-Titulo Original : Usa Today Crossword 200 Puzzles From The Nations No. 1 Newspaper (usa Today Puzzles) (volume 2)-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: The Nations Newspaper offers puzzle-smiths the ultimate book featuring a new collection of challenging conundrums.You can be sitting in the train working a puzzle but it can take you far away from the everyday. Before you know it youre at your stop or about to pass it. Its not like you were even in the train. Its something different, something removed from the ordinary.-Maki Kaji, The Japanese TimesBoasting an average of 60 word clues, each game is centered on themes such as Letters to Rome, Tax Credits, Opposites Attract, and more. About the Author Founded in 1982, USA TODAY reflects the pulse of the nation, serving as host of the American conversation by delivering high-quality, engaging content through unique visual storytelling across all platforms. A media innovator, USA TODAY reaches more than 90 million unique visitors each month across digital platforms, with more than 25 million downloads of our award-winning app. USA TODAY is owned by Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI)....

-Titulo Original : Big Nate Aloha! (volume 25)-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: Now an animated series with Paramount and Nickelodeon!The latest installment in the thrilling, bestselling Big Nate series by Lincoln Peirce.Aloha can mean hello or goodbye-which makes it the perfect word for sixth grader Nate Wright. Why? Because Nate doesnt know whether hes coming or going. Will his romance with Daisy sizzle or fizzle? Will his hair survive Teddys cut-rate barber skills? And when Nate spots a crime in progress at Klassic Komix, can he find his inner superhero? In this latest Big Nate collection, all your favorite characters are back with brand-new adventures: Sumo-grams, (almost) no-hitters, and even a sidewalk concert featuring Enslave The Mollusk. Say goodbye to boredom and hello to hilarity with Big Nate: Aloha! About the Author Lincoln Peirce has been drawing the Big Nate comic strip for almost 30 years. Born in Ames, Iowa, Peirce grew up in Durham, New Hampshire. As a kid, he began creating his own strips in the sixth grade. Peirce taught high school in New York City and has created several animated pilots for Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. He lives in Portland, Maine, with his family....

-Titulo Original : Unicorn Playlist Another Phoebe And Her Unicorn Adventure (volume 14)-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: From newspapers to Nickelodeon, Phoebe and Her Unicorn is the most stunning unicorn feature around! This latest collection of Phoebe comics will delight middle grade readers and unicorn lovers of all ages. Best friends Phoebe Howell and Marigold Heavenly Nostrils march to their own beat, but life isn’t all rainbows and unicorns. With so many problems in the world and drama at school, Phoebe wonders why unicorns aren’t in charge instead of humans. With Marigold, each day is full of magic, from introducing Phoebe to unicorn music to crashing a goblin popularity contest, and even tracking down long-lost family members like Infernus, the Unicorn of Death (who ends up being surprisingly adorable). In Unicorn Playlist, Phoebe and Marigold play all the hits. From School Library Journal Gr 3-7-In the 14th book in the series, Phoebe, a young brown-skinned girl, and her pal Marigold the unicorn continue to reflect on the world, each other, and human-unicorn differences. The comic strips here cover many topics, including dealing with bad news in the world, reconciling different tastes in music, meeting Marigolds nonbinary cousin (pronouns: neigh/neighre), and getting along with Phoebes popular frenemy Dakota. Marigolds subplots involve magical creatures and ancient standards, while Phoebes often include trappings of modern culture like smartphones and video games. Phoebes innate curiosity and affability make her a great audience proxy, while Marigold is alternately Phoebes humorous and comforting foil. Whenever they chat, friendship blossoms and deepens. The majority of pages use 2x2 panel layouts, with occasional changes of pace such as a gallery of unicorn vistas or a dragons comedy roast performance. A glossary provides phonetic spellings and definitions of some of the books vocabulary. VERDICT The dry wit, observational humor, and wholesome friendship at the core of the series have not dimmed one bit. Highly recommended.-Thomas Maluck About the Author Dana Claire Simpson grew up in Gig Harbor, Washington, drawing the entire time. She eventually graduated from The Evergreen State College, despite having spent all her time drawing, and not always for credit.From 1998 to 2008, she drew the internet comic strip Ozy and Millie. After winning the Amazon-sponsored Comic Strip Superstar Contest in 2009, Andrews McMeel Syndication signed her to a development deal for Heavenly Nostrils, which was later renamed Phoebe and Her Unicorn.She currently lives in Santa Barbara, California, with her tech genius spouse and her fairly stupid cat....

-Titulo Original : Disney Dreams Collection By Thomas Kinkade Studios 2022 Monthly/weekly Engageme-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: The Disney Dreams 2022 Engagement Calendar is an eye-catching hardcover planner filled with delightful art from the Disney Dreams Collection by Thomas Kinkade Studios. Each weekly spread of this 12-month planner includes a full-color image such as Sleeping Beauty Dancing in the Enchanted Light or Winnie the Pooh I . Features include: Sturdy, fully-designed hard cover Concealed spiral binding Measures 5.75 x 8 closed; 11.5 x 8 open Storage pockets in the front and back of the calendar Year-at-a-glance pages for 2021, 2022, and 2023 12-month calendar runs from January-December 2022 Monthly pages at the front Weekly spreads feature full-color art and space to add events, appointments, and reminders Widely celebrated and nationally recognized holidays and observances Moon phases, based on Universal Time Space for 2023 planning as well as names & numbers in the back Printed on FSC-certified paper with soy-based ink © Disney About the Author Thomas Kinkade, the Painter of LightTM, emphasized simple pleasures and inspirational messages through his art-and the branded products created from that art. From textiles, to collectibles, to music and books, Thom believed that both the ability and the inspiration to create his paintings had been given to him as a gift. His goal as an artist was to bring peace and joy into peoples lives through the images he created....

-Titulo Original : Magic Eye III, Vol. 3 Visions A New Dimension In Art 3D Illustrations (Volume 3)-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: This collection of fun, engaging 3D illustrations is perfect for Magic Eye fans everywhere. ??In bookstores and living rooms all over America--indeed, all over the world--people are scarcely believing what they see! Is it magic? No, its Magic Eye 3D images! Magic Eye has left amazed and enthralled millions craving more. Stare into these seemingly abstract fields of color (no funny glasses required) and an enchanting 3D image materializes. You will be astounded by the depth and clarity of the totally hidden image that develops like an instant photo. About the Author Magic Eye® ignited the worldwide 3D craze of the 1990s. In fact, Magic Eye I, II, and III appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list for a combined 73 weeks. More than 20 million copies of Magic Eye books have been sold in more than 25 languages. The weekly newspaper syndicated comic strip has appeared in newspapers around the world since 1994. ...

-Titulo Original : Inspired By Nature Sketchbook-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: Marjolein Bastins passion for the natural world saturates each page of the Inspired by Nature Sketchbook, and kindred spirits will adore this unique, beautifully illustrated sketchbook. Known for her charming, lush nature illustrations, Marjolein has kept detailed sketchbooks of the things she encounters in nature since she was a young girl. This book features a number of her personal sketches side-by-side with the fully wrought, exquisitely detailed pieces of art they inspired. Blank pages, with hand-drawn borders by Marjolein, are included after each illustrated spread for users to document their own drawings and thoughts. A durable cover, an envelope in the back for nature finds, and a bound ribbon bookmark make this sketchbook both beautiful and useful. Review “Bastin’s handsome book is meant to be carried, tucked into a rucksack with pencils and watercolors, to be used in the field to capture ‘experiences, observations and nature finds.’” (California Fall Color) About the Author Marjolein Bastin creates artwork for greetings cards, calendars, dinnerware, bedding, gifts, and more. Through her art and words, Marjolein offers people a simple reminder to pause and enjoy nature and allow it to be a source of serenity, energy, and healing. Finding inspiration in a bird lighting on a branch or a leaf drying in the autumn sun, Marjolein takes long walks each day to seek new ideas for her artwork and her writings...

-Titulo Original : The 16% Solution How To Get High Interest Rates In A Low-interest World With Tax Lien Certificates, Revised Edition-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: Review 5 Stars: Easy to read and understand!!!. -Bea, An Amazon reader, March 20, 20195 Stars: Easy to understand. - Andre Lopez, an Amazon reader, September 20, 2018 5 Stars: It is incredibly informative and approachable for anyone unfamiliar to investments, tax liens, and how tax auctions actually work. - MuriydFuller,An Amazon reader, June 5, 20185 Stars: Good book! Very insightful. - Howard, Amazon reader, January 5, 2019 IN RICH DAD POOR DAD YOU FIRST LEARNED ABOUT THIS BOOK. NOW READ THE BOOK AND START COLLECTING HIGH INTEREST PAYMENTS!. Like millions of others, you are probably wondering where to put your money in these low interest times. Money market funds, banks, and savings and loans are paying less than 5% interest. After taxes and inflation, a 5% return leaves you nothing at all. .Eager for higher yields, you may be considering joining millions of others who are rushing into an already overpriced stock market. Or you may be considering buying bonds, options, or more exotic instruments that may one day cost you some or most of your principal..There is an alternative. An investment that will allow you to reap ultra-high yields. An investment that will allow you to sleep at night. An investment you can get into with very little money. An investment that is fun. I wrote this book to introduce you to that investment, known as tax lien certificates. .Tax lien certificates are not some new invention of a brokerage. They are issued by over 1,000 local governments in a majority of states. Banks, savings and loans, and many knowledgeable investors hold them. Now its your turn to find out about them, and your turn to profit from them..Frankly, Im excited for you. You are in for a wonderful, profitable discovery and I am delighted to be your guide and companion..Joel MoskowitzJoel S. Moskowitz is an attorney specializing in environmental law. He has argued before the United States Supreme Court, the California Supreme Court, and several courts of appeal. From the Inside Flap About $15 billion in property taxes goes unpaid every year in the United States. When these taxes are not paid, a tax lien is put on the property. In many states, local governments allow investors like you to pay these overdue taxes. This gives them the money they need right away for their police and firemen and all the other functions of government..And what do you get? Your investment seldom amounts to more than 1-3% of the value of the property, so if youve taken the steps outlined in this book, your investment should be secure. And when the lien is paid, you get your money back, plus all the interest penalties the government collects, which can be 5%- 36%, depending on the laws of the state. About the Author Joel S. Moskowitz is an attorney specializing in environmental law. He has argued before the United States Supreme Court, the California Supreme Court, and several courts of appeal...

-Titulo Original : 100 Tricks To Appear Smart In Meetings How To Get By Without Even Trying-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: Funny because its true. Comedian, star of the Netflix special Everythings Fine, and Trump lip-syncing sensation Sarah Cooper presents the must-have book you never knew you needed, 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings. In it, you will learn how to appear smart in less than half the time it takes to actually learn anything.You know those subtle tricks your coworkers are all guilty of? The constant nodding, pretend concentration, useless rhetorical questions? These tricks make them seem like they know what they’re doing when in fact they have no clue. This behavior is so ingrained, so subtle, and so often mistaken for true intelligence that identifying it, calling it out, or compiling it into an exhaustive digest has never been attempted. Until now.Complete with illustrated tips, examples, and scenarios, 100 Tricks gives you actionable ways to use words like “actionable,” in order to sound smart. Every type of meeting is covered, from general meetings where you stopped paying attention almost immediately, to one-on-one meetings you zoned out on, to impromptu meetings you were painfully subjected to at the last minute. It’s all here.Open this book to any page and find an easy-to-digest trick with an even easier-to-digest illustration, guiding you on:how to nail the big meeting by pacing and noddingmost effective ways to listen to your coworkers while still completely ignoring themthe key to making your presentations “interactive.”If you hadn’t noticed these behaviors before, you will see them now-from your colleagues, your managers, and soon yourself. Each trick is a mirror to the reality of what happens in meetings, told in the form of hilariously bad advice-advice that you might just want to take. But probably not. But maybe.Sly satire that will bring endless joy to anyone who has ever endured the drudgery of corporate life.a€*Dan Lyons, writer for HBOs Silicon Valley and New York Times-bestselling author of Disrupted Review Cleverly written and illustrated, 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings is sly satire that will bring endless joy to anyone who has ever endured the drudgery of corporate life. Dan Lyons, writer for HBOs Silicon Valley and New York Times-bestselling author of DisruptedA hilarious, enlightening read for anyone whos ever been stuck in a conference room. With delightful snark and sarcasm, Sarah cleverly skewers our coworkers for ridiculous behaviors that we would never, ever do. Its funny because its true. Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York Times-bestselling author of Originals and Give and TakeI laughed so hard I had to leave the meeting I was in. Jake Knapp, New York Times-bestselling author of SprintSarah Cooper is uncannily spot on when describing the seemingly innocent behaviors of people attempting to impress others. Itll make you literally LOL. Christine Tsai, Founding Partner, 500 Startups About the Author Sarah Cooper is a writer, comedian, speaker and author of the bestselling book, 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings. She built her comedy career in between working for companies like ! and Google, where, as a user experience designer, she was fed free lunches and lots of material. She is the creator of satirical blog TheCooperReview , which attracts millions of readers around the world and has been featured in The Washington Post, Forbes, Fast Company and countless other publications. Sarah lives in New York City...

-Titulo Original : How To Be Successful Without Hurting Mens Feelings Non-threatening Leadership Strategies For Women-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: Comedian, star of the Netflix special Everythings Fine, and Trump lip-syncing sensation Sarah Cooper illustrates how women can achieve their dreams, succeed in their careers, and become leaders, all without harming the fragile male ego.Ambitious women are so scary. In this fast-paced business world, female leaders need to make sure they’re not perceived as pushy, aggressive, or competent. Chapters include, among others, “9 Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women,” How to Ace Your Job Interview Without Over-acing It, and “Choose Your Own Adventure: Do You Want to Be Likable or Successful?” It even includes several pages to doodle on while men finish what theyre saying. Each chapter also features an exercise with a set of inaction items designed to challenge women to be less challenging.And, when all else fails, a set of wearable mustaches is included to allow women to seem more man-like. This will cancel out any need to change their leadership style. In fact, it may even lead to a quick promotion! Review ... One of the hottest comics of the coronavirus era. (Los Angeles Times)“Sarah Cooper Might Be the Best Trump Impressionist Ever. (The Daily Beast)“Sarah Cooper is killing it with her Trump lip-syncs.” (Boing Boing) About the Author Sarah Cooper is a writer, comedian, speaker and author of the bestselling book, 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings. She built her comedy career in between working as a user experience designer for companies like ! and Google, where she was fed free lunches and lots of material. She is the creator of satirical blog TheCooperReview , which attracts millions of readers around the world and has been featured in The Washington Post, Forbes, Fast Company and countless other publications. Sarah lives in New York City with this guy named Jeff...

-Titulo Original : Teen-proofing Fostering Responsible Decision Making In Your Teenager (volume 10)-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: John Rosemond is a renowned child psychologist who has helped millions of parents learn to raise their children and remain sane.In Teen-Proofing, now available in paperback, he tackles the challenges of raising a teenager with his trademark user-friendly, humorous, and commonsense style. Rosemond lays out a perfectly sound and logical case for recognizing the realities of the teen-parent relationship, forming the foundation, and parenting with the Long Rope Principle. In short, the author demonstrates how Mom and Dad can avoid the pitfalls of becoming dictatorial Control Freaks, skirt the potholes of turning into permissive Wimps, and enjoy the freedom and rewards of parenting in a controlled (but not controlling) and relaxed manner. Teenagers, Rosemond readily admits, can be a challenge. But infusing young adults with a sense of personal responsibility, then showing them the results of good and bad choices, is a goal every parent can achieve. Review Parents can protect toddlers--with their maximum mobility and minimum logic--by pasting plastic on electrical outlets and putting poisons out of reach. But protecting teenagers is not so simple, says family psychologist and author of Raising a Nonviolent Child John Rosemond. Short of solitary confinement, you cant guarantee that a teen wont use drugs, shoplift, drink or crash the car. In the final analysis, teens must protect themselves. Rosemonds Teen-Proofing provides parents with tough-love strategies for managing teens so they make self-protective, rather than self-destructive, decisions. Many parents will recognize the error of their ways in Rosemonds portraits of parents as micro-managers who try to control their children and wimps who let their children control them. He offers a compelling alternative by urging parents to be mentors, who realize they can control the parent-child relationship, but not the child. The author explores critical parent-teen issues including curfews, cash, cars, and cohorts--detailing an approach that gives teenagers a long rope to make their own mistakes and also offers creative consequences to encourage responsible decision making. The author offers smart and seasoned advice--from coping with middle school tweenagers to understanding why teens are vulnerable and how the culture diminishes a parents influence. Yet he undermines his clarity with snide asides about mental health professionals and one too many smug and self-congratulatory examples of his own parenting of a son and daughter. These distractions are unnecessary; the books unconventional and provocative suggestions will speak volumes to parents of teens. --Barbara Mackoff About the Author ?John Rosemond is a family psychologist who has directed mental-health programs and been in full-time private practice working with families and children. Since 1990, he has devoted his time to speaking and writing. Rosemonds weekly syndicated parenting column now appears in some 250 newspapers, and he has written 15 best-selling books on parenting and the family. He is one of the busiest and most popular speakers in the field, giving more than 200 talks a year to parent and professional groups nationwide. He and his wife of 39 years, Willie, have two grown children and six well-behaved grandchildren...

-Titulo Original : Tomatoland, Third Edition From Harvest Of Shame To Harvest Of Hope-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: Three-time James Beard Award-winner Barry Estabrook’s completely revised third edition of his hard-hitting 2011 expose, Tomatoland, includes a new foreword by Eric Schlosser and four new chapters with startling updates. Four entirely new chapters take up where the current edition leaves off to tell the story behind what president Bill Clinton calls “the most astonishing thing politically in the world we’re living in today.” Estabrook reveals how a rag-tag group of migrant tomato pickers in Florida convinced the world’s largest restaurant chains and food retailers to join forces to create a model for labor justice, and then took the necessary steps to make sure that the model really works, not only in Florida, but around the world. The book includes a new foreword by journalist and author Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation). About the Author Youthful stints doing slug labor on a Midwestern dairy farm (hot!) and being tossed about on a commercial fishing boat off Nova Scotia (frigid!) taught Estabrook that writing about how food is produced is a hell of a lot easier than actually producing it. For several blissful years, he received a steady paycheck from the late, lamented Gourmet magazine. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Eating Well, Smithsonian, Reader’s Digest, Saveur, Epicurious, OnEarth, and AtlanticLife . He also blogs at politicsoftheplate . He has won the prestigious Migrant Justice Award and three James Beard Awards and lives on a 30-acre plot in Vermont where he putters around in a large vegetable garden (a great place for a procrastinating writer), tends a small flock of laying hens, makes maple syrup, and brews some of the vilest hard cider on the planet....

-Titulo Original : Tomatoland How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: Based on a James Beard award-winning article from a leading voice on the politics of agribusiness, Tomatoland combines history, legend, passion for taste, and investigative reporting on modern agribusiness and environmental issues into a revealing, controversial look at the tomato, the fruit we love so much that we eat $4 billion-worth annually. 2012 IACP Award Winner in the Food Matters category Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But in Tomatoland, which is based on his James Beard Award-winning article, The Price of Tomatoes, investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry. Fields are sprayed with more than one hundred different herbicides and pesticides. Tomatoes are picked hard and green and artificially gassed until their skins acquire a marketable hue. Modern plant breeding has tripled yields, but has also produced fruits with dramatically reduced amounts of calcium, vitamin A, and vitamin C, and tomatoes that have fourteen times more sodium than the tomatoes our parents enjoyed. The relentless drive for low costs has fostered a thriving modern-day slave trade in the United States. How have we come to this point? Estabrook traces the supermarket tomato from its birthplace in the deserts of Peru to the impoverished town of Immokalee, Florida, a.k.a. the tomato capital of the United States. He visits the laboratories of seedsmen trying to develop varieties that can withstand the rigors of agribusiness and still taste like a garden tomato, and then moves on to commercial growers who operate on tens of thousands of acres, and eventually to a hillside field in Pennsylvania, where he meets an obsessed farmer who produces delectable tomatoes for the nations top restaurants. Throughout Tomatoland, Estabrook presents a whos who cast of characters in the tomato industry: the avuncular octogenarian whose conglomerate grows one out of every eight tomatoes eaten in the United States; the ex-Marine who heads the group that dictates the size, color, and shape of every tomato shipped out of Florida; the U.S. attorney who has doggedly prosecuted human traffickers for the past decade; and the Guatemalan peasant who came north to earn money for his parents medical bills and found himself enslaved for two years. Tomatoland reads like a suspenseful whodunit as well as an expose of todays agribusiness systems and the price we pay as a society when we take taste and thought out of our food purchases. Review In this eye-opening expose, Vermont journalist Estabrook traces the sad, tasteless life of the mass-produced tomato, from its chemical-saturated beginnings in south Florida to far-flung supermarkets. Expanding on his 2010 James Beard Award-winning article in Gourmet magazine, Estabrook first looks at the tomatos ancestors in Peru, grown naturally in coastal deserts and Andean foothills, with fruit the size of large peas. Crossbreeding produced bigger, juicier varieties, and by the late 19th century, Florida had muscled in on the U.S. market, later benefiting from the embargo on Cuban tomatoes; the Sunshine State now produces one-third of the fresh tomatoes in this country. To combat sandy soil devoid of nutrients, and weather that breeds at least 27 insect species and 29 diseases that prey on the plants, Florida growers bombard tomato plants with a dizzying cocktail of herbicides and pesticides, then gas the mature greens (fruit plucked so early from the vines that they bounce without a scratch) with ethylene. Behind the scenes, moreover, there exists a horrendous culture of exploitation of Hispanic laborers in places like Immokalee, where pesticide exposure has led to birth defects and long-term medical ailments. Estabrook concludes this thought-provoking book with some ideas from inn...

-Titulo Original : How To Be Perfectly Unhappy-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: Matthew Inman-Eisner Award-winning creator of The Oatmeal and #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You-serves yet another helping of thoughtful hilarity in this charming, illustrated gift book for anyone who is irked by the question: Are you happy? In How To Be Perfectly Unhappy, Inman explores the surprising benefits of forgetting about “happiness,” and embracing instead the meaningful activities that keep us busy and interested and fascinated. About the Author Matthew Inman is the Eisner Award-winning creator of The Oatmeal and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You. Matthew also co-created the popular Exploding Kittens card game. Since being founded in 2009, his work on TheOatmeal has been read by over 300 million people...

-Titulo Original : The Book Of Onions Comics To Make You Cry Laughing And Cry Crying-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: The Book of Onions is a collection of darkly funny comics from Jake Thompson, creator of the celebrated bi-weekly webcomic Jake Likes Onions. Ranging from the relatable to the utterly nonsensical and bizarre, The Book of Onions focuses on themes of loneliness, desperation, and failure. And misplaced optimism. And perverted talking fruit. Sort of like Gary Larson’s “The Far Side,” if Gary were way less accomplished and suffered from depression. Review “Witty, subtle, and surreal, these comics look like they were drawn by a time-traveling Victorian caricaturist with a strange mind and a keen eye for the oddities of modern life.” (Reza Farazmand, creator of Poorly Drawn Lines) “Deranged, beautiful, hilarious, and poignant, Jake Likes Onions is one of my absolute favorite comics.” (Matthew Inman, Eisner Award-winning creator of The Oatmeal and #1 New York Times bestselling author) Jakes gags sting. And they have many layers. And they stay with you for quite a while. All very much like the eponymous vegetable. (Nicholas Gurewitch, The Perry Bible Fellowship) About the Author Jake Thompson is a 29-year-old advertising copywriter who lives in Minneapolis. Back in 2015, he created an feed titled “Jake Likes Onions” to express his strange and depressing sense of humor. Over the course of 2 years, the comic has become one of those viral Internet things that’s shared and followed all over the planet. Pretty cool...

-Titulo Original : Loserpalooza A Get Fuzzy Treasury (volume 9)-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: On the Media calls Darby Conley the most successful cartoonist of the new generation. --National Public Radio * More than one million Get Fuzzy books have been sold-and the three most recent books have been New York Times best-sellers. Loserpalooza is the third treasury, collecting strips from New York Times best-sellers and . Loserpalooza is Darby Conleys latest look at the interspecies antics of his wildly popular characters Bucky, Satchel, and Rob. At the center of this not-so-warm-and-fuzzy arrangement is Rob Wilco, a single, mild-mannered ad exec. Bucky is Robs temperamental, buck-toothed Siamese cat with a penchant for mischief, a hatred of ferrets, and a love of rubber bands. Satchel is a sweet but naive shar-pei-yellow-Lab mix who haplessly ends up on the receiving end of Buckys wayward schemes. An entertaining critique on popular culture and a bona fide hit, Get Fuzzy was named Best Comic Strip of the year in 2002 by the National Cartoonists Society and now appears in more than 400 newspapers worldwide. About the Author Get Fuzzy first appeared in newspapers in 1999. Darby Conley lives in Boston, with four cats and three boxes of Band-Aids...

-Titulo Original : Bird Brain Comics About Mental Health, Starring Pigeons-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: Bird Brain is a collection of brutally honest, brilliantly weird comics exploring what it’s like to live with mental illness . . . using pigeons. When Chuck Mullin began experiencing anxiety and depression as a teenager, she started drawing comics to help her make sense of the rollercoaster. Eventually, she found that pigeons-lovably quirky, yet universally reviled creatures-were the ideal subjects of a comic about mental illness. Organized in three sections-Bad Times, Relationships, and Positivity-and featuring several short essays about the author’s experiences, Bird Brain is a highly relatable, chuckle-inducing, and ultimately uplifting collection of comics for anyone who has struggled to maintain their mental health. About the Author Chuck Mullin is a cartoonist living and working in London. When she was around 17 years old, she began to experience anxiety and depression. It’s taken a few years of self-reflection and a hefty amount of self-loathing, but she’s finally at a point where she’s comfortable talking about it openly. She has what some may call an excessive adoration for pigeons...

-Titulo Original : Wildly Foxtrot A Foxtrot Treasury (volume 12)-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: The humor and appeal of FoxTrot derive from the interaction of its characters, not from silly events imposed from without. -Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes Everyone with a brother or sister knows about sibling rivalry, but when it involves Peter, Paige, and Jason Fox, the chaos that ensues is hilariously one of a kind. In Bill Amends comic strip, FoxTrot, the three kids continuously push each others buttons while parents Roger and Andy try somehow to keep up. Amends insightful peek inside the Fox family provides fans with recognition and laughs. Wildly FoxTrot featuers all the cartoons (including full-color Sundays) from the best-sellers, and , and includes a special illustrated story. Universal Press Syndicate newspaper feature: * Authors web site: About the Author Bill Amend was named Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year by the National Cartoonists Society in 2007. He creates FoxTrot cartoons for Sunday newspapers and maintains an online presence at foxtrot . He lives in the Midwest...

-Titulo Original : The Birth Of Canis A Get Fuzzy Collection (volume 19)-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: Welcome to the crazy, dysfunctional world of Get Fuzzy. In this microcosm of nerdy vegan Rob Wilcos apartment life abide his sociopathic cat Bucky and his guileless but often perceptive dog Satchel (and, yes, they are named after famed Negro Leagues baseball players). Their interactions and domestic repartee not only appeals to pet lovers but also to any cartoon fan who gets a kick out of the idiosyncrasies of life between any co-dwellers. Bucky, Satchel, and Rob are back for more madness and mayhem. And the world couldnt be happier! Darby Conleys previous titles include two New York Times best-sellers. Bucky Katt is a rather obstinate Siamese who constantly battles his owner Rob for control of their home. Satchel Pooch, the Labrador-Shar-pei mix whos sweet and lovable, makes a nice lackey for Bucky. Bucky knows hes smarter than everyone else; its just a matter of convincing the rest of the world. Satchel always tries to do the right thing but very often ends up the brunt of Buckys antics. Rob Wilco is a bachelor trying to regain household domesticity. Together, this seemingly typical threesome gets into some less-than-typical but hilarious situations. Theres never a dull moment at the Wilco residence. Get Fuzzy, featured in over 650 newspapers worldwide, is one of the most highly lauded cartoons in the country. The National Cartoonists Society named it Best Comic Strip of 2002. Its sidesplitting humor and hilariously illustrated facial nuances appeal to animal lovers everywhere. Bucky and Satchels words and expressions are what we all picture our beloved pets saying and doing. About the Author Get Fuzzy first appeared in newspapers in 1999. Darby Conley lives in Boston, with four cats and three boxes of Band-Aids...

-Titulo Original : The Adventures Of Superfish And His Superfishal Friends The Twenty-third Shermans Lagoon Collection (volume 23)-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: “I was the only one rooting for the shark in Jaws,” author Jim Toomey. Shermans Lagoon is a fantasy place situated somewhere in the tropics. Its inhabited by a motley crew of sea creatures, whose marine lives suspiciously mirror our own. Through his comic strip, cartoonist Jim Toomey explores many of the issues that we face daily in our world on dry land. His characters attempt new business ventures, go on disastrous dates, try fad diets, and read the latest best-selling books. Shermans Lagoon appeals to adults and children alike. Children, preteens, and teens enjoy its underwater theme and the sometimes rough-and-tumble world of life in the ocean. Adults enjoy the social commentary that is a common thread in the strip. ?There is also an educational aspect to the strip that gives it a unique place in the comics. Toomey explores environmental themes in a light, apolitical way. And, he takes his characters on road trips, where they explore different parts of the ocean and meet native animals along the way. About the Author Jim Toomey was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia. He launched Shermans Lagoon in 1991 and was picked up by Creators Syndicate later that year. An engineer, a philosopher, a surfer, a scuba diver, and a sailor, Toomey lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with his wife and daughter. He has been twice awarded the Environmental Hero Award, given by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for using art and humor to conserve and protect our marine heritage. Online: slagoon...

-Titulo Original : Pearls Hogs The Road A Pearls Before Swine Treasury (volume 27)-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: Move over! Pearls Before Swine is back and badder than ever in the new treasury collection Pearls Hogs the Road. The Pearls gang returns with characteristically misanthropic humor (but with more leather): no self-aggrandizing is too flagrant for Rat, no subject is too erudite for Goat, and no sensory input is too basic for Pig. All topics are fair game for Stephan Pastis and his brass-knuckle punch lines. Comic strip censors, apathetic baristas, and IRS employees are all strongly advised to laugh or get out of the way. Pearls Hogs the Road also features three comic strips illustrated by the legendary Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes, who ended a 19-year hiatus from the comics page to collaborate with Pastis. Review If you like puns, self-deprecating humor, and comics that break the fourth wall, Pearls Before Swine should be on your shelf. Or-- in our case-- always on the dining table, open to whatever page my daughters happen to be on. (GeekDad) About the Author Stephan Pastis is an attorney turned cartoonist. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and the UCLA School of Law, he worked as a lawyer before trying his hand at cartooning. Pastis lives in the Bay Area with his wife and two children...

-Titulo Original : Your Life Is A Life Of Hope! Thoughts On Things That Make Life Worth Living-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: What makes life worth living? If you ask Lord Birthday, the answer is visor hats. And lighthouses. And the stranger who gave him a half-eaten panini on the bus the other day. In Your Life Is a Life of Hope!, the Internet’s favorite mustachioed king presents a series of short, illustrated essays in which he argues for hope by way of absurdity and transcendence by way of the mundane. In his signature childlike, dryly humorous style, Lord Birthday explores the things that make life so great, including jackets and bags and “booping someone on the nose.” Both strange and strangely moving, this collection will delight fans and newcomers alike. Review This book is very funny and gave me more hope than a grilled cheese sandwich, which is saying a LOT. (Roz Chast, cartoonist for the New Yorker and author of CANT WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT?) This book of essays and drawings is deep, deeply funny, and strangely true. Im very grateful that Lord Birthday exists. (Liana Finck, cartoonist for the New Yorker and author of PASSING FOR HUMAN) This book has turned my curvy heart inside out. To enter Lord Birthdays fever dream is to feel . . . say it with me . . . alive! (Catherine Cohen, comedian) Do we really need hope right now? Im not sure! Things really are going great! Regardless, if things ever do get bad, you can turn to this book and be reminded of all the little things that make life worth living . . . or at least laugh a little. Whatever helps. (Jenn Wasner, musician and founding member of Wye Oak) About the Author Chad Murphy is a father, college professor, failed baseball person, and former Mormon. He created Lord Birthday in 2015 as an anonymous outlet for his newly discovered absurdist streak. His unconventional biography was featured on NPR’s Invisibilia in 2017. Lord Birthday quickly gained traction on social media, leading him to focus on list-based comics, and now, short-short essays. His first book, How to Appear Normal at Social Events, was published in March 2018. ...

-Titulo Original : Binge Parenting A Baby Blues Collection-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: Baby Blues is a pitch-perfect and hilarious family-oriented comic strip that typifies modern parenting. In this chronological collection, readers get a close-up view inside the home of the MacPhersons, a perfectly normal family with perfectly chaotic lives. Daryl and Wanda are deep in the trenches of childrearing and earning their stripes as parents to Zoe, Hammie, and Wren. Baby Blues expertly illustrates why Band-Aids remain in short supply, tattling and teasing lead to time-outs, and an unplanned visit to the dentist or auto mechanic occurs just when the bills seem to be caught up. Baby Blues transcends the comic page by fusing the award-winning imaginations of Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott with familiar family life. Inside this annotated collection, Kirkman and Scott intuitively balance the humorous with the poignant though relatable and sometimes all-too-familiar parenting scenes. About the Author Rick Kirkmans work on Baby Blues has delighted fans and wowed the cartooning world since he launched the strip with Jerry Scott in 1990. Rick lives in Phoenix, Arizona. ?Online: babyblues Jerry Scott is the co-creator of the award-winning comic strip Zits. He lives in central coastal California. Jerrys work on Baby Blues has delighted fans and wowed the cartooning world since he launched the strip with Rick Kirkman in 1990. ...

-Titulo Original : Fresh For 01... You Suckas A Boondocks Collection-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: The Boondocks is a rich, multilayered comic strip that offers a frank yet often funny look at race in America. It starts with a simple premise: Two young boys, Riley and Huey, move from inner-city Chicago to live with their grandfather in the suburbs. The tension increases, however, because the two boys are African-Americans now compelled to adapt to a white suburban world. They must take all theyve learned in the hood and apply it to life in the burbs. Superbly illustrated, The Boondocks has stirred controversy, attracted widespread media coverage, and won readers whove applauded McGruders unapologetic and humorous approach to race. In this second collection of Boondocks cartoons, readers can get another look at this innovative strip. About the Author McGruder has become a widely heard and respected commentator on race, politics, and entertainment. The cartoonist was born in Chicago but grew up in racially diverse Columbia, Maryland. The Boondocks first saw print in the student newspaper at the University of Maryland where he majored in Afro-American studies...

-Titulo Original : Happy As A Clam The Twenty-first Shermans Lagoon Collection (volume 21)-Fabricante : Andrews McMeel Publishing-Descripcion Original: Join Sherman, the lovable shark, and his aquatic cohorts in the comfy environs of Shermans Lagoon. Sharks have always fascinated Jim Toomey. “I was the only one rooting for the shark in Jaws,” he says. Sherman’s Lagoon fans don’t just root for the dim-witted Sherman, they devour his books by the net-full. This is the latest collection of the popular strip, which takes a satirical, sea-floor look at modern culture through the eyes of Sherman , his sidekick sea turtle friend Fillmore, and schools of other coral reef critters in their remote tropical paradise. About the Author Jim Toomey was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia. He launched Shermans Lagoon in 1991 and was picked up by Creators Syndicate later that year. An engineer, a philosopher, a surfer, a scuba diver, and a sailor, Toomey lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with his wife and daughter. He has been twice awarded the Environmental Hero Award, given by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for using art and humor to conserve and protect our marine heritage. Online: slagoon...