Kategoria BISAC: Humor >> Form - Comic Strips & Cartoons

Winner, Mitchell A. Wilder Award for Publication Design, Texas Association of Museums

Folks across the West know a cowpoke named Jake. A good-hearted guy, he's always up to his eyebrows in debt or drought or prickly pears looking for them dad-blamed ole wild cows. In fact, he's so real a fella that it's hard to believe that Ace Reid made him up.

This book brings together 139 of Ace Reid's popular "Cowpokes" cartoons, reproduced in large format to show the artistry and attention to detail that characterized Reid's work. Grouped around themes such as work, weather,...

This penultimate work in John Lent's series of bibliographies on comic art gathers together an astounding array of citations on American cartoonists and their work. Author John Lent has used all manner of methods to gather the citations, searching library and online databases, contacting scholars and other professionals, attending conferences and festivals, and scanning hundreds of periodicals. He has gone to great length to categorize the citations in an easy-to-use, scholarly fashion, and in the process, has helped to establish the field of comic art as an important part of social science...

An anthology of cartoons from the syndicated comic strip, Bloom County encompasses highlights from the five-year span of the strip.

20 YEARS OF FABULOUS FELINE FUN

Laugh along with Garfield and the gang in this timely tribute to the world's feistiest--and funniest--feline
Inside you'll find:

, Jim Davis' Top Twenty All-Time Favorite Strips
, Foreword by Mike Peters
, Exclusive 20th Anniversary Interview with Garfield
, A Rare Glimpse Inside Jim Davis' Original Sketchbook
, A Heaping Helping of Classic Garfield Strips
, Doodles, Trivia, Anecdotes
, Embarrassing Photos

It's nothing less than a milestone for Garfield and a must-have collection for every fat cat fanatic

If laughter is what you're after, you'll love this masterpiece of mirth.
Garfield's tenth collection of hilarious Sunday comics showcases the
feisty fat cat in all his glory--and gluttony

GOOD GRIEF

Life isn t always easy for Charlie Brown. Between that pesky kite-eating tree, a complete lack of valentines in the mailbox, and his troubles on the pitcher s mound it can be downright disheartening Fortunately he has Snoopy, Linus, Peppermint Patty, and the Peanuts gang to make the big world seem a lot friendlier. Now, for the first time in book form and in full-color, It s a Big World, Charlie Brown presents a brand-new collection of your old favorites. It s just like peanuts nobody can read just one "

This latest three-in-one comic collection includes: "Garfield Hogs the Spotlight, Garfield Feeds the Kitty" and "Garfield: Life to the Fullest" for triple the fun with America's favorite fat cat.

Q: If you dropped Garfield into a bowl of punch, what would you get? A: Out of there as fast as you can Everyone's fat furry orange cynical cat is back with jokes and insults for all ages. Learn Garfield's nonverbal jabs where a look or a gesture can be much more biting than words or teeth. Find out why Garfield is like a basketball. Obtain Garfield's opinions on canines. Fun for the whole family.

Witty, urbane, sassy, and downright delightful, here are the first three original books of pure Garfield collected in one packed volume. They tell the story of the feisty feline's birth, adoption, and growth into general wonderfulness---just in case you've forgotten --and remind us why we loved him like we do.

In Garfield's Guide to Everything, the philosophizing fat cat weighs in on a whole kit and caboodle of subjects, from ecology to astrology, Shakespeare to stupidity.
Sleep -- "The best 18 hours of my day"
Coffee -- "Mother Nature's Jumper Cables"
Dogs -- "They contain 90% of the world's drool supply."
Love -- .".".is splitting the last piece of pizza."
Exercise -- "My favorite spectator sport."
Mondays -- "The armpit of days."
Golf -- "That's Scottish for 'AAARGH '."

THREE BOOKS IN ONE A TRIPLE HELPING OF GARFIELD HUMOR
MEANS THREE TIMES THE FUN

He used to be perfect, but now he's even better Garfield, the fat cat with the super sized ego, is back in the spotlight, dissing his dimwitted owner Jon - even pilfering his pants. Some cats chase mice; Garfield prefers to take legal action. When down on the farm, the city kitty puts up with-and puts down-Jon and his barnyard brother. No wonder Garfield's often in a bad mood.

But no matter what, he's always in the mood for food

The GARFIELD FAT CAT 3-PACK series collects the GARFIELD comic-strip...

Garfield Rules
He s the Lord of Lethargy, the Sultan of Snacking, and he s back with an all-new collection of comics. Loyal subjects of His Royal Roundness are hereby ordered to make merry at the fat cat s kingdom, where laughter reigns supreme "

How does Americas foremost feline do it? Theres so much lasagna to be eaten and so many dogs to kick around that he doesn't have time to worry about current events. He is the maestro of mirth and the purveyor of puns to his millions of fans.

A collection of comics presents the exploits of such characters as the mannister, two-fisted Poe, Mister Bossman, Cousin Grampa, and underpants-on-his-head man.

In the spirit of cartoonists B. Kliban, Gary Larson, Charles Addams, and Gahan Wilson, the nation's leading sports cartoonist tackles football, baseball, basketball, skiing, hunting, fishing, jogging, golf--even chess. No sport is spared from Moore's wickedly clever gags, drawn from the viewpoints of players, fans, and couch potatoes everywhere. Illustrations.

"Watership Down for the deeply sick. Very imaginative, very funny, very worrying if you're the author's mother."--Richard Curtis, screenwriter, director, producer

Rabbits. We'll never quite know why, but sometimes they decide they've just had enough of this world--and that's when they start getting inventive. This cult hit and international bestseller follows over one hundred bunnies as they find ever more outlandish ways to do themselves in. From an encounter with the business end of Darth Vader's lightsaber, to supergluing themselves to a diving submarine, to hanging around...

Like every great lasagna, Garfield was born in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant on a winter's night in 1978, while outside snow fell like gratd Parmesan cheese. He weighed five pounds, six ounces at birth--that's big for a kitten!--and right from the start showed a passion for Italian food. the restaurant owner, forced to choose between Garfield and closing his doors for lack of pasta, sold Garfield to a pet store. Garfield thought he was a goner until Jon Arbuckle walked in the door.
The rest is history.

In the grand tradition of The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons comes 96 cartoons that have appeared in The New Yorker from 1925 to the present about the profession we love to hate. Includes works by cartoonists Shanahan, Arno, Steig, Addams, and Leo Cullum. 85 illustrations.

In this wonderful miniature edition of witty and intelligent cartoons from the pages of The New Yorker, the medical profession is hilariously portrayed by some of the greatest cartoonists of our time, from Thurber and Addams to Shanahan and Chast.