Cartoon Success Secrets offers a veritable comics college education on how to succeed as a cartoonist. It features insider’s perspectives from 20 top cartoonists, whose comic strips such as Zits, Garfield, Cathy, and For Better or For Worse appear in at least a thousand newspapers every day. Author Jud Hurd caught the cartooning bug more…
From the moment she grasps your finger in her tiny hands or he gazes at you with his big blue eyes, a baby steals your heart. You feel, in a word, blessed. And if that feeling is difficult to remember during the 2 a.m. feedings, Baby Beatitudes is a pleasant reminder. Baby love takes your…
‘Even if you don’t follow this delightful series in the paper (and you should, you know), you’re in for a treat.” More About How Come I’m Always Luigi? In 1988, a comic strip burst onto the funny pages of America’s newspapers with attitude, wit, and a big dose of reality when it comes to family…
Are you a Ruppie? More and more people are trending toward living downtown. Author Kyle Ezell demonstrates how empty nesters can live out their golden years full of fun and independence in the midst of the city. Ruppies–Retired Urban People–are cropping up all over the country. The populations of city downtowns are exploding nationwide. Also…
Out of the earth’s 6 billion people, we probably have 5.9 billion to go, but that’s the goal. I’d like nothing better than to have 6 billion people talking and thinking about protecting our planet, and I see no reason to stop trying.” –Wyland Muralists naturally think big. But Wyland-arguably the world’s best-known marine painter,…
So far this century, there have arguably been three breakout hits on the comics page-The Boondocks, Get Fuzzy, and Pearls Before Swine." –San Francisco Chronicle * Get Fuzzy was named Best Comic Strip of the Year in 2002 by the National Cartoonists Society and now appears in more than 500 newspapers worldwide. Satchel, the ever-hapless…
Small plates. Appetizers are the new entrees. . . . Call it the age of the do-it-yourself tasting menu.” —New York Magazine * Imagine any-occasion entertaining made easy. Replace the tired entree with refreshing small-plate options and wine pairings. Small plates in the form of Middle Eastern mezze, Spanish tapas, Mexican antojitos, and Venetian cicchetti…
The humor is a wickedly authentic blend of young-professional-bachelor shtick and pets-from-hell high jinks. . . . And, perhaps best of all, the strip keeps getting better." –Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Get Fuzzy was named Best Comic Strip of the Year in 2002 by the National Cartoonists Society. Satchel, the Shar-pei-Lab mix in the Get Fuzzy family…
Chances are the warm fuzzies aren’t what you will get when you pick up Ignorance, Thy Name Is Bucky. Instead, you’ll get LOL moments as Darby Conley pumps hilarity into living the single life with pets. The family portrait: Rob Wilco, the tallest member of the family, is a single, mild-mannered ad executive who pays…
Look out–because we went Down Under to find the raw and rubbernecking talent of Andrew Weldon. Weldon is one of Australia’s sharpest humorists; he has delighted, amused, and even appalled readers and fans. He does it again with If You Weren’t a Hedgehog . . . If I Weren’t a Hemophiliac… LOL. What else can…
Recipes for “little food” such as after-school snacks, breakfast, soups, and sammies go a long way in Broadhurst’s clever Ready, Steady, Spaghetti. Broadhurst makes cooking with kids easy and entertaining. Kids will fill up on fun and food with cool and exciting recipes like Spaghetti with Chicken Meatballs, Stir-Fried Chinese Vegetables, Moo Juice, Lemon Butterfly…
Channel your inner Zen turtle with Sandy Gingras's gorgeous watercolor gift book. Long ago, Sandy Gingras read “The Tortoise and the Hare,” a fable that teaches “slow and steady wins the race.” But she didn’t learn the lesson! Instead she lived the race of hurry-up and do-it-all every day. And it was tiring. But now,…