobbes' Yukon Ho! and Weirdos From Another Planet.

Good Omens


Dirk Maggs - 1990
    Next Saturday in fact. Just after Any Answers on Radio 4….Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower Tadfield. The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse - War, Famine, Pollution and Death - are assembling. Witchfinder Shadwell and his assistant Newton Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, descendent of prophetess Agnes Nutter, tries to decipher her ancestor’s cryptic predictions.Atlantis is rising; fish are falling from the sky; everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan. Everything, that is, but for an unlikely angel and demon duo, who have been living on Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of the place. If they are to prevent Armageddon they’ve got to find and kill the one who will bring it about: the Antichrist himself. There’s just one small problem: someone seems to have mislaid him…Adapted, sound designed and co-directed by Dirk Maggs (Neverwhere, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) this first ever dramatisation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s novel features a large cast including Peter Serafinowicz, Mark Heap, Josie Lawrence and Paterson Joseph.

Classics of Western Literature: Bloom County, 1986-1989


Berkeley Breathed - 1990
    One of the most beloved and avidly read comic strips of all time, Bloom County not only became a part of, but helped define, the popular culture of a decade. This collection is destined to become a classic.

Three Plums In One


Janet Evanovich - 1990
    Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly (Stephanie Plum Novels)

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch


Terry Pratchett - 1990
    They don’t let you go around again until you get it right.’People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it’s only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. But what if, for once, the predictions are right, and the apocalypse really is due to arrive next Saturday, just after tea?You could spend the time left drowning your sorrows, giving away all your possessions in preparation for the rapture, or laughing it off as (hopefully) just another hoax. Or you could just try to do something about it.It’s a predicament that Aziraphale, a somewhat fussy angel, and Crowley, a fast-living demon now finds themselves in. They’ve been living amongst Earth’s mortals since The Beginning and, truth be told, have grown rather fond of the lifestyle and, in all honesty, are not actually looking forward to the coming Apocalypse.And then there’s the small matter that someone appears to have misplaced the Antichrist…

FoxTrot: The Works


Bill Amend - 1990
    FoxTrot offers welcome relief from all of this, and not a moment too soon." --Bill WattersonThis treasury edition, FoxTrot: The Works, combines two FoxTrot collections, FoxTrot and Pass the Loot. All the daily strips and color Sundays are collected in one large volume for FoxTrot fans everywhere.

Come Over, Come Over


Lynda Barry - 1990
    The new collection from cartoonist Lynda Barry, featuring the characters who have become favorites in her recent syndicated features and her popular collection Down the Street.

The Big Book of Hell


Matt Groening - 1990
    Read the whole story of "Life in Hell "RM" ," from early prehistory to late last night.

A Bit of Fry & Laurie


Stephen Fry - 1990
    A selection of sketches from the BBC2 comedy series starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.

The Barefoot Bride


Rebecca Paisley - 1990
    But a cruel ultimatum from his wicked witch of a grandmother leaves him with no choice but to seek one or lose his vast English estate forever. Saxon’s flight from high society leads him right into the arms of Chickadee McBride—a barefoot, flame-haired mountain girl with a saucy tongue, a tender heart and her very own wolf.Both shocked and secretly intrigued by the untamed beauty’s scandalous behavior, the cynical Saxon quickly decides Chickadee would make the perfect bride to bring home to grandmother. Chickadee’s Scotch-Irish temperament and irresistible shenanigans set society ablaze with gossip, but it is Saxon who finds his body burning with a passion he can no longer deny. Too late, he realizes his wild bride is in danger of making him a prisoner of desire...and capturing his heart...

If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I'm Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground


Lewis Grizzard - 1990
    Of course, along the way, he drove a train and was a preacher, but the one and only life for this self-proclaimed Promising Young Man from Georgia was that of the ink-stained, stop-the-presses, honest-to-gosh newspaperman. This is his story.From the Paperback edition.

Reginald Perrin Omnibus


David Nobbs - 1990
    This omnibus brings together the first three Reginald Perrin novels containing a lifetime's outrageous and hilarious adventures.When we first meet Reggie, he is sick to death with selling exotic ices at Sunshine Desserts. Driven to desperation by the rat race and the unpunctuality of Britain's trains, Reggie's small eccentricites escalate to the extreme, until finally he leaves the unacceptable face of capitalism behind by driving off in a stolen motorised jelly. In his pursuit of the unconventional, he devotes himself to faking his own death, opening a shop devoted to selling completely useless goods, and setting up a commune strictly for the middle-class and middle-aged.Join Reggie, who didn't get where he is today without some help from some memorable supporting characters, in one man's quest to avoid an everyday existence.

Moonlight and Magic


Rebecca Paisley - 1990
    But when she sets a “werewolf trap”, she finally snares the one thing she’s been praying for—a handsome “knight” who can protect her from the ruthless land baron who has been lusting after her property.It has not been a good day for Sterling Montoya. He had awakened next to a naked, screeching stranger, been chased across hostile Apache territory by her shotgun-toting father and had become the reluctant guardian for a newborn babe… And now he was the prisoner of a beautiful, but batty, would-be sorceress—a stunning, Shakespeare-spouting enchantress whose passionate touch promises Sterling heaven…until he realizes that whenever she’s around, all hell breaks loose.Can Sterling break the tender spell Chimera casts over his hungry heart or will he discover her love is the one enchantment too magical to resist?

Brow of the Gallowgate


Doris Davidson - 1990
    

Dr Xargle's Book Of Earth Hounds


Jeanne Willis - 1990
    Today we are going to learn about Earth Hounds. Earth Hounds have fangs at the front and a waggler at the back. To find out which is which, hold a sausage at both ends."Dr Xargle is instructing his class of small fellow aliens on the nature and habits of the earth creatures known to us as dogs.

Another Field Guide to Little-Known and Seldom-Seen Birds of North America


Ben Sill - 1990
    32 full-color illustrations.

Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear


Ken Kesey - 1990
    . . . (Kesey's) style brings each character into sharp focus".--School Library Journal. An ALA Notable Book. Full-color illustrations throughout.

Further Tales of Uncle Remus: The Misadventures of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Wolf, the Doodang, and Other Creatures


Julius Lester - 1990
    With all the distinctive humor that marked their first two Uncle Remus books, Newbery Honor author Julius Lester and Caldecott Honor artist Jerry Pinkney bring new life to thirty-three more delightful folktales.

Officer Needs Assistance Again


Don Parker - 1990
    But, as Don Parker tells us, it isn't dangerous all the time. In fact, things can get downright strange. In Officer Needs Assistance...Again, you'll explore a side of police work rarely seen on television or in the movies and you'll meet all sorts of interesting people.Like the two old drunks who engaged in a lengthy but non-fatal shootout...with single-shot shotguns. And "Bad Luck Brown," a small-time crook who must have stayed up nights thinking of new ways to get himself arrested. And the dope dealers who managed to lose six pounds of cocaine, but arranged to buy it back for only $10,000, a real bargain...except the "sellers" were undercover cops.

The Second Garfield Super Treasury


Jim Davis - 1990
    

The Devil's Dictionary and Other Works


Gahan Wilson - 1990
    This volume collects one example of each type of composition for which Bierce is most famed: a hilarious satire, a bone-chilling horror story, a sardonic piece of humor, and a macabre poem. Renowned artist Gahan Wilson, whose work finds the comic and the eerir in the most common of situations, brings the perfect, blackly humorous touch to Bierce's eccentrically unique visions.

The Irish: Photographs by Andrew M. Greeley Along with Poems, Proverbs, and Blessings


Andrew M. Greeley - 1990