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Comics have gone from "scourge of the classroom" to legitimate teaching tools, and the Common Core State Standards for scholastic achievement now explicitly recommend their use in the classroom.
Reading With Pictures: Comics That Make Kids Smarter unites the finest creative talents in the comics industry with the nation's leading experts in visual literacy to create a game-changing tool for the classroom and beyond. This full-color volume features...
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Hexes volume 1
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Hex: a magic spell; a curse.
Sometimes, things don’t work out. Sometimes, you wonder what exactly it is you’ve done to wind up in the trouble you’re in. Sometimes, it feels like you’re cursed.
Taking place in the same universe (The Hexiverse) there diverse stories will unnerve and disorientate you. They are tales that happen to the everyday people, your neighbours or your family, perhaps even your best friend, and you’d never know it was...
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"Métal Hurlant" magazine was created in Paris in 1974 by Moebius, Druillet and Dionnet, the founding fathers of Les Humanoïdes Associés. This movement soon revolutionized the medium and inspired countless writers, artists and filmmakers the world over. Versions in various languages flourished everywhere, including in the States with "Heavy Metal." The French version was eventually shut down in 1987. But in 2002, Humanoids relaunched a limited publication...
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Battlecats volume 1
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The first in a series of anthology stories designed to shed light on the rich history of the world of Battlecats. Each issue is crafted by a different creative team and will enhance the already lush characterization of some of the most important felines in the millennia since Valderia's inception.
65) Mome Vol. 5
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Mome volume 5
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The fifth volume of Mome includes the following: Tim Hensley (Weird Tales of the Ramones) returns for the first time since the third volume with the first-installment of his first book-length story, titled "Gropius," which tells the story of teen millionaire Wally Gropius, who will be disinherited unless he marries the saddest girl on earth; Martin Cendreda depicts a mostly wordless, surreal adventure starring three peculiar musicians, and what happens...
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From the mind of John Carpenter, the man who brought you the cult classic horror film Halloween, and the heart of writer, editor, producer Sandy King comes a bakers dozen of twisted tales of terror, tricks, and treats. In volume 6 of the award-winning graphic novel series, they bring together another stellar ensemble of storytellers from the worlds of movies, novels, and comics.
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Fantagraphics celebrates The Flapper Queens, a gorgeous collection of full-color comic strips. In addition to featuring the more well-known cartoonists of the era, such as Ethel Hays, Nell Brinkley, and Virginia Huget, Eisner award-winning Trina Robbins introduces you to Eleanor Schorer, who started her career in the teens as a flowery art nouveau Nell Brinkley imitator but, by the '20s, was drawing bold and outrageous art deco illustrations; Edith...
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Now The New Comics Anthology volume 3
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The third issue of Now showcases a cover by acclaimed cartoonist Al Columbia (Pim & Francie) as well as more than 100 pages of all new short comics fiction by a host of established and up-and-coming talent from around the globe, including: Anna Haifisch (Germany), Roman Muradov (San Francisco), Jesse Reklaw (Portland), Lucas Varela (France), Marcello Quintanhila (Brazil), Anne Simon (France), Roberta Scomparsa (Italy), and J.C. Menu (France). Plus,...
69) Mome Vol. 9
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Mome volume 9
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As a special feature in this volume, Mome proudly features a 45-page Jim Woodring graphic novella, "The Lute String." This story, previously published only in Japan, features Woodring's signature characters-Frank, Pupshaw, and Pushpaw-in a universe-bending saga that finds the trio in a very unexpected world of flying, shrieking demons and bulbous-faced monsters. Mome is an accessible, reasonably priced quarterly running approximately 120 pages per...
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Hexes volume 5
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Ava daydreams, but is the girl made of letters and words who followed her home from school a figment of her imagination, or something far more real? And exactly how much does her mother know about it?
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Some of the world's greatest creators have each written and drawn an original story that explores the key moment when a clear-cut split occurs, a mutation, a personal revolt or a large-scale revolution that tips us from one world into another, from one life to an entirely new one: The Tipping Point.
From slice-of-life tales and science fiction adventures, to amusing asides and fantastical fables, witness these major (and minor) changes and evolution...
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Join award-winning cartoonist Stephan Pastis in his comical, careening journey to enlightenment, featuring 18 months of daily comic strips from 2020-2021 along with an introduction, reflections, and strip-by-strip commentary by the author.
Stephan Pastis is no ordinary cartoonist. In his two decades of writing and illustrating the blockbuster daily comic strip Pearls Before Swine, the award-winning humorist has traveled the globe, co-written a film...
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Flinch volume 1
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The legendary Vertigo horror anthology that will get under your skin-one slice at a time. It's the little things in life that matter most: the tiny leak in the fuel line; the faint smell of decay that won't wash off; the way a knife blade catches the light. These are the things that stick with us, no matter how much we want to forget-the things that make us flinch. No one is more familiar with this unnerving territory than the twisted souls whose...
74) MOME Vol. 1
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Mome volume 1
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Every "period" in modern comics history has had its anthology that tapped into the zeitgeist and foreshadowed a new "generation" of cartoonists (Zap in the '60s; Arcade in the '70s; RAW and Weirdo in the '80s, etc.). For the new millennium, there is MOME. This accessible, reasonably priced quarterly book will run approximately 136 pages per volume and spotlight a regular cast of a dozen of today's most exciting cartoonists. Designed by acclaimed designer...
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"Métal Hurlant" magazine was created in Paris in 1974 by Moebius, Druillet and Dionnet, the founding fathers of Les Humanoïdes Associés. This movement soon revolutionized the medium and inspired countless writers, artists and filmmakers the world over. Versions in various languages flourished everywhere, including in the States with "Heavy Metal." The French version was eventually shut down in 1987. But in 2002, Humanoids relaunched a limited publication...
76) Mome Vol. 3
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Mome volume 3
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This third issue of MOME will include the following: John Pham's "221 Sycamore Street," presented in a unique three-color process and design that recalls the classic strip Gasoline Alley; Paul Hornschemeier's "Life with Mr. Dangerous," a full-color narrative about a young woman who struggles to define a life outside of the example her mother provides, spending far too much time watching a cartoon called "Mr. Dangerous"; and David Heatley (Deadpan,...
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From the mind of John Carpenter, the man who brought you the classic horror film Halloween, and the heart of writer, editor, producer Sandy King, comes a dozen new twisted tales of terror, tricks, and treats. In volume 7 of the award-winning graphic novel series, Carpenter and King bring together the best storytellers from comics, novels, and film for another spine-tingling collection of stories.
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Hexes volume 2
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Ben has suffered from nightmares all of is life, filled with strange corridors, and even stranger monsters within, able to take corporeal form by stealing a lock of his hair.
He's spent his whole life tracking them down, and now there's only one left;
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"Métal Hurlant" magazine was created in Paris in 1974 by Moebius, Druillet and Dionnet, the founding fathers of Les Humanoïdes Associés. This movement soon revolutionized the medium and inspired countless writers, artists and filmmakers the world over. Versions in various languages flourished everywhere, including in the States with "Heavy Metal." The French version was eventually shut down in 1987. But in 2002, Humanoids relaunched a limited publication...
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The most critically acclaimed comic of the last five years introduces its second helping of deluxed-ness: THE SUNDAE EDITION, VOL. 2!
Collecting another 12 issues (plus some more) of the bestselling anthology comic ICE CREAM MAN, this oversized hardcover features standalone stories that manage to push the boundaries of the comics medium while also telling emotionally compelling yarns. From a comic that's a perfect palindrome (it can be read first-to-last...
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