The Marvel Super Heroes are back! Fans will light up with this second volume of the psychedelic, collectible portfolio featuring 12 frameable black light posters of celebrated Marvel Comics characters, such as Spider-Man, Captain Marvel, Captain America, Doctor Strange, and Black Bolt, illustrated by legendary artists including Jack Kirby, John Romita Sr., Gil Kane, and more.
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New York Times best-selling author Nick Hornby of High Fidelity fame has a new book Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius that explores the duality of Prince and Dickens in their individual centuries. So far apart but yet so much alike.
Innovations for Learning (IFL) Canada, a global non-profit that works to level the playing field for emerging readers in high-need communities, and Symcor, a leading Canadian organization that enables secure data exchanges, expand their partnership with the development of a new original storybook series. Ice Fishing with Nimkii tells the true story of Nimkii Lavell, the land-based Learning Lead with the Wiikwemkoong Board of Education, who ties education to traditional Anishinaabek outdoor activities.
Remember when long-haired British rock ’n’ rollers made teenage girls swoon ― and their parents go crazy? Britmania plunges into the period when suddenly, America went wild for All Things British. This profusely illustrated full-color hardback, subtitled “The British Invasion of the Sixties in Pop Culture,” explores the movies (A Hard Day’s Night, Having a Wild Weekend), TV (The Ed Sullivan Show, Magical Mystery Tour), collectibles (toys, games, trading cards, lunch boxes), comics (real-life Brits in the DC and Marvel Universes) and, of course, the music!
All you need are basic drawing tools and shapes to cartoon! The book features dozens of drawing projects and step-by-step instructions perfect for beginning and aspiring artists, cartoonists, illustrators, pen and graphite artists, and many others. Learn to draw cartoon characters and more using geometric shapes with Cartooning Made Easy: Circle, Triangle, Square by Margherita Cole.
Comic book adaptations of television shows have been around since the beginning of the medium. Before that, there were a few comic books based on movies. Today comic book publishers gravitate to well-known brand names. Some of them at one time were television shows. American TV Comic Books 1940s-1980s by Peter Bosch celebrates the halcyon days of adaptions of television shows to comic book form.
Quentin Tarantino's next book is a nonfiction dispatch from a lifelong movie fanatic. “Cinema Speculation,” to be published Oct. 25, will center on “The Getaway” and other films from the 1970s that influenced him during childhood. The book, announced Friday by Harper, comes a year after the best-selling novelization of his movie “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
Late Fragments Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed by Charles Baudelaire as translated by Richard Sieburth brings together Baudelaire’s late fragmentary writings, aphoristic in form and radical in thought, into one edited collection for the first time.
The title ‘SURRENDER: 40 Songs, One Story’ refers to the book’s 40 chapters, which are each named after a U2 song. Bono has also created 40 original drawings for ‘SURRENDER’ which will appear throughout the book. Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has Bon’s written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.
Now I know why Cleveland rocks. I recently discovered editorial cartoonist Ron Hill from Solon, Ohio who parodies Dr. Seuss in his new collection of editorial cartoons. His fourth book is cleverly titled, One Bird Two Birds Red Bird BluesBird from publisher Act 3. You will have to order this one online if you are not from the Cleveland area.
The good folks of Korero Press are at it again. Their newest book, Rayguns and Rocketships: Vintage Science Fiction Book Cover Art, promises thrills to the eyes. The compiled collection of vintage sci-fi artwork will inspire futurists at heart. The future that was and never to be. Get ready to blast off into the further outskirts of your imagination. Korero Press has your ticket punched for the greatest visual adventure from the comfort of your reading outpost. Keep an eye on Rayguns and Rocketships: Vintage Science Fiction Book Cover Art, it lands in your favorite book store in early December 2022.
DC League of Super-Pets the animated movie should be a romp. It is scheduled to be released on July 29, 2022, by Warner Bros. Pictures. Adventure abounds with the backstories of the paperback collection of super-pet stories. Tails of the Super-Pets is a great catch-up before the animated movie. The animated feature boosts the motley cast including Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Kate McKinnon, John Krasinski, Vanessa Bayer, Natasha Lyonne, Diego Luna, Thomas Middleditch, Ben Schwartz, and Keanu Reeves. Marc Maron voices the dastardly Lex Luthor. I figured they would make him voice Streaky, the Super-Cat.
Pacing the floor of her Cwmbran home during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic and government lockdown, Nicola Jane John felt frustrated. Unable to indulge in her favourite hobby - swimming - her nervous energy was rubbing off on her husband, who had a brilliant idea. He locked his wife in his study with a chilled bottle of wine and told her not to emerge until she’d put pen to paper and come up with a story for their local newspaper.
Yoga can be an intimidating thing for some. The Lighter Side of Yoga by Mike Nevitt is a whimsical look at yoga. We all want to make peace with our inner selves and the universe around us. Practitioners of yoga have to realize you have to have humility and humor for any kind of commitment to the higher plain of meditation. Modern yoga brings in many sets of unique individuals who interject yoga into their complicated lives. Mike Nevitt with his comical one-panel illustrations brings out these multi-faceted individuals who enter the world of yoga with their unique blend of expectations. Yoga should be a thing of fun, Mike is up to the task. There are giggles galore from page to page. Yoga should not be painful, the only pain you will suffer is the laughter that will make your cheeks hurt.
Rarely does a new talent arrive in the medium as unmistakably distinct as Rumi Hara? With immersive art and a clear-eyed storytelling rhythm, her uncategorizable debut, Nori, put her playful cartooning on display. Her new collection, The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories delight with equal mischievousness.
Sure the comic book publishers had a well-established property by printing TV series in comic book form. Some were successful, others not so much. Kids from the 40s-to 80s were not spoiled with the internet like the kids of today. Comic books were the only extension outside the TV shows besides the novelization of top-notch shows. Peter Bosch brings out in full color those amazing TV show tie-ins comic books from yesterday. American TV Comic Books (1940s-1980s) by TwoMorrows Publishing is a great addition to your home library. Be sure to also buy Retro Fan from TwoMorrows Publishing.
A box-set facsimile collection of three classic Peanuts comic strip books – Peanuts, More Peanuts and Good Ol’ Charlie Brown. With each book containing 128 pages, that’s over 360 pages of classic Peanuts daily and Sunday newspaper comic strips to enjoy. Including art cards featuring the cover art from the individual books.
I love Taschen books, anytime I get a chance to buy them at second-hand bookstores, I will not hesitate to buy them. However, when big volumes such as Marvel Comics Library Avengers Vol. 1 come into circulation, I will fork out the big bucks. The Avengers is another book that will not disappoint. Taschen does it better than the original comic book publishing houses. This volume collects the first 20 issues of the Avengers. Better get some Charles Atlas muscles to read this big volume.
My Spidey senses are tingling with anticipation. Spider-Man is celebrating 60 years since he was created by Stan Lee and Steve Diko in 1961. Look out for A History and Celebration of the Web-Slinger, Decade by Decade by Matthew K. Manning, Robert Greenberger, Peter A. David. This promises to be one great book about your favorite friendly neighborhood web-slinger.
It's always a treat when there is a new Deadman book anthology. Deadman has always been a favorite of mine. A fugitive type of hero that you will never forget. They say Deadmen tell no tales, but this Deadman has 13 tales that will spook you. Get ready for Deadman Tells the Spooky Tales by Franco and a few of his fiendish friends!
I got TCM as my go-to station. My PVR is working overtime recording each week movies that matter. I value all the host's information about the movies that are about to show. Alicia Malone is a welcome addition to the station. Her keen movie sense brings a unique spin each week to movies we cherish. I am very excited to know she just released, Girls on Film: Witty Life Lessons from Alicia Malone from Mango Publishing. I am a fan of the hosts on TCM, nice to see Alicia share a bit more about herself through the movies she watches. Life imitates art some will say, Alicia, is just as glamourous as the film's actresses that she showcases each week. She is a jewel in the TCM family. This is one book you will not want to miss.
The history of the Hollies is enigmatic at best. Their squeaky clean images kept them out of the spotlight. The Beatles hogged the British scene in the 60s, while The Rolling Stones thrived on their enfant terrible image. This might be the reason why not much is written on The Hollies. The Hollies: Riding The Carousel by Malcolm C. Searles promises to shed light on perhaps of the greatest 60s band.
The cult classic science fiction series Space: 1999 has legions of fans around the world and has been researched and documented in comprehensive books and documentaries, so fans can be forgiven for thinking there’s nothing new … This book takes you back to the beginning, to the genesis of the series, and to early themes, characters, and story outlines.
Worldly Things refuses to “offer allegiance” to this centuries-old status quo. With uncompromising candor, Kleber-Diggs documents the many ways America systemically fails those who call it home while also calling upon our collective potential for something better. “Let’s create folklore side-by-side,” he urges, asking us to aspire to a form of nurturing defined by tenderness, to a kind of community devoted to mutual prosperity. “All of us want,” after all, “our share of light, and just enough rainfall.”