Skip to the Fun Parts

Cartoons and Complaints About the Creative Process

The perfect companion for anyone struggling to keep their sense of humor while staring at a blank page, Skip to the Fun Parts offers next-to-zero creative advice, and is instead filled with cartoons, commiserations, and jokes about the creative process. Like you, syndicated cartoonist Dana Maier wants a creativity shortcut—a magical fairy who will both…

The Robin Takes 5 Cookbook for Busy Families

Over 200 Recipes with 5 Ingredients or Less for Breakfasts, School Lunches, After-School Snacks, Family Dinners, and Desserts

Imagine your day like this: a nourishing breakfast; a gourmet lunch; creative afternoon snacks; a scrumptious family dinner; a decadent dessert. Dream no more: This can be your typical day because The Robin Takes 5 Cookbook for Busy Families boasts 200 recipes that are ready in a flash with 5 ingredients or less.  “Robin brings…

The Mother-Daughter Dance

A modern Everywoman, Cathy endeared herself to millions of fans who share her struggles with the four basic guilt groups: food, love, mother, and career. This comic page heroine blazed a trail for single working women and for her pursuit of perfection against all odds. The most beloved mother-daughter duo is back with a brand-new comic take…

We Bloom

A Garden of Friendship

 ”We bloom because we picked each other.” On page after page of We Bloom: A Garden of Friendship, Dana Simson’s philosophy rings charmingly true and appealing. That’s what makes this collection of original sayings, illustrated in the author’s unique style, such a wonderful gift for that special friend who means so much. Dana Simson grew up with…

Larry in Wonderland

A Pearls Before Swine Collection

One of the best-selling cartoons today. Offering blistering commentary on hot-button topics related to recent news events, popular culture, cartoon-page contemporaries, and more, Pearls Before Swine expertly illustrates the flaws and shortcomings of human nature through Pastis’s mindful menagerie of fiery and feisty characters. Stephan Pastis offers Pearls Before Swine fans a visit to the…

Red Rascal’s War

A Doonesbury Book

Hot on the heels of his smash 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective, Garry Trudeau is back with an annual collection of this iconic comic strip. Readers and critics were wowed by G. B. Trudeau’s epic masterpiece 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective, and they’ll rejoice when they see this beautiful follow-up volume. Featuring an innovative format and an…

MUTTS Sunday Afternoons

A MUTTS Treasury

MUTTS is, to put it simply, the best comic strip produced in North America today.” –The Infodad Page’s five-star review Giant events, earth-shaking themes, complex issues…all of these can make for captivating cartoons. But it’s the artist who can take the simple, keep it simple, and still tell a story that really stands apart from…

Skip!

A Graphic Novel

Jay often feels that like they are a nobody. Beah, on the other hand, is fierce, charming, athletic—and OBSESSED with the street skipping art, Double Dutch. When the two meet, sparks fly, in this colorful slice-of-life graphic novel about the wonder of platonic friendship and finding your identity. 2023 AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL…

I Hope My Voice Doesn’t Skip

Bestselling writer and activist Alicia Cook returns with I Hope My Voice Doesn't Skip, a collection of poetry, prose, and song. The follow-up to Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately contains anthem-like poems about relationships, mental health, current social issues, and learning from loss, with the promise that recovery is possible. The reader's experience with this unique collection is lifted from the page…

Priceless

The Vanishing Beauty of a Fragile Planet

Mitsuaki Iwago’s gorgeous photographs of adorable endangered animals accompanied by Bradley Trevor Greive’s impassioned plea for environmental consciousness and sprinkled with facts and figures on humans’ steady corruption of the earth in Priceless. There may be no more effective argument against environmental devastation than gorgeous photographs of adorable endangered animals–and this book is packed with…