Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior Graphic Novel

Battle for the Dragon

Grab your pickaxes and jump back into the action in this fourth installment of the Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior graphic novel series. Runt and his crew are back for the fourth installment of the Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior Graphic Novel series. As they prepare for the epic battle against the evil incarnate of…

The Apron Book

Making, Wearing, and Sharing a Bit of Cloth and Comfort

Aprons are back! After more than 30 years in the attic, aprons are making a splashy comeback in a happy convergence of nostalgia, pop culture, and contemporary fashion.Vintage aprons and modern designs are turning up in movies, magazine spreads, upscale shops, and hip retail venues like Anthropologie, whose trendy line of aprons is selling as…

Butt-Naked Baby Blues

A Baby Blues Treasury

Baby Blues is one of today’s top strips and considered among the best family comic strips ever. Butt-Naked Baby Blues chronicles the never-ending mayhem of the McPherson household in living color. As usual, Darryl and Wanda have their hands full chasing, refereeing, and pleading with their adorable and hilariously true-to-life kids. Featuring the best of…

Humongous Zits

A Zits Treasury

Adolescence is a time of painful growth and unpredictable change, when kids come packaged in a jumble of baggy jeans, rolling eyeballs, and grunting communication. Cartoonists Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman have captured the humor of that challenging time with Zits, in which they chronicle the life and times of the typically exasperating yet ever…

Big Nate Out Loud

Now an animated series with Paramount+ and Nickelodeon!In this follow up to New York Times best-seller Big Nate: From the Top, eleven-year-old Nate Wright is living OUT LOUD and he wouldn't have it any other way! Even though his friends won't let him be the lead singer in their band, Nate continues to rock. He's…

The Dreadful Fate of Jonathan York

A Yarn for the Strange at Heart

Discover the horrible fate of Jonathan York as he sets out on his journey through a spooky forest with an alarming party of travelmates! “…[a] hair-raising tribute to the life-changing power of stories . . . Merritt shows both a knack for evocative phrasing … and a deft hand at crafting flamboyantly icky monsters in…

Busted!

Zits Sketchbook #6

"Zits has been a smash since it was introduced in 1997. It’s the story of Jeremy, a typical 15-year-old who rolls his eyes and sighs at his baby boomer parents but also loves and needs them. You may not laugh when your teenager acts that way toward you, but you’ll laugh at Zits."Mention the comic…

Don’t Roll Your Eyes at Me, Young Man!

Zits Sketchbook 3

In Zits, countless readers relish Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott’s right-on look at teenage life, as told through the eyes of perpetually ambivalent, yet lovable, teenager Jeremy Duncan. Here’s a 15-year-old kid who seems to speak for teenagers everywhere, even if it’s with a withering look or a nonchalant shrug. As Jeremy himself might say:…

Big Honkin’ Zits

A Zits Treasury

Widely lauded by critics, colleagues, and readers, Zits is has been twice honored with the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award as the Best Newspaper Comic Strip, and received the Max and Moritz Award for Best International Comic Strip. This treasury, Big Honkin’ Zits, represents a compilation of Don’t Roll Your Eyes at Me, Young Man!…

Thrashed

Zits Sketchbook No. 9

“Bottom line: Zits rocks.”It’s incredible to think that Zits was only launched in syndication in the summer of 1997. Since then, the strip’s leading teenager, Jeremy Duncan, and his mom, dad, and assorted friends have become a part of the American fabric and, more important, a part of our own families. Who else but cocreators…

Growth Spurt

Zits Sketchbook 2

  ”With these instantly familiar characters, Scott and Borgman create laser-accurate slices of family life in a handful of skillfully drawn vignettes each day. Their special genius is viewing the always baffling, often stressful care and feeding of teens as light(hearted) work.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Is it any wonder that 15-year-olds feel caught in the middle? They’re revved…

Framed!

A Baby Blues Treasury

Kirkman and Scott don’t just have their fingers on the pulse of the modern middle-class family; they have a grip on its wrist like a mother pulling a three-year-old past a grocery store cookie aisle. Tadpoles in the toilet, backseat border wars, emergency homemade diapers . . . welcome to another year in the life…