During its run, the cartoon spawned 22 books from AMP, which were translated into a total of 17 different languages. For his work with The Far Side, Larson was awarded the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist from the National Cartoonists Society in 1991 and 1994. The group also named The Far Side Best Syndicated Panel in both 1985 and 1987.

    All Rights Reserved.The Far Side and the Larson signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc.The Far Side Gallery is an anthology of Gary Larson's The Far Side comic strips, which were printed from 1982–1984.

    The two begin to interlock as the characters make their exits from Nothing On only to find themselves making entrances into the even worse nightmare going on backstage. In the end, at the disastrous final performance, the two plots can be kept separate no longer, and coalesce into a single collective nervous breakdown.

    Garfield ranks first in his weight class, celebrates his second birthday, falls in love, and loses a stripe!

    Walter and Winston set out to rescue the inventor of the Alligatron, a computer developed from an avocado which is the world's last defense against the space-realtors.

    Your niece swears that no one expects thank-you letters anymore. Your father-in-law insists that married women have to take their husbands' names. Your guests plead that asking them to commit themselves to attending your party ruins the spontaneity. Who is right? Miss Manners, of course. With all those amateurs issuing unauthorized etiquette pronouncements, aren't you glad that there is a gold standard to consult about what has really changed and what has not? The freshly updated version of the classic bestseller includes the latest letters, essays, and illustrations, along with the laugh-out-loud wisdom of Miss Manners as she meets the new millennium of American misbehavior head-on. This wickedly witty guide rules on the challenges brought about by our ever-evolving society, once again proving that etiquette, far from being an optional extra, is the essential currency of a civilized world.

    Fairy tales have never been more revolting!

    Pop-up illustrations and verses divulge how, one by one, six members of the MacFizzet family monstrously disappear during a visit to Hickyacket Hall, leaving behind only young Neville, who expects "it was all for the best."

    Hilariously funny, with all actions included.

    Inside, you'll find handy tips on everything from Getting the Love You Deserve to Getting Your Heart Broken into Millions of Tiny Pieces. Plus so very much more. Why, we've even included a brand-spankin'-new intro by the author himself, written especially for this incredible 10th Anniversary Edition! And as if that wasn't enough, because you've waited so patiently for this special edition to come out, you get a special gold-colored anniversary seal right on the front cover, just because we care. Here's hoping you find a love as lasting and meaningful as this paperback.

    Packed with Boynton's famous hippos, bunnies, pigs, and other animals, this gift-perfect book is a whimsical commentary on the individual's relationship to chocolate, its varieties, and its sources. From the several sorts of chocolate connoisseur-including the gourmoo, who eats only milk chocolate-to the several shapes of chocolate itself (bunny, kiss, glove compartment bar), Boynton's apologia for chocolate misses nothing. Myths are debunked: chocolate is not fattening, she argues, especially when the caloric expenditure of carrying it home from the store and hiding it from company is factored in. Directions are supplied: to remove stains, lick them. Plus, how to grow chocolate at home, a foolproof method for determining if chocolate is in season (does the name of the month contain the letter A, E, or U?), and a recipe for Hippo Pot de Mousse. "Fourteen out of ten people like chocolate," says the artist. This is the only guide for people who like chocolate the way they like to breathe. Vanilla people, keep out. Selection of the Literary Guild.

    Without skipping a beat, one of America's favorite humorists, the late Lewis Grizzard, tells of the early stirrings of his wayward heart in the backseat of a '57 Chevy and the ominous murmurings that led him at age thirty-five to major surgery and the real answer to his question, "How much is this going to hurt?" In the process he discovers all the ways a heart can break. Young love. Three marriages. His father's death. And why his entire future suddenly depended on a little pig. He tells the truth -- the whole truth -- the kind that has readers laughing through their tears. United Press International said, "It makes you feel good to know a person can face the tubes, wires, knives and needles of major heart surgery and make you laugh about it -- hilarious!"

    What could please Garfield fans more than this special collection of the best of Garfield's Sunday comic excursions? Whether he's taking a bath, avoiding a vitamin, or using Jon's leg for a scratching post, he's the same lovable feline he always was.

    The Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets of the Drones Club tell all, in 21 stories as lively as a Boat Race Night party.

    He's not happy. No one seems to like or understand him; people have got him all wrong. And his relationship with God is a hostile one. Unloved and misunderstood, he's come back to Earth in search of a psychotherapist; he's prepared- if cured- to deliver the all-important Great Answer. In Jeremy Leven's wildly original comic novel, we follow the Prince of Darkness through his seven amazing therapy sessions. And we watch him grow increasingly well adjusted while his therapist, the unfortunate Dr. Kassler, descends deeper and deeper into hell.

    Pavle leaves town to think things over. Weeks later, a deformed corpse is found washed up on the banks of the Danube and is identifed to be that of Pavle. The case is judged a suicide. Three years later, Pavle, now "the deceased," unexpectedly returns. He discovers that his heirs have not only plundered his estate, but also refuse to recognize him as being "legally" alive, and they unite to keep him "dead" to maintain the status quo. This is the first English translation of a masterful and darkly comic play that will enter its rightful place as a world classic. The fluid and natural translation lends itself to theatrical production. Comically absurd, filled with existential angst, it was ahead of its time in 1937. At once vaudevillian and modernist, it is distinguished by clever plotting and stinging dialogue. The play stands as a lasting and caustic satire of human greed, strangely consonant with todays society.

    In collaboration with his late wife, Janet, he has published many enduring titles, among them Each Peach Pear Plum, Peepo!, Burglar Bill and The Jolly Postman. In addition he has written novels, collections of stories, sets of easy-readers and joke books.

    Brilliantly drawn and bitterly funny, these cartoons thoroughly demonstrate better living through plywood, reaffirm that what's good for business is good for America-even if Your Government in Action has taken to the streets-the Madonna is out of order and Yoga has been made silly. 122,000 copies in print.

    A collection of intricate humorous parodies of magazine articles and advertisements of the 1920s–50s.

    More than a decade's worth of essays by the Pulitzer Prize winning syndicated columnist capture the essence of big city American life, from neighborhood taverns to backroom politics.

    It's visionary humor in a jugular vein, presented in a handsome hardcover format. Here is where it all began.

    Bloomsbury Review listed the original English-only edition as one of their fifteen all-time favorite children’s books. Our bilingual edition has all the original stories as they have evolved in the last twenty years of Joe’s storytelling. It also has new illustrations by award-winning artist Antonio Castro. Storytellers have been telling these stories in the villages of New Mexico since the Spanish first came to the New World over four hundred years ago, but Joe always adds his own nuances for modern audiences. The tales are full of magic and fun. In the title story, for instance, a very clever woman saves her silly husband from a band of robbers. She makes the old man believe it snowed tortillas during the night! In another story, a young boy gladly gives up all of his wages for good advice. His parents think he is a fool, but the good advice leads to wealth and a royal marriage. The enchantment continues in story after story—a clever thief tricks a king for his kingdom and a prince finds his beloved in a house full of wicked step-sisters. And of course, we listen again to the ancient tale of the weeping woman, La Llorona, who still searches for her drowned children along the riverbanks.Joe Hayes is one of America’s premier storytellers. He is especially recognized for his bilingual telling of stories from the Hispanic culture of northern New Mexico. Joe lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and travels extensively throughout the United States, visiting schools and storytelling festivals.

    Off in the distance, beyond the bridge spanning the waterway, you can make out the lights and shape of a containership moving down the channel. Have you ever wondered what action you must take to keep clear of that fast-approaching ship? This book will tell you how to do so quickly.Conscientious skippers are wise to read this book and discover if a ship's radar will pick up a small boat at night. It is fascinating to learn what is taking place on the bridge or down in the engine room of one of these leviathans as it heads your way. Can it be stopped before it hits you? Learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones by reading this book written for the private boat owner/captain.

    

    If you are a Sloane Ranger, you'll recognise the form. Mummie and Daddy will have done a proper job on that years ago. But It Never Hurts To Be Sure.

    A curious culinary adventure incorporating a caveat against Lesser Literature and an instance of startling sensibility.

    

    Humorous cartoons depict the efforts of Herman to cope with the trials and tribulations of everyday life.

    But now these strong, silent types have decided to tell all. Discover what really happened during the Great Peke Crisis, what was the deep secret of the Beef Trust, & why Bramley is so bracing. You'll find the results as lively as a Boat Race Night Party. And who better to host the festivities than P.G. Wodehouse?

    A look at the wild and wacky world of the Three Stooges includes biographical sketches, interviews with the Stooges and their associates, a comprehensive filmography, and numerous illustrations

    It was hailed as "oddball," "satiric," and a work of "unbridled weirdness." Over the years, the book has become a collector's item. Finally, the book has been returned to print by Warren Murphy's Ballybunnion Books.

    Catalog Motto:"We believe in the Quality and Value of Our products as well as the determination of our Customers to outfit themselves beyond the restraints of necessity, reason or credit limit."

    

    First he falls for Raisin, then for Millie, Rosa, Lola - and then Raisin again. Can Fox handle this much love?

    Practically collectors' items, these maps are sought by paddlers all over the United States for their accuracy, relevance, and wild insider's perspective on those strange creatures who inhabit the exotic sport of whitewater paddling. Now, for the first time, Nealy has coupled his most celebrated Southeastern U.S. river maps with an anthology of cartoons, paddling homilies, and unsolicited advice. The result is a crazed but incredible book titled Whitewater Home Companion, Southeastern Rivers, Volume I. Through his distinctive drawing and wholly peculiar river-submarine terminology, Nealy successfully reveals rivers and boaters alike as never before. Contained within the covers of this book is a wealth of information and humor good for many hours of pleasure both on and off the river.

    

    Laughter deflates pretension and a good rap on the head sometimes transcends so-called logic. In the words of Zen, "Nothing is left for you but to laugh!"

    From that day onwards, Felix dreamt of hamsters on toast and hamsters in tomato sauce. But Mustapha Biscuit was ready to foil his plans.

    

    James Hacker MP - Volume 2

    

    Garner has made and photographed them in color and black and white, in use by actual people.

    This newly revised edition has tips on everything you need to know-from where to park, how to drive in the winter, how to execute the "sidesqueeze" in heavy traffic -and everything you don't necessarily need to know but will love to know anyway-from pedestrian point values (absent-minded MIT professor, 2 points; mayor, 10 points) to the best accident excuses of all time. With the latest information on the confusion caused by Boston's "Central Artery Relocation Project," The Boston Driver's Handbook is as practical as it is entertaining, making it a must-have for the tourist and the Boston native alike.

    I can come ten times an hour." Thus speaks Thea Morton, a randy, greedy, mixed-up child-woman who is part Wife of Bath, part ecstatic St Teresa, forever hoping to bump into God. For Thea, sex and religious experience are one. "You soar beyond your own confining body and hit the electric fence which runs round heaven." So when she meets Ray Murphy, an intense ascetic Franciscan friar, with red hair and green socks, she regards him as the obvious route to the Godhead. To seduce Ray would be a miracle, so she pursues him to Lourdes. There, amidst the sick and handicapped, she witnesses not a miracle but a vision, and is entrusted with a mission which changes her whole life. But when she tries to tell the world she has seen St Bernadette, she's regarded as a lunatic - or worse. Purple is the colour of passion, penance and panache, and After Purple is a highly coloured story of sex, religion and violence, combining outrageous comedy with an impassioned quest for God.

    Called "unputdownable," Freaky Friday was followed by two more novels chronicling the madcap adventures of the Andrews family. Now, for the first, all three hilarious books are together in one volume. In Freaky Friday, Annabel Andrews wakes up one morning to find that she has turned into her mother. That is, her mind is in her mother's body. What could possibly be worse than having to wear her mother's clothes, take care of the house, and wear rollers in your hair every night? Plenty! But if Annabel thought that experience was weird, she is in for a bigger surprise when her brother, Ape Face, starts predicting the future in A Billion For Boris. It's all because of The Box – a strange machine that Annabel thinks will help mankind. Boris, her boyfriend, thinks it will make him a fortune. Ape Face has other plans altogether. Summer Switch completes the circle as Ape Face trades bodies with his father. It's bad enough finding yourself in your father's body, on your way to the most important business meeting of his life, but it's worse to realize that your father is now you, and about to ruin your reputation forever. Readers will laugh out loud as they follow the Andrews family from one time-boggling adventure to another.

    Convinced he is under a magic spell, a dragon buys a body-building guide in order to transform himself into a man.

    

    Hilarious, humorous book that will leave every cat-lover rolling with laughter. Includes Naming Your Pussy, How to Feed Your Pussy, Sleeping with Your Pussy, Disciplining Your Pussy, How to Handle A Hot Pussy and lots more. Very entertaining but it helps to have a somewhat perverted sense of humor.

    At last, here is a book that explains why the term "naughty nineties" didn't do justice to the end of the Victorian Age!With sensuous illustrations and explicit pop-ups, pull-tabs and action mechanics, 'The Naughty Nineties' is guaranteed to rustle your bustle, pop your cork, and fog over your monocle!

    Hardcover with dust jacket.

    P. herbert's incisive look at the absurdities of English Law coupled with his gentle observations on human frailities make for unusual and entertaining reading.

    

    ISBN reused for The Castle on Hester Street by Linda HellerA rollercoaster ride with the best college humor of the 1970's (and a smattering from the 1980's while your back was turned)

    

    The book is guaranteed to delight anyone who has a professional or amateur interest in science.

    Double volume collecting the earlier cartoon books Another Saturday Night of Wild and Reckless Abandon and A Mouthful of Breath Mints and No One to Kiss.

    No one knows for sure where Prelutsky meets these people, but young readers everywhere are delighted that he does.

    

    

    Profusely illustrated. Both authors, one of them a professor of culture at Queens University and CUNY, are themselves men.

    

    

    

    It was a combination of luck, the author's recent award-winning at an international cartoon contest, and a lethargic bureaucratic apparatus that reacted one week too late ... by the time the book started to be confiscated the copiers were already working...