Books, Comics & Graphic Novels, Cartooning

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Charles M. Schulz
The Complete Peanuts 1967-1970 Box Set
by Fantagraphics Books (Hardcover)

With intros by John Waters and Mo Willems! The Complete Peanuts 1967-1968 is a particularly Snoopy-heavy collection. In addition to seeing the beagle adopt multiple personas, this volume also sees the appearance of what would be Schulz's most controversial major character: Franklin. In Charles Schulz's The Complete Peanuts 1969-1970, Woodstock makes his first appearance, Snoopy is left in the Van Pelt family's care as the Browns vacation... and the Little Red-Haired Girl moves away.

DK Publishing
The DC Comics Encyclopedia
by DK ADULT (Hardcover)

As a unique, one-volume encyclopedia of more than 1,000 characters created by DC Comics, this is the book that all comic book fans have been waiting for! Featuring some of DC's most creative artists and heroes and villains from the world famous to lesser known one-offs, this thrilling, one-of-a-kind guide has comic book history exploding off every page.

Alison Bechdel
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Hardcover)

From the author of Fun Home -- the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and others. For twenty-five years Bechdel's path-breaking Dykes to Watch Out For strip has been collected in award-winning volumes (with a quarter of a million copies in print), syndicated in fifty alternative newspapers, and translated into many languages. Now, at last, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For gathers a "rich, funny, deep and impossible to put down" (Publishers Weekly) selection from all eleven Dykes volumes. Here too are sixty of the newest strips, never before published in book form. Settle in to this wittily illustrated soap opera (Bechdel calls it "half op-ed column and half endless serialized Victorian novel") of the lives, loves, and politics of a cast of characters, most of them lesbian, living in a midsize American city that may or may not be Minneapolis. Her brilliantly imagined countercultural band of friends -- ...

David Hajdu
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
by Picador (Paperback) (Release Date: 2009-02-03)

Art Spiegelman
Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History
by Pantheon Books (Hardcover)

Scott Mccloud
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
by Harper Paperbacks (Paperback) (Release Date: 1994-04-27)

Matt Groening
The Simpsons 2003 Fun Calendar
by HarperEntertainment (Calendar) (Release Date: 2002-07-30)

Art Spiegelman
Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began
by Pantheon (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1991-11-05)

Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph"* and a "brutally moving work of art,"** the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive. As the New York Times Book Review commented," [it is] a remarkable feat of documentary detail and novelistic vividness...an unfolding literary event."This long-awaited sequel, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Maus ties together two powerful ...

How to Draw 101 Animals (How to Draw 101)
by Top That Publishing PLC (Paperback)

Jim Davis
Garfield Minus Garfield
by Ballantine Books (Paperback) (Release Date: 2008-10-28)

It’s Garfield–as you’ve never seen him!Come savor the existential adventures of Jon Arbuckle in Garfield Minus Garfield. Based on the phenomenon ignited by Dan Walsh’s hilarious and wildly popular webcomic (beloved by The New York Times and The Washington Post, and hailed as “inspired” by Garfield creator Jim Davis), Garfield Minus Garfield takes everyone’s favorite fat cat out of the picture, leaving us with only the lonely ennui of Jon as he’s left to voice thoughts about his own existence into an empty void. With a Foreword by Dan Walsh, creator of www.garfieldminusgarfield.net

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