Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Humor

The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication

"You must read this book." -- Neil Gaiman

Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a seminal examination of comics art: its rich history, surprising technical components, and major cultural significance. Explore the secret world between the panels, through the lines, and within the hidden symbols of a powerful but misunderstood art...

After a multi-decade career of stimulating readers to appreciate and laugh at the glories and oddities of our English language, beloved language maven Richard Lederer has collected his very best and most popular pieces in Word Wizard. In this career-capping anthology the reader will find essays that enlighten, inspire, and tickle the funny bone.

From his hilarious bloopers to his hymns of praise to the English language, these essays are the brightest gems of a storied career. Word Wizard includes a new introduction, prefaces for each essay, sprightly verse, and material...

The Linguistics of Laughter examines what speakers try to achieve by producing 'laughter-talk' (the talk preceding and eliciting an episode of laughter) and, by using abundant examples from language corpora, what hearers are signalling when they produce laughter.

In particular, Alan Partington focuses on the tactical use of laughter-talk to achieve specific rhetorical, and strategic, ends: for example, to construct an identity, to make an argumentative point, to threaten someone else's face or save one's own. Although laughter and humour are by no means always related, the...

Drawing from literally thousands of his countless private journals and personal scribblings, author Sir Gentleman Brock LaBorde, Esquire, this century's self-proclaimed Master of Social Etiquette, painstakingly outlines his complex and erroneous guidelines for the impossible attainment of the ambiguous title of "gentleman."

Impolitely...

With these stirring words, Rover Khayyam, the barking bard of Philadelphia, commences his spellbinding masterpiece, a canine counterpart to the well-known "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam." In seventy-five carefully crafted stanzas, Rover creates an indelible impression of what it means to be a dog and a mortal being. Translated from the original Dalmatian and insightfully annotated by Edward FitzHound, Rover's "Rubaiyat" is destined to be an instant classic to be cherished by anyone who is a dog or loves...

'He has no skin, only blood.He wants to bleed for everybody."

If the smell of the stable repels you;
If you don't like trouble;
If conflicted attitudes toward God and the Bible bother you;
Stay away from this book.

If you prefer writers who keep their skin on;
If you're not into vengeance, parody, or satire;
If you can't laugh uproariously at others and yourself;
You're probably not reading Richler.

But if Richler is your kind of writer and you want to know more about why and how he writes;
If you're...