The essays were written during a difficult time in Twain's life; he was deep in debt and had lost his wife and one of his daughters. The book consists of a series of short stories, many of which deal with God and Christianity. Twain penned a series of letters from the point-of-view of a dejected angel on Earth. This title story consists of letters written by the archangel Satan to archangels, Gabriel and Michael, about his observations on the curious proceedings of earthly life and the nature of man's religions. By analyzing the idea of heaven and God that is widely accepted by those who believe in both, Twain is able to take the silliness that is present and study it with the common sense that is absent. Not so much an attack as much as a cold dissection. Other short stories in the book include a bedtime story about a family of cats Twain wrote for his daughters, and an essay explaining why an anaconda is morally superior to Man. Twain's writings in Letters From the Earth find him at perhaps his most quizzical and questioning state ever.

    Schulz remains untouched. On every spread there’s a tiny tidbit of wisdom from one of the gang, along with one of Schulz’s irresistible drawings.  It’s a trip down memory lane that every Peanuts fan will cherish.

    Each year there are hundreds of stagestruck kids arrive in New York determined to crash the theatre, firmly convinced they're destined to be famous Broadway stars or playwrights.

    On the way to nowhere in particular they pass a number of odd characters and observe a series of baffling phenomena, from a house burning down in a field to a palatial mansion perched precariously on a bluff.At once deeply vexing and utterly hilarious, darkly mysterious and amusingly absurd, The Willowdale Handcar is vintage Edward Gorey.

    This reissue of his classic book of pony cartoons gives a reminder of the late master's peculiar genius.

    Sempe has created a world above and beyond specific cultural and political references, a world all of his own, one populated by long-faced, aquiline-nosed depressives - psychoanalysts, housewives, and concert pianists.

    The foxhole history of the American soldier in World War II, by two-time Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin.

    With over 1 million copies sold, this humorous collection of small-town Americana has become a modern-day classic, celebrating the honesty and charm of a child's world at the turn of the century. On Moses: "I got so tired of Moses walking forty years and never getting to where he was going. I sure would have bought myself a mule." On the library: "In the library there are signs. Silence. Mrs. Simons [the librarian] must not know they are there. She talks the whole long day." These naively trouncing concepts of school, church etiquette, and everlasting life are both a child's mischievous collection of impressions and an adult's hilarious comeuppance.

    Not so for Doreen and her husband Charles, who decide to take on a baby donkey to keep the nettles under control in the orchard. When Annabel clip-clops into their lives they realize that, from the ear-splitting nocturnal howling to the numerous escape attempts, living with a donkey won't be plain sailing. Annabel eats everything apart from the nettles, but eventually becomes a much-loved family member and particularly close to Solomon, the Siamese cat, who sleeps in her bed. Further dramas ensue when Henry, the jennet, is introduced as a companion to Annabel and love blossoms.

    

    originally published with the title: Life with Mother Superior

    

    Kurtzman, creator of Mad Magazine and godfather of underground comix, teamed with longtime E.C. Comics collaborator Will Elder (and sometimes Frank Frazetta, Russ Heath, and Jack Davis ) to create a Playboy icon second only to the bunny and a risque comics icon second to none. Each volume showcases over 200 pages of stunningly rendered stories from the sexy strip's 25-year run. Trend setting in its use of color, irreverent in its satirical look at the changing face of America, and a masterpiece of technique, this definitive collection of one of world's most controversial comic strips is long overdue. This first volume takes us through the swinging Sixties with the Beatles, Civil Rights, and the beginning of the Sexual Revolution. Also included, a detailed behind-the-scenes look at the strip's creative process, featuring never-before-seen art and preliminary drawings

    Luckily the air corps is called in and rescues the blanket from being drowned at sea. Little sister Sally decides she's not the going-to-school type and tries to get a deferment from kindergarten. And Frieda torments everyone by talking about her naturally curly hair. This wonderful collection of strips is from 1962.

    I wrote a book, ''Anybody Who Owns His Own Home Deserves It,'' that was the retelling of a lot of the monologues that I started doing on the Sullivan show, like I lived on the Baldwin-Rockville Centre line. The line went right through my house. I had a Rockville Centre address, but my children had to go to the Baldwin schools. They tried to explain to me that if my kids would sleep in the garage, they could go to the Rockville Centre schools.

    

    Four paperback books in a slipcase.

    Schulz, which ran from 10/2/50 to 2/13/00 (a day after his death), continuing in reruns afterward. It is one of the most popular & influential in the medium's history, with 17,897 strips published, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being," according to Prof. Robert Thompson of Syracuse Univ. At its peak, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 papers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, translated into 21 languages. It helped cement four-panel gag strips as the standard in the USA, & together with its merchandise earned him over a billion. Reprints remain syndicated & run in many newspapers.

    When you enter the forest of Drendon, and your girlfriend turns into a woodnymph, and her brother becomes a fawn, and the dreadful parrot-beaked, cannibalistic Kwistian birds come to feast, don't waste precious time asking what's going on--it's magic, you dope!

    

    

    An hilarious little horror story.

    And this collection contains many of the 'Family' cartoons, originally printed in the New Yorker magazine. Most of the cartoons hinge on a quirkiness bordering on the surreal — often with some sort of deformity as the pivot point — but not all of them are macabre. An artist sculpting an angel out of stone calls out the window “Same time next Monday, then, Mrs Grant?” Some are subtle, such as a row of sheets hanging outside a house with eye-holes cut out of them, and some are plain racist (less said about those, the better). Some are of, shall we say, limited humour, such as a nurse poking her head out of a delivery room door to announce “It's a baby!”The strength is definitely the Addams Family cartoons — a whole cinema full of people crying and Uncle Fester laughing, Pugsley and Wednesday returning from summer camp in pet travellers, and Morticia Addams' parting advice to the babysitter “…keep your back to the walls at all times.”