Meal Deal With The Devil combines a story book with a five-song CD EP (including two "story songs") from the devious San Francisco Bay Area musical satirists Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits. The CD comes with a read-along storybook, illustrated by Jason Chandler of Horrible Comics—it's an adult version of those children's books you used to have with the record that let you know when to turn the page. Meal Deal features three brand new & exclusive Bobby Joe Ebola tracks for brat...

Taking us back to late ’70s and early ’80s Hollywood—pre-crack, pre-AIDS, pre-Reagan—We Got the Neutron Bomb re-creates word for word the rage, intensity, and anarchic glory of the Los Angeles punk scene, straight from the mouths of the scenesters, zinesters, groupies, filmmakers, and musicians who were there.“California was wide-open sex—no condoms, no birth control, no morality, no guilt.” —Kim Fowley“The Runaways were rebels, all of us were. And a lot of...

The autobiography of Cheetah Chrome, lead guitarist of the Dead Boys, tells a tale of success—and excess: great music, drugs (he overdosed and was pronounced dead three times), and resurrection.The Dead Boys, with roots in the band Rocket from the Tombs, came out of Cleveland to dominate the NYC punk scene in the mid-1970s. Their hit “Sonic Reducer” soon became a punk anthem. Here, Cheetah dishes on the people he’s known onstage and off, including ...

Life has been rather tumultuous in Riverdale as of late, and everyone has plenty on their minds! Big things are about to happen to some of our favorite pals ‘n’ gals, but it seems as though everyone’s own personal problems might cause them to neglect the ones they love. Will Veronica’s legal issues continue to pull her away from her friends and family, or will super-detective Sam Hill save the day and allow her to be free from the shackles of house arrest? Can Archie finally put an end to ...

A superb new graphic memoir in which an inspired artist/storyteller reveals the road that brought his family to where they are today: VietnamericaGB Tran is a young Vietnamese American artist who grew up distant from (and largely indifferent to) his family’s history. Born and raised in South Carolina as a son of immigrants, he knew that his parents had fled Vietnam during the fall of Saigon. But even as they struggled to adapt to life in America, they preferred to ...

In 1975 Eddie and the Hot Rods burst onto the music scene and quickly built up a massive following. The band from south Essex were young, full of energy ... and the singer 'shook his ass'. For a time they were arguably the biggest live band in the UK. Hit singles and albums followed; they filled clubs beyond capacity and they toured the USA. Did they pave the way for punk? Maybe, but the Hot Rods refused to change their look or their attitude. They viewed punks as art students striking a p...

Witty poems that are “full of vim and vinegar . . . Remember when we all got out of school for the fire alarm? This is even better” (Dean Young).Selected by Marie Howe for the 2011 Kathryn A. Morton Prize, Easy Math is anxious and exuberant both. Lauren Shapiro’s poems are Aesop stood on end, wry fables that defy our instinct to find a moral to the story. Instead, she offers us a gimlet eye to the disappointments of the world, tall tale-telling by turns ri...

Child of the Sun is a very loose adaptation of the biblical Samson mixed with some other biblical tales, biblical legends, and ancient biblical fiction. The story focuses on the first half of Samson's life: before Delilah, before the fall, when his power and confidence was at its height. It is also a love story between Samson and the little known wife of his youth.

This is a compilation of three hundred limericks, all of which are original. Every one is identified by a number. After the llast line of the verse a short commentary has been attached to explain features of the limerick – to any allusion in it which is not obvious, or to places mentioned, or to explain pronunciations which might be unclear, or to explain words which are unusual. The metre of each verse is indicated by using bold type for the stressed syllables.

**NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Publisher's Weekly "Best Summer Books of 2013"The Daily Beast's "Brainy Summer Beach Reads"**The classic literary canon meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in Russ Kick's magisterial, three-volume, full-color The Graphic Canon, volumes 1, 2, and 3.Volume 3 brings to life the literature of the end of the 20th century and the start of th...

100 Shades of Greene has poems, verses and short stories about life's emotions and dreams. It is about feelings, about lost love,about new love and family. It is about God and spirit, about birth and death, joy and pain. Things that touch all of us in our lifetime.

One of Amazon.com's Top 10 Graphic Novels of the year'[My Brother's Husband] arrives in the UK garlanded with praise from, among others, Alison Bechdel. It's not hard to see why. Not only is it very touching; it's also, for the non-Japanese reader, unexpectedly fascinating' Rachel Cooke, Observer, Graphic Novel of the Month'When a cuddly Canadian comes to call, Yaichi - a single Japanese dad - is forced to confront his pai...