Publishing Comics

Starting with the Civil War and cartoonist Thomas Nast, creator of the lasting images of Uncle Sam and Santa Claus, author Jeremy Dauber whizzes listeners through the progress of comics in the 20th century and beyond. Follow the history from the golden age of newspaper comic strips - Krazy Kat, Yellow Kid, Dick Tracy - to the midcentury superhero boom - Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman - and from the moral panic of the Eisenhower era to the underground comix movement; from the grim and gritty Dark Knights to the graphic novel’s rise.

PICK UP THIS BOOK BEFORE YOU PICK UP THE MICROPHONE Part instruction manual, part memoir and part cautionary tale, “How to FAIL at Stand-Up Comedy” is a hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking exploration of a 30 year career in stand-up. Sabo pulls no punches while revealing what it’s really like to live the life of a traveling comedian, warts and all. Sabo points out everything you can do wrong in this business with glaring detail and without judgment. Chock full of advice from industry insiders and experts in the field, “FAIL” takes you on the journey from open-miker to seasoned ...

A stand-up comedian beloved for her combination of feisty wit and Southern charm, Pierce knows all too well that life is funny—until it’s not. But she also knows that it will become funny again. She’s held on to that hope—and that promise—through tragedy and triumph. And now she’s finally ready to tell her full story. In Life Is Funny until It’s Not, Pierce recounts a preacher’s daughter’s childhood filled with heartbreak, including abuse, her parents’ divorce, and the sudden deaths of her two sisters in the span of two years.

"Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King & Dean Koontz" - READERS FAVORITE He fell from the stars and changed the world. Suddenly there existed a super being much like those that only existed on the pages of comic books, but not everyone took to the newcomer nor what he represented and some would seek to destroy what they perceived as a blasphemer. SOUL were an organisation created by a Cynthia Arrow, a religious zealot overwhelmed with the desire to deal in terror and rid the country of their greatest hero by any means necessary. Driven by her ...

FROM MILLION-SELLING WRITER BERNICE BLOOM A FABULOUSLY FUNNY TALE ABOUT WEIGHT LOSS CAMPS AND THE HORRORS OF INTERNET DATING. 'I just loved it.' A wonderful book.' “It was hysterical, some bits made me laugh out loud, and other parts made me blush with recognition.” "This is definitely one of my favourite of Mary’s adventures so far! I feel like they’re just getting better and better! Can’t wait for the next one!!" Mary Brown heads to Portugal for a weight loss camp and discovers it’s nothing like she expected.“I thought it would be Slimming World in the sunshine, but this is ...

What Happens When You Wake A Sleeping Dragon? The life which Zack, Lottie and Dakota knew has gone. Now, they exist in a permanent winter, pursued by the dravik - a terrifying dragon-like creature - and the evil orrakhen which do its bidding. There is no daytime. Nor is there night. Instead, the children travel through a constant twilight where the sky is violet, and three moons constantly glimmer above. Heading north with their new friends, Mo and Skyla, the group hope to seek safety on the frozen ocean. Instead, they enter a new dimension and meet a species with magical powers far beyond ...

Book One: Transforming the Nerd Girls Connor and Geo found a stone. It was most likely a meteorite fragment, but in their research, they found that it gave off a faint but indefinable energy. Unfortunately, before the two young nerds could finish their studies, Connor's younger sister, Tristan swiped it off their workbench. Geo was the first one that noticed that her normal disdain for the two scientific geniuses had turned to overt flirtation aimed in his direction. Was the stone making her more promiscuous? Definitely worth a little extra research. Besides, it was all in the name of ...

🎃👻 Why did the undead chicken cross the road? To get to the fool's house. Knock, knock! Who’s there? …The undead chicken😆😅😂🤣 – 🧟♂️🧠 written by unknown undead. Get ready to howl with laughter (or moan, groan & face-plant 😱🤣) this Halloween! Prepare for spine-tingling, side-splitting chills with the ultimate 🎃 categorized collection of Halloween & Horror Humor that’ll tickle your funny bone🦴🩻 & leave you cackling like a witch 🧙♀️💀! Get buried alive in an utter avalanche⛷️🏂 of face-planting😒🌵 BAD (😈 EVIL?) DAD jokes -...

What Happens When You Wake A Sleeping Dragon? When Zack, Lottie and Dakota board a train to Scotland, it’s a beautiful summer’s day. The group are excited about meeting with their classmates for a week of outdoor activities. But, a few hours into the journey, their train grinds to a halt. The world has lost all its power. Phones are dead; electricity is no more; engines have failed, and even fire refuses to burn. Then the snow starts falling… Suddenly alone in the silence of a frozen landscape, the three friends have nobody to rely on but each other. Dark shadows long dormant have ...

"You're a comedian? That must be awesome!" It's a familiar response from people who've just met someone that calls comedy their full-time job. On the surface, it's glamorous: laughter, bright spotlights, and traveling the world. But like sausage-making, the real action is far from pretty. What goes unseen is the struggle undertaken by comedians to perform on that stage. In Go Home Happy, stand-up veteran Nathan Timmel leads the reader through a funny, pride-swallowing journey navigating the minefield of club owners, booking agents, drunken hecklers, and unexpected friends. Part fun and ...

Whether you’re a beginner with big ideas or a seasoned artist ready to publish your first graphic novel, Ink & Impact is your all-in-one roadmap to creating powerful, professional-level comics and manga—your way.

Zombies, chocolate cake, and dumpster fires. Must be Thursday. My name is Wysdom Ward. I’m a former cop who became a private detective to help those who fell through the cracks. The cases the police wouldn’t touch. But now, I’m up to my eyeballs in reluctant corpses, snappy seniors, and a new employee who may be trying to kill me Plus, that pesky little conspiracy that threatens to end my family and my town - forever. The Wysdom Ward Case Files are humorous mysteries that feature a wise-cracking private detective who’s dealing with perimenopause, mom guilt, and men telling her to ...

In this insightful and provocative book, comics-industry veteran Danny Fingeroth explores the backgrounds of the most well-known superheroes and their creators—largely young American Jewish men from Eastern European backgrounds. These innovators include Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Will Eisner, and Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. In Disguised as Clark Kent, Fingeroth explores how the creators’ Jewish backgrounds helped make superheroes the most familiar popular-culture icons of all.

The long-awaited literary return of the author of the critically acclaimed cult classic Apathy and Other Small Victories: a darkly comic novel, set in the near future, about the race to find a missing cyber program with the power to bend reality, all before a fast-approaching comet destroys the...

After he and his wife are murdered, Marine Ray Garrison is resurrected by a secret team of scientists. Enhanced with nanotechnology, he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine - “Bloodshot” - without any memory of his previous life. But some things can’t stay buried, and Ray refuses to back down when his memories begin to surface. Haunted by the face of his family’s killer, he will stop at nothing to take his revenge. And he discovers a conspiracy going deeper than he could have possibly imagined.

What Happens When You Wake A Sleeping Dragon? The life that thirteen-year-old Zack, Lottie and Dakota once knew has long gone. Since the world changed, they’ve been pursued by the dravik - a terrifying dragon-like creature - and the evil orrakhen which do its bidding. Beneath the violet skies of the lunar triad, the children have followed Skyla’s lead, fleeing across the frozen wastelands of the north. Their epic journey has been shaped by a talismule prophecy, and has now taken them beyond the ice mountains. Crossing the scorched deserts of the south, the group discovers that most of ...

In this memoir, Lockwood draws upon his forty years in the newspaper industry as a reporter and editor, offering a unique glimpse into the world of newspaper cartoon strips. He details the production and promotion of countless comic strips, while also providing his own assessments of the most iconic cartoonists of the last half-century. The book is filled with fascinating anecdotes about his relationships with some of America's greatest cartoonists and the syndicate reps who sold their cartoon strips.

See You At San Diego is the comprehensive chronicle of Comic-Con International and modern geekdom itself as told through countless stories by nearly fifty of the most integral members of the Comic-Con and fandom scene. This full-fledged oral history—bursting with intimate reflections, hilarious observations, and at times, heartbreaking stories—is about how the geek at last inherited the earth and the story of the transformation of mainstream American pop culture into comic book culture over the past century.

Michael E. Uslan, executive producer of the Batman movie franchise, offers an insider’s look at Hollywood and the process of how movies and television shows go from the drawing board to your screens. Continuing the delightful tale of his adventures begun in The Boy Who Loved Batman, Uslan draws on both his successful and less successful attempts to bring ideas to the screen, offering a helpful, honest, and breezily told guide to producing films.

Josh had admired Will from afar, not sure if he stood a chance. Always the shy one, Will stayed to himself most of the time. Then one day Josh needed someone to share a table at a comic con, Will volunteers and sparks began to fly. Art and comics have brought them together, a mutual lust is drawing them closer, but can some more come from a comic con?