by Kyle Baker

This is the original cult classic about Kyle Baker’s legendary film star, Cowboy Wally. 120 pages. Softcover, B&W, 8˝ x 11.

by Evan Dorkin

Great Advertisements from the Golden Age of Comic Books

This volume reprints the first six issues of MAD in a deluxe library format. The Smythe-sewn volume was shot from the original art and fully annotates and reprints the entire contents of the original comics, including all text and letters pages. Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis, Bill Elder, John Severin, and Wally Wood are among the many comics legends who contributed to the comic that grew into today's MAD magazine.

As a magazine, Mad is now an American institution - for over thirty years Alfred E. Neuman has grinned at us from the newsstand right next to Time, Cosmopolitan, and TV Guide. But once upon a time mad was just a thin 10 cent comic book struggling to gain space on the racks along with the other 500 or more comics that were being published in the early fifties.

Mad's first issue was a late entry in the Entertaining Comics (EC) line, which by 1952 was already publishing the titles Tales from the Crypt, The Vault of Horror and The Haunt of Fear. EC's publisher Bill Gaines (still Mad's publisher today) was unusual and innovative, and decided to publish horror tales and science fiction comics - and he also liked the humorous work of Harvey Kurtzman, so he and Kurtzman conspired to put out a humor comic, something so utterly unlike anything else on the newsstands that only Gaines would have taken the chance. For most of the first year, Mad lost money. But then word of mouth took over, and Mad quickly became a phenomenon. By the summer of 1955, Kurtzman felt that he had done everything that he could in the comic book format, and convinced Gaines to transform the title into a magazine. Much of the original comic book Mad has never been reprinted until now.

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From petty crimes to murder, the trivial to the heinous, THE WORST THING I'VE EVER DONE collects true confessions of real Americans as told directly to nationally syndicated cartoonist and columnist Ted Rall.

Once upon a time there was a children's book called "Pat the Bunny" that was an interactive book -- it came with fur for the reader to pet, scented pages, etc. Along came Ren and Stimpy with their version, named "Pat the Stimpy," where you can pet Stimpy's butt or touch his grainy litterbox or hairballs, or smell his old socks.

Seven tales by seven women: Childhood, School Girl, Working Girl, Lover, motherhood, Divorcee, Old Age.

Seven tales of Pride, Envy, Sloth, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, and Lust. Writers include Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore. Published in England in 1989 by Knockabout Comics.