Kategoria BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels >> General

Through his comic strip Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) has left his signatures on American culture--Lucy's fake hold for the kickoff, Linus's security blanket, Charlie Brown's baseball team that never wins a game, and his everyman cry of -Good Grief -

When Schulz died February 13, 2000, the eve of publication for the last Sunday strip he would draw, the world mourned the passing of a gentle humorist and minimalist innovator, a comic strip artist who had become one of America's major pop philosophers, theologians, and psychologists in the last half of the twentieth...

• The new book by the author of The Grog Log, Intoxica and Taboo Table. Beach Bum Berry, as he is better known, is America's leading authority on tropical drinks and polynesian pop culture. In this all new book, Berry not only offers up tantilizing new drink recipes, but tells stories about some of the most famous figures of their time. The Bum applies the same dogged research to the untold stories of the people behind the drinks. Stories culled from over 100 interviews with those who actually created the mid-century Tiki scene -- people as colorful as the drinks...

Once upon a time, there was a place called the Fantasy Factory--a comic book company run by "Happy" Harry Sturdley that published the most popular comics in the world. Into that company walked a young woman of exceptional drawing talent. Her name was Alexa Moran.

This is her story....

Alexa Moran is the popular artist of The Ex-Wives, the hit comic book title published by The Fantasy Factory, America's most popular comic book company. But there's more to Alexa than just artistic abilities. When New York City is visited by a pair of twenty-foot-tall giants, Alexa's...

Fifty years ago Sir Peter Hall directed the English world premiere of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Now he has returned to this quintessential absurdist piece that has become one of the most important works of modern drama. Jonathan Croall combines an account of this theatrical journey with an informative history of the play.

• The Best of DRAW Volume Three collects more of the best tutorials and interviews from DRAW , the professional -How-To- magazine on comics and cartooning Featured here are the top artists in the comics and animation fields, demonstrating: Penciling by Mike Wieringo Illustration by Dan Brereton Design by Paul Rivoche Drawing Hands, Lighting the Figure, and Sketching by Bret Blevins Cartooning by Bill Wray Inking by Mike Manley Comics & Animation by Stephen DeStefano Digital Illustration by Celia Calle and Alberto Ruiz Caricature by Zach Trenholm, and much more...

• Scott Pilgrim's life is totally sweet. He's 23 years old, he's in a rock band, he's -between jobs, - and he's dating a cute high school girl. Nothing could possibly go wrong, unless a seriously mind-blowing, dangerously fashionable, rollerblading delivery girl named Ramona Flowers starts cruising through his dreams and sailing by him at parties. Will Scott's awesome life get turned upside-down? Will he have to face Ramona's seven evil ex-boyfriends in battle? The short answer is yes. The long answer is Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life.

• Does Scott and Ramona's burgeoning relationship have a future? Isn't Scott still supposedly dating Knives Chau? Who is Ramona's second evil ex-boyfriend, and why is he in Toronto? Who are The Clash At Demonhead, and what kind of bizarre art-punky music do they play? Who's their hot girl keyboardist, and what is Scott's relation to her? Why are they Knives Chau's new favourite band? Fights Drama Secrets revealed The answers to all these questions and more