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Bazooka Joe and His Gang: 60 Years Later

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I grew up chewing Bazooka Joe gum and reading those free cheesy wrapper comics included inside.  They were so corny but I enjoyed them for those brief few seconds.  They finally managed to collect some of these not so great Bazooka Joe moments in book form. Can you believe it has been 60 years since that little piece of gum came out of an assembly line and found a way into kids’ mouths all over North America.  This book will give you time to chew on childhood memories.  Bazooka Joe and His Gang is a keeper for nostalgic reasons. Bazooka Joe was the fortune cookie of the bubblegum industry.

Bazooka Joe and his Gang have been synonymous with bubble gum ever since their debut in 1953, providing an irresistible combination of cheap laughs wrapped around pink, sugary sweetness. This book celebrates the iconic mini-comics that are recognized the world over. The story of Bazooka Bubble Gum is also detailed with extensive essays, including a profile of Wesley Morse, the original illustrator of Bazooka Joe. Included are reproductions of more than 100 classic comics spanning six decades—including the complete first series, reprinted in its entirety for the first time—as well as jokes, fortunes, and tiny ads for mail-order merchandise. Like Bazooka Bubble Gum itself, the book is pure nostalgia and guaranteed to appeal to kids and adults alike.


Includes 4 bonus trading cards and a genuine wax wrapper that evokes the original bubble gum packaging—like holding an actual piece of Bazooka in your hands!

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Nipper and Hockey are Back

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Canada’s two greatest pastimes are back. Hockey and Doug Wright’s Nipper. The third edition collects the years 1967 and 1968. Doug Wright is in fine form as Drawn & Quarterly collects in book form the best comic strip of the time. In 1967, the Montreal Canadiens and the Toronto Maple Leafs met for the Stanley Cup. That was the last year the Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup. Tim Horton was still a player. He could not double double the Lord Stanley prize for Toronto.

Things are still fun, innocent, and wholesome in the suburbs: there’s road hockey in the streets, boys have their friends over for sleepovers, and kids play freely on their own outside, with little or no parental supervision. The pantomime strip does reference contemporary life, however, with the entire Wright family making an excursion to downtown Montreal for the 1967 World’s Fair. As always, Wright’s stellar draftsmanship, fond eye for detail, and brilliant sense of comic timing shines throughout this volume of the Nipper series.

 

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How Did That Get In My Lunchbox?: Ideas are Dangerous

You got to learn the golden rule. Ideas can be dangerous. As sleepy kids make their way on school buses to once again start classes. You ask, How Did That Get In My Lunchbox? Bullies always find a way to make things difficult. As a kid I drew schoolyard political cartoons. I drew pictures of bullies and made fun of them. I got a whopping praise from them. They did not appreciate humor. My schoolyard political cartoon career was cut short because I was told my life might suffer the same fate. Word of advice. Bullies don’t go away. They buy guns. Empower yourself with knowledge and get many friends. Not those on Facebook, actual flesh friends that you can touch. There is strength in numbers. The bullies learn that one quickly, so should you.

Cartoonist Ali Ferzat’s got beat down recently because he did not like the politics in his country. The bullies in his world were not appreciative of his political cartoons, so they broke his hands and spirit. At one time Ali Ferzat was a young boy waiting on a corner to go to school and learn about his world. It’s a dangerous place out there. Feed your head and bellies and come home in one piece. You should not be afraid to learn and speak your mind.

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The Summharry Harry Potter Parody by Lucy Knisley

In celebration of the last Harry Potter movie, an illustrated recap of the series as illustrated by Lucy Knisley.

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The Cars of Tintin

Cartoonist Hergé prided himself with the reality in the Tintin world. Some fans of the Belgian tome are a bit on the obsessive side. Imagine collecting all the information on vehicles used in the series and matching them up with photo realistic counterparts. The cars of Tintin does exactly that. Just in the Calculus Affair book, there is an abundance of cars in it.

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Lady Gaga and the Telephone Children’s Book

Andrew Kolb took Lady Gaga’s song “Telephone” and superimposed the lyrics onto a discarded forgotten children’s book. The images and lyrics are a perfect marriage of two unlikely ideas.

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Papertoy Monsters: Make Your Very Own Amazing Papertoys

You can make some of the coolest toys out of paper with, Papertoy Monsters: Make Your Very Own Amazing Papertoys! Spend some quality time with the kids and produce amazing results. Pry them away from those video games and have a few hours of together fun. This is paperwork you will enjoy.

A breakthrough paper-folding book for kids—paper airplanes meet Origami meets Pokemon. Papertoys, the Internet phenomenon that’s hot among graphic designers and illustrators around the world, now comes to kids in the coolest new book. Created and curated by Brian Castleforte, a graphic designer and papertoy pioneer who rounded up 25 of the hottest papertoy designers from around the world (Indonesia, Japan, Australia, Italy, Croatia, Chile, even Jackson, Tennessee), Papertoy Monsters offers 50 fiendishly original die-cut designs that are ready to pop out, fold, and glue. The book interleaves card stock with paper stock for a unique craft package; the graphics are colorful and hip, combining the edginess of anime with the goofy fun of Uglydolls and other collectibles. Plus each character comes with its own back-story.

And the results are delicious: meet Pharaoh Thoth Amon, who once ruled Egypt but is now a mummy who practices dark magic in his sarcophagus. Or Zumbie the Zombie, who loves nothing more than a nice plate of brains and yams. NotSoScary, a little monster so useless at frightening people that he has to wear a scary mask. Yucky Chuck, the lunchbox creature born in the deepest depths of your school bag. Plus Zeke, the monster under your bed, Nom Nom, eater of cities, and Grumpy Gramps, the hairy grandpa monster with his very own moustache collection.

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Figment is Imagination

You see kids texting everywhere. Figment.com is about to harness all that energy and turn these young texters into writers of novels. Kids in Japan are writing novels with their cellphones. Seems outlandish. What is really the difference between a smart-phone and a typewriter? They both write down our thoughts. Figment of our imagination it is not, this is going to be the future. Novels on the run. Portable ideas with a generation on the go. Novels can be written and delivered at a faster pace then ever before. Ideas are flowing ever faster in our evolution. Those too slow to adapt will get left behind.

Figment is ImaginationJapanese-style mobile-lit business in the U.S. that allows people to use Web-enabled cell phones to write short stories, poems, even novels.

“The revolutionary aspect of online literature is that it is unfiltered, unfettered… its structures support collaboration and cross-pollination, and a vibrant critical community.” — Dana Goodyear, co-founder

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An Awesome Book of Thanks!

Ideas are like seeds, sometimes they grow wild and spread like crazy and inspire others. LA-based artist and writer Dallas Clayton made people smile with An Awesome Book! a few years ago. Now he wants to give thanks to everybody that he made smile. His new book is simply called, An Awesome Book of Thanks!

Dallas Clayton is the author and illustrator of the breakthrough hit An Awesome Book!. He is also the creator of the Awesome World Foundation which donates books to children in need. Dallas has toured the planet reading to kids and encouraging them to dream big. With such overwhelming energy and unprecedented success, Clayton is well on his way to earning the title that many in the blogosphere have already bandied about: “The Dr. Seuss of the internet generation.” An Awesome Book of Thanks! is the much-anticipated second title from this uniquely creative rising star.

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Tintin Movie First Look

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Empire magazine is getting the exclusive first look at Tintin. The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, stars Jamie Bell as Tintin, Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as Thomson and Thompson, and Daniel Craig as Red Rackham. The Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s CGI adaptation of Hergé will open on December 23, 2011.

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Lorax the Movie

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Hollywood once again is dipping into the Dr. Seuss well for ideas. The next movie to be made is the Lorax. The past movies have now scored too high at the box office. The reason most likely is based on the fact that the books are short in length and not much room to make a full length movie. New elements are added and Dr. Seuss purists stay away from the movies. Danny DeVito will voice The Lorax with the crew of Despicable Me and Horton Hears a Who doing the magical animation. The Lorax will released by Universal Pictures and should see a street date of March 2, 2012.

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Harry Stardust

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Here is an oddity of a perfect marriage. Ziggy Stardust meets Harry Potter. The awesome t-shirt was designed by Evan Ferstenfeld & Enkel Dika. David Bowie would fit well in the Potter universe.

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The Most Dangerous Book For Kids

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The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments was supposedly banned by the government due to the fact that kids could seriously injure themselves. There are only 126 copies of this book in libraries worldwide.  They didn’t want little Bruce Banner building any hydrogen bombs that might level part of suburbia. Now you can view the book online for free. Please do not try these experiments without adult supervision. If you are over 18 and still living in your parent’s basement, this warning does not apply to you.

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Awful Superhero Toys

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From the what were they thinking of department. Comic book related toys licenses are given out to practically anything under the sun. These Wonder Woman scissors seem innocent at first but after a few cuts it becomes a bit more offensive. There have been many toys such as this. See more awful toys>>

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A Zombie Ate My Cupcake!

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Cupcakes are here to stay. The explosion of gastronomic hunger for cupcakes is even branching out to zombies. Lily Vanilli’s A Zombie Ate My Cupcake! is a recipe of success, it’s not your typical recipe book. A dash of fun was added to the ghoulish sweet recipes. You will be in a zombie tranche as your belly will ache and growl like a coyote for a taste of these cupcakes recipes.

A zombie ate my cupcakeThis book features killer cupcakes that taste bloody good! After being banished for so long to the land of the pretty and identical, the domestic and the twee, cupcakes are biting back. Here, Lily Vanilli shows how you can take inspiration from anywhere – insects, roadkill, zombies – and recreate it in cake, but always with a delicious result. This book is an introduction to making cakes that look weird, ugly and even grotesque – but that taste divine! There are amazing materials for making edible sculptures and hundreds of things you can do with natural ingredients. Give guests a shock with revoltingly realistic Marzipan Beetles, or add a crunch to your desserts with Morbid Meringue Bones, dipped in raspberry blood sauce. Try out a black cherry Dracula’s Bite red velvet cupcake with cream cheese, eat your way through heavenly Fallen Angel Cakes or go for indulgent and truly dark chocolate Devil’s Delight Cupcakes. If Ozzy Osbourne made cupcakes, these are the ones he’d want to eat.

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