May 4th is Free Comic Book Day all across North America. The world awaits for Iron-Man 3 as he ushers in this summer’s crop…
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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…
Everybody has a Paradox dog at one time or another. Matthew Inman’s unique dog Paradox tale garnered over 700 000 likes on Facebook. If you…
The new exciting Peanuts paperback from an alternate universe. Snoopy goes back in time to the dinosaur age on Easter. Hey That’s Not an Easter…
I had to take a picture of this cool Tintin bookend at the Crow Bookshop in Burlington. This is a great little nest for bibliophiles.
Here is a book I missed. Man’s best friend is center stage with The New Yorker’s The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs. It is…
Don’t judge a book by its cover or title. Here are the finalists for The Diagram Prize 2013 for strangest book tile. How can you…
Sandbox World favorite Ivan Brunetti of Misery Loves Comedy fame is back with a new book called, Aesthetics: A Memoir. I am excited to see…
Photographer Chris Turner, paper engineer Helen Friel and animator Jess Deacon explore the life cycle of a single drop of water through an animated stop…
Father knows best, Vader is back with Vader’s Little Princess by Jeffrey Brown. I loved the first book, Darth Vader and Son. This should be…
Elvis Presley’s earliest signature can be traced to 1948 when he checked out, The Courageous Heart: A Life of Andrew Jackson for Young Readers, from…
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…
Ever wonder where The Oatmeal gets his fonts from? I am curious by nature and had to find out. Here are the top five free…
I was pleasantly surprised by Drawing Comics Lab: 52 Exercises on Characters, Panels, Storytelling, Publishing & Professional Practices by Robyn Chapman. I thought it was…
Better get a jumbo stocking for this Calvin and Hobbes tome of the complete adventures of your favorite kid/tiger duo. This time around the set…
Chuck Jones, Tex Avery and Friz Freleng are perceived as the animators who built the foundation of the Warner Brothers animation studio. The McKimson brothers,…
I just don’t get guys who buy action figures (dolls) and leave them in the original packaging. I found this cartoon dead on about the…
This is one way to get rid of those old books. Bookstore ‘Le Bal des Ardents’ in Lyon , France created a book arch entrance.
The legend of the Monkey King is not so foreign in North America as you might think. Having interviewed Gene Luen Yang and as a…
Leave it to the Swedes to wimp out Batman. Batman is called Läderlappen in Sweden. Bob Hope took Sweden and they gave us IKEA. We…
Move over turkey, chicken will be the star of Thanksgiving this year. Get ready for some sultry food porn. Fifty Shades of Chicken: A Parody…
Charlie Brown is the Atlas of comic strip characters, he carries the weight of the world. This strip illustrates perhaps a thing of the past,…
Bob Staake’s parody of bad children’s books from 1940s through 1960s.
This will be a hit with bibliophiles. Paper Passion Perfume smells like real books. Here is a fragrance that even Guy Montag will love. “The…