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Life is tough and then you graduate: The second Piled Higher and Deeper Comic Strip Collection

Jorge Cham

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Total reviews: 23 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Great book ... but only people who have been in grad school will get the jokes 5 out of 5 stars.
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If you're a grad student you will find all kinds of situations in this book that mirror your life. What better than to be able to laugh at them?

Even if you're not a grad student 5 out of 5 stars.
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It's fantastic to see several situations of your grad student life in this comic. Jorge Cham continue to express the voice of thousands master and phd students who claim for freedom and wonder if there are something more in life than studies, papers, conferences, computers and free food.

About the text you can find more of the usual: advisors exploiting students (i.e. professor Smith and the nameless student), life in the laboratory, Tajel and her protests, Cecilia with her chocolates, I, Grad Student and The Thesis Zone (phd parodies of I, Robot and the The Twilight Zone), and a lot of things about Mike including his life in procastination, free food, a way to sleep in the lab, and finally his Thesis Defense.

Editorial Review:

This book is the second collection of the popular comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper, which chronicles life (or the lack thereof) in grad school. Includes the popular strip series "Procrastin-X", "Grad school makes you dumber", "The Thesis Zone" and Mike Slackenerny's improbable thesis defense. Bonus features include never-before published strips, author notes and a foreword by Karl Marx. Whether you managed to escape grad school, are struggling through it, or are thinking of applying to it, Piled Higher and Deeper will have you lauging and crying at the same time. Piled Higher and Deeper is published online at www.phdcomics.com, where it receives over 1.8 million page views a month from grad students all over the world.

One Hundred Demons

Lynda Barry

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Total reviews: 21 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

One Hundred Demons collects a series of memoiristic strips that appeared in Salon’s popular “Mothers Who Think” section. Here are 20 stories told in Lynda Barry’s distinctive cartoon-narrative style that delve into the funk and sweetness of love, family, adolescence, race and the 'hood, identity — all the forces that made her the "wreck" she is today. Barry distinguishes these stories with her pitch-perfect sense of the way young people talk and think and her ability to casually render childhood’s cruelties in luminous, unsparing detail. From her nattering and intolerant/loving Filipina grandmother to the ex-boyfriend from hell who had lice, One Hundred Demons paints a memorable picture of a gifted girl whose life is intersected by a cast of crazies. Hailed for its shimmering watercolor images and called by Time magazine “a work of art as well as literature,” this collection makes an important addition to the genre Barry has sardonically christened “autobiofictionalography.”

Cartoon Cool: How to Draw New Retro-Style Characters

Christopher Hart

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Total reviews: 19 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Terrible book. Leave it be. 1 out of 5 stars.
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Like all of Chris Hart's books, Cartoon Cool is filled with hack drawings and bad drawing advice.
If you really want to draw in the Retro style, here's a tip: Go look at the cartoons and the artists that inspired the retro style in the first place. Ed Benedict, Mary Blair, M. Sasek, 50's era Hank Ketcham, Gene Dietch.
These are the people that Craig McKracken and Genndy Tartokovsky and Lynne Naylor are inspired by.
Google the names. You'll have a wealth of material at your finger tips.
Here's another tip: REALLY learn how to draw things the way they really look.
You can't abstract something unless you know what it looks like.

Editorial Review:

There is an entirely new look in comics and animation today, characterized by ultra-cartoon-y, retro, and highly stylised drawing style. This is the new face of cartooning as seen in such popular TV shows as Sponge-Bob Squarepants, Dexter's Lab, Kim Possible, and The Fairly Odd Parents. Millions of fans of these popular TV shows watch them avidly, often solely for their zingy, stylised look and hip visual jokes. Now there's a drawing book just right for everyone who admires that quirky style, CARTOON COOL. Top-selling author Christopher Hart shows beginning cartoonists, retro fans, and all other hipsters how to get that almost-1950s look in their drawings. His trademark step-by-step drawings and crystal-clear text are sure to make Saturday mornings more creative!

Big Brilliant Book of Bart Simpson (Simpsons Comic Compilations)

Matt Groening

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And When She Opened the Closet, All the Clothes Were Polyest: A FoxTrot Collection (Foxtrot Collection)

Bill Amend

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Love Bill Amend! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I own all of the Foxtrot books, and now have three of my five children fighting with me over them. We all love Jason, especially. The daily life situations remind us a lot of ours. My husband could be Roger, constantly struggling to drag the kids outdoors, while they hide with their video games. Another great book!

Editorial Review:

Bill Amend's FoxTrot, syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate, humorously depicts suburban living through the cavortings of the Fox family. Kids Peter, Paige, and Jason, along with parents Roger and Andy, suffer through the same fads, fixations, and familial land mines that readers know so well.

As the 25th FoxTrot comic collection, And When She Opened the Closet, All the Clothes Were Polyester! features strips published from February 2006 through December 2006—including Amend's very last daily strip. Jason continues to channel his unique brand of geekiness—primarily at Paige's expense, while Peter continues to lord over them both. Parents Roger and Andy try to keep up with their children's antics, usually to no avail.

Bill Amend was nominated for the National Cartoonists Society's prestigious Reuben Award in 2006 and 2007.

Author's web site: www.foxtrot.com/

The Complete Peanuts 1965-1966

Charles M. Schulz

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Total reviews: 18 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

The strip that launched a renaissance continues.

We are now in the mid-1960s, one of Schulz's peak periods of creativity (and one third of the way through the strip's life!). Snoopy has become the strip's dominant personality, and this volume marks two milestones for the character: the first of many "dogfights" with the nefarious Red Baron, and the launch of his writing career ("It was a dark and stormy night...").

Two new characters—the first two from outside the strip's regular little neighborhood—make their bows. Roy (who befriends Charlie Brown and then Linus at summer camp) won't have a lasting impact, but upon his return from camp he regales a friend of his with tales of the strange kids he met, and she has to go check them out for herself. Her name? Peppermint Patty.

The Complete Peanuts 1965-66 features a new introduction by Hal Hartley, writer/director of acclaimed independent films Trust, Henry Fool, Kimono, Simple Men, The Unbelievable Truth, and Fay Grim.

Peanuts is the most successful comic strip in the history of the medium. A United Media poll in 2002 found Peanuts to be the second most recognizable cartoon property in the world, recognized by 94 percent of the total U.S. consumer market and a close second only to Mickey Mouse (96 percent).

Try Rebooting Yourself: A Dilbert Collection (Dilbert Book Collections Graphi)

Scott Adams

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Maybe, just maybe, the reason Scott Adams is able to so completely and utterly skewer the absurdities of the modern workplace is that deep down he really enjoyed his many years as a cubicle dweller. Perhaps his comic strip Dilbert is nothing more than a cleverly disguised 17-year-long love letter to corporate America.

And maybe, just maybe, monkeys will fly out of Donald Trump's butt.

In Try Rebooting Yourself, AMP's 28th Dilbert collection, the world's most dysfunctional office family is back and doing what it does best. Wally adroitly steers clear of new assignments¿and perfects his "work grimace." The Pointy-Haired Boss (PHB) thinks of new ways to demoralize and disenfranchise his employees. (As part of a new strategy to make the pension plan solvent, he reminds employees "Smoking is cool.") Dogbert continues his lucrative consulting business. And Dilbert, alas, he soldiers and smolders on, searching for intelligent life in the corporate universe¿and maybe, just maybe, a little action. (Fat chance.)

This time out, the gang is joined by a host of odd (but strangely familiar) guest characters including the clueless Hammerhead Bob, and Petricia, the PHB's fawning but ferocious sycophant. All office workers may now nod knowingly.

Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder

Walt Kelly

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The Complete Pogo, at last!

Walt Kelly started his career at age 13 in Connecticut as a cartoonist and reporter for the Bridgeport Post. In 1935, he moved to Los Angeles and joined the Walt Disney Studio, where he worked on classic animated films, including Pinocchio, Dumbo, and Fantasia. Rather than take sides in a bitter labor strike, he moved back east in 1941 and began drawing comic books.

It was during this time that Kelly created Pogo Possum. The character first appeared in Animal Comics as a secondary player in the "Albert the Alligator" feature. It didn't take long until "Pogo" became the comic's leading character. After the WWII, Kelly became artistic director at the New York Star, where he turned Pogo into a daily strip. By late 1949, Pogo appeared in hundreds of newspapers. Until his death in 1973, Kelly produced a feature that has become widely cherished among casual readers and aficionados alike.

Kelly blended nonsense language, poetry, and political and social satire to make Pogo an essential contribution to American "intellectual" comics. As the strip progressed, it became a hilarious platform for Kelly's scathing political views in which he skewered national boogeymen like J.Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, George Wallace, and Richard Nixon.

Walt Kelly started Pogo when newspaper strips shied away from politics—Pogo was ahead of its time and ahead of later strips (such as Doonesbury and The Boondocks) that tackled political issues. Our first volume reprints approximately the first two years of Pogo—Sundays and dailies. The earliest strips embrace a kind of broad farce that reflected Kelly's interest in vaudeville, slapstick humor, and the kind of mistaken identity plotlines that were a staple of screwball comedies of the '30s and '40s. But by the second year of the strip—halfway through our first volume—Kelly dips his toes gently into the satirical waters that Pogo would become famous for in a sequence in which Howland Owl researches atomic power. By June of 1950, Kelly is tackling the red-baiting junior Senator from Wisconsin, Joe McCarthy, in a mock trial of Albert, who is accused of devouring a puppy who just arrived in the Okefenokee Swamp—and Kelly is on his way to becoming the first great satirical political cartoonist of the second half of the 20th century. This first volume also introduces such enduring supporting characters as Porkypine, Churchy LaFemme, Houn'dog, Seminole Sam, Mr. Truant Officer, and many others. And for Christmas, 1949, Kelly started his tradition of regaling his readers with his infamously and gloriously mangled Christmas carols.

Lio: Happiness Is a Squishy Cephalopod

Mark Tatulli

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

SSH's Review #2 5 out of 5 stars.
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A comic not for everyone, but enormously funny to anyone who enjoyed the ADDAMS FAMILY or the MUNSTERS.

Can't wait for the next book! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I thought I'd go into withdrawal permanently after Calvin and Hobbes stopped running. Thank goodness for Lio and also Brewster Rockit (also well worth checking out). Lio makes the Addams Family look like a well adjusted family. A bargain at twice the price!

Editorial Review:

Drawn in the age-old style of pantomime strips, LIÓ offers a decidedly new and edgy twist to the wordless comic format. That's right, LIÓ is so crafty it doesn't need word balloons, dialogue boxes, or clever captions. Mark Tatulli's cartoon also employs a unique drawing style influenced by cartooning greats Gahan Wilson, Charles Addams, and 19th-century satirist A. J. Volck.

·In describing his strip, Tatulli explains he was eager "to bring something truly different to the comics pages . . . something to appeal to all ages, drawn in pictures only. To tell a story without text, while updating the pantomime concept with a modern audience in mind."

The result is a mind-bendingly humorous and astute journey into the darkly detailed world of young Lió—where a spit wad can put a school bus out of commission faster than a spider can hamper the efforts of the U.S. Postal Service.

Comic Artist's Photo Reference: Men and Boys (Comic Artists Photo Reference)

Buddy Scalera

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A Super Book for Super Hero Artists 5 out of 5 stars.
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I am one of the models who worked on the book, and I can't tell you how excited I am with the final product. First it is awesome to see the photo of me on the cover draw masterfully into an action hero. I have several friends who are artists, and they tell me this fills a need where other photo reference books fall short. The action poses, and expressions are just what comic book artists need, for the cross between realism and fantasy that is the art if the comic. Mr. Scalera not only supplies a wide range of high quality photos, but also demonstrates how to use and combine them for professional quality comic book artwork. A great tool for pros and aspiring artists alike!

Editorial Review:

Traditional anatomy books aren't enough. Comic artists need a reference that covers the kinds of dynamic poses and lighting effects that make comics extraordinary. The third book/CD-ROM set in the best-selling Comic Artist's Photo Reference series, Men & Boys features over 1,000 photos of males of varying ages, ethnicities and body types in poses designed specifically for the comic or fantasy artist. Artists will also learn from the pros in four step-by-step lessons based on photos from the book. The companion CD-ROM includes photos as well as short videos and bonus material.