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Patterson's Bluff volume 1
Language
English
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"American Angie Donovan has never wanted much. When you grow up getting bounced from foster home to foster home, you learn not to become attached to anything, anyone, or any place. But it only took her two days to fall in love with Australia. With her visa clock ticking, surely she can fall in love with an Australian--and get hitched--in two months. Especially if he's as hot and funny as her next-door neighbor ... Jace Walters has never wanted much--except...
Author
Series
Wild seasons volume 3
Language
English
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Description
When three college besties meet three hot guys in Vegas, anything could--and does--happen.
Lola and Oliver like to congratulate themselves on having the good sense not to consummate their drunken Las Vegas marriage. In reality, Lola's wanted Oliver since day one-- falling hard for his sexy Aussie accent and easygoing ability to take her as she comes. And Oliver can't get his mind off what he didn't do with Lola when he had the chance. He knows what...
Author
Series
Cover (Brian Michael Bendis) volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, the intelligence community figures out that the traveling band of social misfits who make comic books are an exact match to the profiles of candidates recruited for intelligence and counterintelligence gathering. A well-known comics creator is recruited by the agency to live a double life as a spy. And convention season is upon us. COVER is the blockbuster new epic from the renowned team of writer Brian Michael Bendis (Superman,...
7) Crumb
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Crumb enters a territory as spooky as it is fascinating...a portrait of an artist as misanthrope and bad-boy visionary, as joker and sex maniac, and finally as hero.
Author
Series
Ellie McDoodle volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
Ellie writes and doodles in a journal of her family's move to a new home and her struggle to make friends, which gets a lot easier as she leads a nonviolent protest about long lunch lines at school.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
WHY are so few women in the comics pages? That question becomes even more provocative as we watch four smart and witty role models -- Cathy Guisewite, Nicole Hollander, Lynda Barry and "Brenda Starr's" Dale Messick -- share their creative process. Viewers will find themselves looking at the comics, and the world, in a new way. Entertaining and informative, the cartoonists reveal fascinating relationships with their characters, who say or do exactly...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The fabulous life and times of one of our wittiest and most endearing and enduring caricaturists--in his own words and inimitable art. Alongside more than 150 of his drawings, cartoons, and caricatures--and in prose as spirited and wickedly pointed as his artwork--Edward Sorel gives us an unforgettable self-portrait: a poor Depression-era childhood in the Bronx (surrounded by loving Romanian-immigrant grandparents and a clan of mostly left-leaning...
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Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of five children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970s in a middle class suburb of Toronto. He loves watching Cher and Carol Burnett on TV, making clothes for his best friend's Barbie dolls, and helping his mum with her hair salon which she runs out of the basement of the house. In short: he is really, really gay. Which is a huge problem, because his family is part of the Christian Reformed Church, a...
Author
Series
Wicked deceptions volume 2
Language
English
Description
Lady Maggie Hawkins, a political cartoonist who draws under a male pseudonym, makes the man who betrayed her, Simon Barrett, Earl of Winchester who is a rising star in Parliament, the laughingstock of the town until she discovers the truth of what happened years ago.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee, an artist and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture at a steep personal cost. Stan Lee--born Stanley Martin Lieber in 1922--is one of the most beloved and influential entertainers to emerge from the twentieth century. He served as editor in chief of Marvel Comics for three decades and, in that time, launched more pieces of internationally recognizable intellectual property...
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From the iconic creator of the "Cathy" comic strip comes a collection of funny, warm, and wise essays in the style of Nora Ephron and Erma Bombeck, centered around the particular challenge of caring for aging parents and growing children, all while trying not to lose oneself in the process. As the creator of the "Cathy" comic strip, Cathy Guisewite found her way into the hearts of readers over 40 years ago, and has been there ever since. Her deeply...
Publisher
Amazon Studios
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
18) Crumb
Series
Criterion collection volume 533
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An intimate documentary portrait of underground artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative subject matter have made him a household name in popular American art. Zwigoff candidly and colorfully delves into the details of Crumb's incredible career, as well as his past, including his family of reclusive eccentrics, some of the most remarkable people ever seen on-screen.
19) Kung fu bunny
Publisher
Wownow Kids
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A young Cartoonist at home creates on paper a smart rebel Bunny and a smug loyal Doggy. Capturing the Bunny then becomes the Cartoonist's and the Doggy's impossible mission in life that goes on and on, chasing through books, fighting mental monsters, joining aliens, controlling giants, failure after failure. The arena is set for kung fu extravaganzas and witty, creative adventures.
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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A revised, updated and rewritten history of women cartoonists, with more color illustrations than ever before, and with some startling new discoveries (such as a Native American woman cartoonist from the 1940s who was also a Corporal in the women's army, and the revelation that a cartoonist included in all of Robbins's previous histories was a man!) In the pages of Pretty in Ink you'll find new photos and correspondence from cartoonists Ethel Hays...
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