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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.

🎃👻 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 -...

That stammer. Those basset-hound eyes. That bone-dry wit. There has never been another comedian like Bob Newhart. In this, his first audiobook ever, Newhart gives his brilliant and bemused twist on a multitude of topics, including flying, the trials of a family holiday in a Winnebago, and more serious subjects, such as golf. And, of course, there are side-splittingly funny stories from his life and career. Who else has a drinking game named after him? ("Hi, Bob!")

The Last Son of Krypton, Kal-El, Clark Kent, the Man of Steel...Superman. The most iconic character to come from the pages of comic books has a tremendously detailed history that has never been explained like this. In his debut audiobook, Rob Jefferson of Comics Explained assembles Superman’s entire publication history - breaking down every facet from the time period of his creation and its impact on his creators to the subsequent success and birth of the superhero genre.

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 ...

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...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

Almost 20,000 years ago, on what is now the southern coast of Norway, a great storm enveloped the area, causing another ice age to begin. While the inhabitants of the area were quite concerned, the atmospheric events led the people of the time to go underground. In their attempt to flee the raging storm, a great civilization was born – Izantica. The Kingdom of Izantica, like Atlantis, was a technological wonder, with devices and inventions that have never been conceived of before. The main person behind these technological advances was “Lars the Great.” Previously known as “Lars the...

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 ...

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.

A deadly killer stalks the rain-soaked streets of Shinbone, spreading panic and terror among the townsfolk. The authorities are baffled, partly because there hasn’t been a single crime in Shinbone for more than a hundred years but mostly because this particular deadly killer… …isn’t actually killing anyone. Enter Hieronymous Blush, master magician and the detective responsible for solving the mystery of The Lickspittle Leviathan. Can one man stand alone against the demonic threat of The Shinbone Shadowhunter? Of course not: he can’t even tie his own shoes. The race is on….

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.