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I Luv Halloween Ultimate Twisted Edition

By tone | Published: October 8, 2008
I Luv Halloween, The  Ultimate Twisted Edition.  At last! The collected adventures of those lovable and loathable Halloween hooligans from the town of Turgid Meadows in one vile volume! It began with a horrible Halloween omen. An apple for a treat! But it ended in murder, mayhem and madness. From zombie [...]
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Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip – Book Three

By tone | Published: September 29, 2008
Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip – Book Three Moomin is taking the comic book industry by storm with the serious readers of the genre. Drawn and Quarterly release once again the third edition of the popular series. Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip is over fifty [...]
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Danica Novgorodoff’s Slow Storm

By tone | Published: September 1, 2008
 Mother Nature’s bag of calamity can deliver some life altering moments for people under the constant eye of approaching doom. Gustav slowly tears through the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, people evacuate from nearby coastal cities as impending hurricane forces threaten to destroy everything that it touches. The aftermath of a phenomena such as hurricanes and tornadoes [...]
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The New Parents’ Fun Book: Laugh Yourself Silly Through Baby’s First Year!

By tone | Published: August 25, 2008
If there were a manual on how to nurture and survive raising your baby for the first year, this book is for you. You have to have a wry sense of humor to raise your little bundle of joy. There will be days you [...]
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BARACK OBAMA Comic Book

By tone | Published: July 30, 2008
Inspiration is abound. Hollywood is cashing in comic book related movies with this summer’s bonanza box office receipts. So what are comics to do? They look to politics for the newest pool of ideas. When you look at it, American politics is greater than life. Heroes [...]
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Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights

By tone | Published: July 13, 2008
Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights More speculative than anything, Santa vs. Satan, is sort of a "Celebrity Death-match" of intellectual proportions. The book asks what it would be like if certain Pop Culture persons real or imagined would be like if they went head to head. [...]
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Anna Smudge: Professional Shrink

By tone | Published: June 11, 2008
Anna Smudge: Professional Shrink With the advent of summer holidays and school winding down. Kids are under the impression that learning is out the window. No more books, perish the thought. There are many books out there that will keep those little bright eyes glued to some exciting adventures. Some [...]
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Cherise the Niece

By tone | Published: June 8, 2008
Jim Benton’s Cherise the Niece If you cherish Edward Gorey, Charles Addams, and Tim Burton and have a bent for black humor, then Jim Benton is your man. His new collection of prose illustrated gore and more is in the tradition of  Edward Gorey?s The Gashlycrumb Tinies. These [...]
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Al Jaffee’s Tall Tales

By tone | Published: June 4, 2008
Tall Tales was an innovative newspaper strip syndicated internationally by the New York Herald Tribune from 1957?1963. Whereas newspaper strips are square, single-panel or multiple-panel horizontal gag cartoons, Al Jaffee, known for the Fold-In in MAD Magazine, once again altered the format of his work [...]
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Disney’s Kingdom Comics

By tone | Published: May 29, 2008
Kingdom Comics is the newest imprint to hit the stands to exploit the Disney vault of past nuggets in the company. A constant staple for many generations, many characters are just gathering dust and relegated to grown adults dressed as the mascots of the Disney world parks. [...]
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