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With inimitable style, Steig tells the story of a mouse, Abelard Hassam di Chirico Flint, who gets swept away in a driving rainstorm while rescuing his wife's scarf and winds up stranded on a river island for a year.

Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at moneymaking projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.

Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing Popeye, Fred Flintstone, Dick Tracy, Yogi Bear, Felix the cat, Little Orphan Annie, Flash Gordon, and other cartoon characters.

Presents selections from the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip in which Calvin creates a time machine, loses his stuffed tiger in the woods, and enjoys a visit from his Uncle Max.

The author relates, in graphic form, her experiences after she injured her two front teeth and had to have surgeries and wear embarrassing braces and headgear, all while also dealing with the trials and tribulations of middle school.

A brief discussion of the techniques and functions of political cartoons accompanies capsule biographies of sixteen political cartoonists from Ben Franklin to Tom Darcy.

Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing a variety of human, animal, and other figures in the style of Japanese anime, covering general tips, details of specific features, and how to show action.

Asterel races against time to locate a token which will prevent the Kurbs from freezing the city.

Retells eight Greek myths in a comic strip format, including "Pandora's box," "The twelve tasks of Heracles," and "Theseus and the Minotaur.

Abigail, Jacob, Zack, and Bo travel back in time to 1928 only to discover that the not yet famous Walt Disney has ideas about quitting.

A collection of cartoons from the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes.

Offers illustrated instructions on how to draw cartoon characters, with advice on how to come up with jokes for the cartoons, tips on overcoming writer's block, and discussion of how to protect and sell ideas.

Carlton Dunne IV, an outcast boarding school student with a secret identity as a graphic novelist, teams up with a beautiful Scottish girl who yearns to be an American police officer, to resolve an ancient feud and rescue Carlton's kidnapped father.

A collection of cartoons featuring a variety of animals, insects, and people in comic situations, and including a series of color plates that trace the evolution of life on Earth.

After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Victorian-era London and is unwittingly recruited into a scabrous gang of scheming urchins.