Life comic books issue 1

Tenth Printing. Naughty "Alice" Edition Virgin Cover by Mike DeBalfo. Story by Jim E. Noble and Giovanni Borunda. Art by Alfret Le.

Tenth Printing. Naughty Edition Virgin Cover by Mike DeBalfo. Story by Jim E. Noble and Giovanni Borunda. Art by Alfret Le.

Tenth Printing. Goblin Cards exclusive "Bowsette Lingerie Edition" Virgin cover by Shikarii Shambu. Story by Jim E. Noble and Giovanni Borunda. Art by Alfret Le.

Add to cart CGC 9.9 $119.99 or Best Offer View scans Paper: White Tenth Printing/Goblin Cards Edition D. Label #4492100009 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Tenth Printing. Goblin Cards Exclusive "Kim Possible Nude Edition" Virgin cover by Shikarii Shambu. Story by Jim E. Noble and Giovanni Borunda. Art by Alfret Le.

Tenth Printing. Goblin Cards and Collectibles exclusive Valentine's Witch Foil cover by Shikarii. Story by Jim E. Noble and Giovanni Borunda. Art by Alfret Le. 16 pages, full color, adults only.

Tenth Printing. Goblin Cards and Collectibles exclusive Valentine's Witch Lingerie Edition cover by Shikarii Shambu. Story by Jim E. Noble and Giovanni Borunda. Art by Alfret Le.

Tenth Printing. Metal Edition Morgan Nichole Virgin Photo Cover. Story by Jim E. Noble and Giovanni Borunda. Art by Alfret Le.

Tenth Printing. Metal Edition Morgan Nichole Virgin Photo Cover. Story by Jim E. Noble and Giovanni Borunda. Art by Alfret Le.

Tenth Printing. Naughty Edition Virgin Cover by Mya Terak. Story by Jim E. Noble and Giovanni Borunda. Art by Alfret Le.

Tenth Printing. Goblin Cards Exclusive "Milf White- Show White" Topless Tattooed Edition Virgin cover by Shikarii Shambu. Story by Jim E. Noble and Giovanni Borunda. Art by Alfret Le.

Reprint. Variant Cover by Stef Wilson - limited to 60 copies. Story by Jim E. Noble and Giovanni Borunda. Art by Alfret Le. 12 pages. Full Color. NOTE: Generic image is of a signed copy, this does not necessarily reflect all copies.

Fourth Printing. Get Lucky Foil cover by Stef Wilson and Kerry Anne. Story by Jim E. Noble and Giovanni Borunda. Art by Alfret Le.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $149.95 or Best Offer View scans 1.5" Spine split from bottom. Cover and first two wraps detached at one staple. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Classic romance comics with stories and art by the Iger Shop. When a seaboard accident brings two people together, Ted and Ann are left out in the cold. A woman wonders if she'll regret her marriage, but she goes through with it anyway. A couple claims to be happy, but one of them isn't being completely honest. The Lonely Ones; I Asked for It!; Agnes Wilson Lovelorn Advisor; Repent in Haste, Marry at Leisure; Happiness is Meant for Two! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

1st printing.

Story and art by Carl Barks. Foreword by George Lucas. Afterword by Gary Kurtz.

Long before DuckTales (woo-ooh), Uncle Scrooge was getting into all kinds of harrowing situations and hair-raising adventures. This magnificent tomb features some the best!

Featuring a biography of the man behind the Disney Ducks - Carl Barks.

Hardcover with slipcase, 9 1/2-in. x 12 1/2-in., 376 pages, full color.

Limited Leatherbound Edition - Includes Art Print

1st printing.

Story and art by Carl Barks. Foreword by George Lucas. Afterword by Gary Kurtz. End Paper Art by Walter Simonson.

Long before DuckTales (woo-ooh), Uncle Scrooge was getting into all kinds of harrowing situations and hair-raising adventures. This magnificent tomb features some the best! Featuring a biography of the man behind the Disney Ducks - Carl Barks.

Includes a limited signed edition Art Print.

Hardcover (Leatherbound), 9 1/2-in. x 12 1/2-in., 374 pages, full color.

NOTE: Limited to 5,000 copies.

1st printing. Missing slipcase.

Story and art by Carl Barks. Foreword by George Lucas. Afterword by Gary Kurtz.

Long before DuckTales (woo-ooh), Uncle Scrooge was getting into all kinds of harrowing situations and hair-raising adventures. This magnificent tomb features some the best!

Featuring a biography of the man behind the Disney Ducks - Carl Barks.

Hardcover missing slipcase, 9 1/2-in. x 12 1/2-in., 376 pages, full color.

Add to cart Very Fine $14.00

1st printing. By Rod Espinoza. Charles Dickens's holiday classic, A Christmas Carol, is given a fresh twist-with a female Scrooge! Rod Espinosa (The Courageous Princess) adapts and illustrates this story of the miserly Eliza Scrooge, who is visited by the ghosts of the past, present, and future on one fateful Christmas eve. Hardcover, 7-in. x 10-in., 100 pages, full color. Cover price $19.99.

Add to cart Fine $3.00

Written by Heather Moore. Illustrated by Ken Cursoe. 16 Pages, Full Color.

1st printing. By Yoshihiro Tatsumi. This is the epic autobiography of manga pioneer and Tezuka Award-winner Yoshihiro Tatsumi. The early praise is in! Heralded by The New York Times as "...one of this genre's signal achievements..." and by The Onion as "one of the most significant works the medium has ever produced." Softcover, Softcover, 856 pages, B&W. Cover price $29.95.

2nd and later printings. By Yoshihiro Tatsumi. The 856-page epic autobiography of manga pioneer and Tezuka Award-winner Yoshihiro Tatsumi is already back in a second printing only weeks after its initial release. The early praise is in! Heralded by The New York Times as "...one of this genre's signal achievements..." and by The Onion as "one of the most significant works the medium has ever produced." Softcover, 856 pages, B&W. Cover price $29.95.

Kitchen Sink Edition - 1st printing. Story and art by Will Eisner. Set during the Depression, A LIFE FORCE tells the hard-luck story of a tenement dweller living in the same neighborhood that served the setting for A CONTRACT WITH GOD. Eisner's everyman, Jacob Shtarkah, and his family and neighbors come to life in this moving urban portrait. Softcover, 144 pages, B&W. NOTE: "A LIFE FORCE is easily the best realistic graphic novel I've ever read." - Don Thompson, Comics Buyer's Guide Cover price $10.95.

Kitchen Sink Edition - 2nd and later printings. Story and art by Will Eisner. Set during the Depression, A LIFE FORCE tells the hard-luck story of a tenement dweller living in the same neighborhood that served the setting for A CONTRACT WITH GOD. Eisner's everyman, Jacob Shtarkah, and his family and neighbors come to life in this moving urban portrait. Softcover, 144 pages, B&W. NOTE: "A LIFE FORCE is easily the best realistic graphic novel I've ever read." - Don Thompson, Comics Buyer's Guide Cover price $10.95.

DC Edition - 1st printing. Story and art by Will Eisner. Set during the Depression, A LIFE FORCE tells the hard-luck story of a tenement dweller living in the same neighborhood that served the setting for A CONTRACT WITH GOD. Eisner's everyman, Jacob Shtarkah, and his family and neighbors come to life in this moving urban portrait. Softcover, 144 pages, B&W. Cover price $12.95.

W.W. Norton Edition - 1st printing. Story and art by Will Eisner. Called a "masterpiece" by R. Crumb, A Life Force chronicles not only the Great Depression but also the rise of Nazism and the spread of socialist politics through the depiction of the protagonist, Jacob Shtarkah, whose existential search mirrors Eisner's own lifelong struggle. Softcover, 144 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.95.

Print on Demand Edition

Print on Demand Edition - Story and art by Will Eisner. Hailed as a "masterpiece" by Robert Crumb, A LIFE FORCE chronicles not only the Great Depression but also the rise of Nazism and the spread of socialist politics through the depiction of the protagonist, Jacob Shtarkah, whose existential search mirrors Eisner's own lifelong struggle. Softcover, 150 pages, B&W. Cover price $32.50.

1st printing. Since 1955, when his work began enlivening the pages of MAD magazine, Al Jaffee has pickled three generations of American kids in the brine of satire—and he continues to bring millions of childhoods to untimely ends with the knowledge that parents are hypocrites, teachers are dummies, politicians are liars, and life isnt fair. Jaffee has a life story that is truly bizarre, that reads like a comic strip of traumatic cliff-hangers with cartoons by Jaffee and captions by Freud—from his traumatic childhood as a reverse immigrant to finding his adult place at the forefront of a movement that would forever change the face of humor and cartooning in America. Softcover, 226 pages, text with PC/ PB&W illustrations. Cover price $16.99.

1st printing. Written by Mark Schultz and Sergio Aragonés. Art by Al Williamson. Al Williamson's Flash Gordon: A Lifelong Vision of the Heroic collects all the major works of the artist featuring Flash Gordon - Williamson's legendary King Comics stories from the 1960s, the 1980 adaptation of the Universal Flash Gordon motion picture, and the Marvel Comics miniseries of 1994. In addition, the volume features Williamson's Flash drawings done for commercial illustration and prints, his assists on the Flash Gordon comic strip, a variety of images for amateur publications, and a selection of largely unpublished images spanning his interest in the character from childhood to the conclusion of his career. Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 256 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $29.95.

1st printing.

Written by Richard K. Morgan and Scott Bryan Wilson. and cover by Max Fuchs.

From the world of the best-selling trilogy of books and the hit Netflix show comes a new chapter in the ALTERED CARBON universe! In the future, bodies can be changed like clothes, giving life an entirely new meaning-or lack of meaning.

Takeshi Kovacs-once a member of the Envoy Corps, the elite, deadly troops of the Interstellar Earth Protectorate-now finds himself imprisoned . . . both in a jail and in an extremely weak body. When he learns that Envoys he served with in a battle he somehow can't remember have been stolen and sold to one of the richest people in the universe, Kovacs vows to rescue them and get revenge. Leaving behind a staggering body count as he blazes across the galaxy, he wonders why he has a hole in his memory . . . and what secrets that gap holds for understanding his future and himself.

ALTERED CARBON writer/creator RICHARD K. MORGAN is joined by writer SCOTT BRYAN WILSON (Batman Annual, Batman: Gotham Nights) and artist MAX FUCHS (Halcyon Days) to deliver the original graphic novel ALTERED CARBON: ONE LIFE, ONE DEATH, a violent, galaxy-spanning adventure of prison breaks, political intrigue, and sinister machinations.

Hardcover, 120 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Signed Edition

1st printing.

Written by Richard K. Morgan and Scott Bryan Wilson. and cover by Max Fuchs.

From the world of the best-selling trilogy of books and the hit Netflix show comes a new chapter in the ALTERED CARBON universe! In the future, bodies can be changed like clothes, giving life an entirely new meaning-or lack of meaning.

Takeshi Kovacs-once a member of the Envoy Corps, the elite, deadly troops of the Interstellar Earth Protectorate-now finds himself imprisoned . . . both in a jail and in an extremely weak body. When he learns that Envoys he served with in a battle he somehow can't remember have been stolen and sold to one of the richest people in the universe, Kovacs vows to rescue them and get revenge. Leaving behind a staggering body count as he blazes across the galaxy, he wonders why he has a hole in his memory . . . and what secrets that gap holds for understanding his future and himself.

ALTERED CARBON writer/creator RICHARD K. MORGAN is joined by writer SCOTT BRYAN WILSON (Batman Annual, Batman: Gotham Nights) and artist MAX FUCHS (Halcyon Days) to deliver the original graphic novel ALTERED CARBON: ONE LIFE, ONE DEATH, a violent, galaxy-spanning adventure of prison breaks, political intrigue, and sinister machinations.

Hardcover, 120 pages, full color.

Cover price $39.99.

1st printing. Collects The Amazing Spider-Man (1963-1998 1st Series) #381-393, The Amazing Spider-Man (1963-1998 1st Series) Annual #28, Spider-Man (1990-1998) #45, The Spectacular Spider-Man (1976-1998 1st Series) #211, Web of Spider-Man (1985-1995 1st Series) #112, and The Amazing Spider-Man Ashcan (1994).

Cover by Mark Bagley and Larry Mahlstedt. Back Cover by Mark Bagley and Randy Emberlin.

The truth about Peter Parker's parents! Mary and Richard Parker, long presumed dead, returned home months ago alive and well - but Aunt May still has suspicions, and this family reunion will be anything but happy! But first, Spider-Man must survive a showdown with an angrier-than-ever Hulk - and Venom's sparring partners the Jury will serve their verdict on Spidey! And when the Vulture gains a new lease on life at Peter's expense, it sets in motion a chain of events that will rock the wall-crawler's world! An enraged Spider-Man vents his fury on the Chameleon, Shriek and Carrion - but can Peter Parker claw his way back from the brink of madness?

Softcover, 496 pages, full color. Rated T

NOTE: Book 26 of the Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection - Years Covered: 1993-1994.

Creditsy:

Written by David Michelinie, J.M. DeMatteis, Howard Mackie, Mike Lackey, Tom Brevoort, Mike Kanterovich, Eric Fein, and Terry Kavanagh.

Art by Mark Bagley, Steven Butler, Larry Alexander, Tom Lyle, Sal Buscema, Alex Saviuk, Anthony Williams, Mark Tenney, Ron Lim, Randy Emberlin, Al Milgrom, Keith Williams, Joe Rubinsyein, Tom Palmer, Stephen Baskerville, and Scott Hanna.

Cover price $44.99.

Add to cart Very Fine $23.00

Add to cart Fine $17.00

Add to cart Good $6.30

1st printing. Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1998-2013 2nd Series) #652-657 and 654.1.

Written by DAN SLOTT. Art by STEFANO CASELLI, MARCOS MARTIN, HUMBERTO RAMOS and PAULO SIQUEIRA. Cover by MARCOS MARTIN.

The Scorpion was just the beginning! Alistair Smythe, the Spider-Slayer, has returned - and Mac Gargan isn't the only subject he's upgraded. The Spider-Slayer is about to unleash an entire insect army on Spider-Man's world! And as part of his ultimate revenge, Smythe is out turn one of Spidey's first-ever victories into one of his biggest losses. No one in Spidey's life is safe! And amid the fallout from these events, Peter will make a choice - a promise - even he might not be able to fulfill.

Plus: Spider-Man visits the FF for a very private wake - just for family - and a new web-slinger is born!

Hardcover, 216 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Add to cart Fine $7.70

1st printing. Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1998- 2nd Series) #652-657 and #654.1. Written by DAN SLOTT. Art by STEFANO CASELLI, MARCOS MARTIN, HUMBERTO RAMOS and PAULO SIQUEIRA. Cover by MARCOS MARTIN. The Scorpion was just the beginning! Alistair Smythe, the Spider-Slayer, has returned - and Mac Gargan isn't the only subject he's upgraded. The Spider-Slayer is about to unleash an entire insect army on Spider-Man's world! And as part of his ultimate revenge, Smythe is out turn one of Spidey's first-ever victories into one of his biggest losses. No one in Spidey's life is safe! And amid the fallout from these events, Peter will make a choice - a promise - even he might not be able to fulfill. Plus: Spider-Man visits the FF for a very private wake - just for family - and a new web-slinger is born! Softcover, 216 pages, full color. Cover price $19.99.

Ballantine Books Edition - 1st printing. Written by Harvey Pekar. Art by Kevin Brown, Gregory Budgett, Sean Carroll, Sue Cavey, R. Crumb, Gary Dumm, Val Mayerik, and Gerry Shamray. Introduction by R. Crumb. The inspiration for the award-winning movie from HBO Films and Fine Line Features. AMERICAN SPLENDOR: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar includes two classic comic anthologies in one volume. The classic collection of the comics that inspired the movie American Splendor, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. American Splendor is the world's first literary comic book. Cleveland native Harvey Pekar is a true American original. A V.A. hospital file clerk and comic book writer, Harvey chronicles the ordinary and mundane in stories both funny and touching. His dead-on eye for the frustrations and minutiae of the workaday world mix in a delicate balance with his insight into personal relationships. Pekar has been compared to Dreiser, Dostoevsky, and Lenny Bruce. But he is truly more than all of them-he is himself. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 320 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $15.95.

Ballantine Books Edition - 2nd and later printings. Written by Harvey Pekar. Art by Kevin Brown, Gregory Budgett, Sean Carroll, Sue Cavey, R. Crumb, Gary Dumm, Val Mayerik, and Gerry Shamray. Introduction by R. Crumb. The inspiration for the award-winning movie from HBO Films and Fine Line Features. AMERICAN SPLENDOR: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar includes two classic comic anthologies in one volume. The classic collection of the comics that inspired the movie American Splendor, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. American Splendor is the world's first literary comic book. Cleveland native Harvey Pekar is a true American original. A V.A. hospital file clerk and comic book writer, Harvey chronicles the ordinary and mundane in stories both funny and touching. His dead-on eye for the frustrations and minutiae of the workaday world mix in a delicate balance with his insight into personal relationships. Pekar has been compared to Dreiser, Dostoevsky, and Lenny Bruce. But he is truly more than all of them-he is himself. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 320 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $15.95.

Story by Mike Benton and Scott Deschaine. Art and Cover by Jim Woodring. Educational comic centered around the lives of elephants in the wild and in captivity. 6 3/4" X 10". 16 pages. Full color.

1st printing.

By Typex.

From the 32 canvas Campbell's Soup Cans to the Marilyn Diptych, Andy Warhol's silk-screen prints are the epitome of Pop Art: witty, gimmicky and unafraid of repetition. Obsessed with consumerism and the cult of celebrity, Warhol (1928-1987) exalted the "surface of things"-and yet he was a man of deep complexity. In Andy, Typex captures the remarkable life of the king of Pop Art, from his working-class upbringing in Pittsburgh to the dizzying heights of his celebrity. Spanning Warhol's early career as a commercial illustrator, his relationship with the Velvet Underground, and the development of his own instantly recognizable style, Andy is an exhilarating portrait of a transcendent artist and a master self-promoter.

Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 568 pages, full color.

Cover price $34.99.

1st printing.

Story and art by Catherine Ocelot.

Catherine Ocelot wonders about her place as an artist, digging into the layers of what it means to live this Art Life. In her search for answers, she talks with seven artists from different disciplines who express their doubts, their struggles, their ambitions and their sometimes-wise and sometimes-funny observations. The author stages these encounters with finesse and wit, and echoes them with scenes from her own life.

Art Life is a tragicomic tale tinged with fantasy that explores the impact of others on oneself, led by an artist who slowly comes to understand herself.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 208 pages, B&W.

Cover price $20.00.

1st Edition - 1st printing. Collects Astro City (1995 1st Series) #1-6.

Written by Kurt Busiek. Art by Brent Anderson. Cover by Alex Ross.

This striking collection reprints the groundbreaking Astro City mini-series in a hardcover edition.

Hardcover, 192 pages, full color.

Cover price $39.95.

1st Edition - 2nd and later printings. Collects Astro City (1995 1st Series) #1-6.

Written by Kurt Busiek. Art by Brent Anderson. Cover by Alex Ross.

This striking collection reprints the groundbreaking Astro City mini-series in a hardcover edition.

Hardcover, 192 pages, full color.

Cover price $39.95.

Limited Signed Edition

1st printing. Collects Astro City (1995 1st Series) #1-6.

Written by Kurt Busiek. Art by Brent Anderson. Cover by Alex Ross.

This striking collection reprints the groundbreaking Astro City mini-series in a hardcover edition.

Hardcover, 192 pages, full color.

NOTE: Signed by Kurt Busiek,y Brent Anderson and Alex Ross and limited to 1,000 copies.

Cover price $49.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $4.99

Add to cart Near Mint $4.99

Archie and Friends All-Stars: Book 3 - 1st printing. Written by Alex Simmons. Art by Fernando Ruiz. Chuck is asked to teach an after-school program in cartooning to elementary school kids, and he soon learns that kids can be more hyperactive than his doodles! But Chuck is determined to connect with the kids and help them create the next comic book classics. He gets help teaching from an unlikely source, and reaches out to a troubled child known for spreading graffiti. Can Chuck's world of collecting, drawing, and teaching kids how to make their own comics take on new meaning? Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 96 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

1st printing.

By Linda H. Davis.

The Addams Family is creepy and kooky, but believe it or not, the real Addams family was even more strange and outrageous than the beloved comic's characters.

In Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life, meet the legendary cartoonist behind the altogether ooky Addams Family in this first biographical exposé, written with exclusive access to Charles' Addams' private archives. Take a front-row seat to the widespread rumors and storytelling genius behind one of America's oddest and most iconic creators. Even as The Addams Family grew in fame, the life of Charles Addams remained shrouded in mystery. Did he really sleep in a coffin and drink martinis garnished with eyeballs? In reality, Addams himself was charismatic and spellbinding as the characters he created. Discover the real stories behind Addams' most famous, and most private drawings, including the cartoon that offended the Nazis. From his dazzling love for sports cars and beautiful women-Jackie Kennedy and Joan Fontaine among them-to the darkest relationship of his life, this witty book reveals Addams' life as never before.

With rare family photographs, classic and previously unpublished cartoons, and private drawings accompanying this portrait of Charles Addams, Linda H. Davis provides a fascinating journey into the life of a beloved American icon.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 400 pages, Text (with B&W Photos and Illustrations).

Cover price $18.99.

1st printing. Written by Giovanni Trimboli. Preface by Umberto Eco. A retrospective on the life of Peanuts creator, Charles M. Schulz. Filled with photos, sketches and comic strips. Hardcover w/slipcase, 9-1/2" x 12-1/2", 176 pages, full color. Cover price $45.00.

Add to cart Near Mint $7.00

Add to cart Very Fine $6.00

1st printing.

Written by Jon Lee Anderson. Art by Jose Hernandez.

Che Guevara's legend is unmatched in the modern world. Since his assassination in 1967 at the age of 39, the Argentine revolutionary has become an internationally recognized icon, as revered as he is controversial. In Che: A Revolutionary Life, Jon Lee Anderson and José Hernández present the man behind the myth, creating a complex and human portrait of this passionate idealist. Che vividly transports us from young Ernesto's medical school days as a sensitive asthmatic to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from his place of power alongside Castro, to his disastrous sojourn in the Congo, and his violent end in Bolivia. Anderson and Hernández's Che makes us a witness to the revolutionary life and times of Che Guevara.

Hardcover, 7-in. x 9-in., 432 pages, full color.

Cover price $35.00.

Add to cart Near Mint $15.99

From Fischer to Carlsen, and Beyond, in Over 500 Quotes

1st printing. A beautiful gifting edition of chess quotations from the greats, for the soon-to-be grandmaster in your life. 'All I want to do, ever, is just play Chess'. Life is like a game of chess, as the proverb goes: it changes with every move. Across the board, players confess to seeing the world in new ways, observing the movement of time differently or making sense of art, science and politics. Its beauty has captured the imagination of many of the world's greatest minds, across several generations. In this book, we have compiled some of the finest wit and wisdom from the world of chess. Whether about tactics, pieces, victories or blunders, these quotes collectively pay homage to history's most beloved game and how it reflects the world in which we live. After all, chess is life. Hardcover, 5 1/2-in.x 8-in., 208 pages, Text Only. Cover price $21.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $25.00

1st printing. By Judd Apatow. Foreword by Lena Dunham. An intimate, rollicking highly-visual memoir of a comedic genius that offers a rare glimpse into the creative life and inner workings of legendary director producer Judd Apatow through never-before-seen photos, letters and behind-the-scenes stories. In the mid-eighties, a young, self-professed comedy nerd from Syosset, Long Island, named Judd Apatow took to the stage to perform his first standup routine—and survived. Over the coming decades, Apatow would translate his obsession for comedy into one of the most successful careers in Hollywood, through genre-defining films such as The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Bridesmaids, and This Is 40 and iconic series such as Girls and Freaks & Geeks. Through his solo work as well as his collaborations with fellow comedians Steve Carell, Adam Sandler, Amy Schumer, and countless others, Apatow reshaped the landscape of American comedy. In this revelatory scrapbook memoir, Apatow has pulled hundreds of personal photographs, letters, scripts, drafts, and paired them with never-before-told stories to create a unique-in-format, deeply-personal-in-tone account of a storied career. Spanning decades, Comedy Nerd takes us on Apatows lifelong journey of fandom, creativity, and obsession: from the exacting, relentless work that goes into cracking people up; surprising stories about our favorite comedians; and insights into how Apatow has managed to push the limits of his craft in an ever-evolving cultural landscape. It is a candid, joyful, and fascinating portrait of an artist and storyteller who has spent decades making us laugh. Hardcover, 7 1/2-in. x 9 1/2-in., 576 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $50.00.

Add to cart Fine $8.99

1st printing. For years, Mark Evanier's essays and commentaries have been among the most popular, well-read writings on the comic book industry. Now, at last, here's Comic Books & Other Necessities Of Life, a trade paperback collection of some of his best POV columns (including several that have never-before-been published)! Topics covered in this colossal volume range from the state of the art form and its leading practitioners - including Jack Kirby and Carl Barks - to convention-going and Mark's old comic book club. His acclaimed columns are surrounded by a new cover and interior illustrations by the award-winning MAD cartoonist (and Mark's collaborator of 20 years on Groo the Wanderer), Sergio Aragonés! Whether you're a comics history buff, or you just enjoy Mark's witty, unique perspective on comics, this collection is not to be missed! Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 200 pages, B&W. Cover price $12.95.

2nd and later printings. For years, Mark Evanier's essays and commentaries have been among the most popular, well-read writings on the comic book industry. Now, at last, here's Comic Books & Other Necessities Of Life, a trade paperback collection of some of his best POV columns (including several that have never-before-been published)! Topics covered in this colossal volume range from the state of the art form and its leading practitioners - including Jack Kirby and Carl Barks - to convention-going and Mark's old comic book club. His acclaimed columns are surrounded by a new cover and interior illustrations by the award-winning MAD cartoonist (and Mark's collaborator of 20 years on Groo the Wanderer), Sergio Aragonés! Whether you're a comics history buff, or you just enjoy Mark's witty, unique perspective on comics, this collection is not to be missed! Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 200 pages, B&W. Cover price $12.95.

1st printing. Written by Jared Gardner and Ian Gordon. Art and cover by Charles M. Schulz. An unparalleled gathering of research devoted to one of the world's most influential comic strips. The Comics of Charles Schulz collects new essays on the work of the creator of the immensely popular Peanuts comic strip. Despite Schulz's celebrity, few scholarly books on his work and career have been published. This collection serves as a foundation for future study not only of Charles Schulz (1922-2000) but, more broadly, of the understudied medium of newspaper comics. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 192 pages, B&W. Cover price $65.00.

1st printing. Story and art by Will Eisner. A Contract with God, originally published in 1978, was the first graphic novel. Along with A Life Force and Dropsie Avenue, they laid the track for such seminal works as Maus and Persepolis. Set during the Great Depression, this literary trilogy, assembled in one volume for the first time, presents a treasure house of now near-mythic stories that fictionally illustrate the bittersweet tenement life of Eisner's youth. With nearly two dozen new illustrations and a revealing new foreword, this book ultimately tells the epic story of life, death, and resurrection while exploring man's fractious relationship with an all-too-vengeful God. Hardcover, 510 pages, B&W. Cover price $29.95.