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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.

Big Nate Wright is president of P.S. 38, the after school cartooning club.

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

Defines and examines various modes of twentieth-century visual humor, including whimsy, wit, parody, irony, satire, and nonsense, and illustrates how they are expressed through paintings, sculpture, comic strips, and other art forms.

Abandoned by his mother, thirteen-year-old Heck tries to survive on his own as his mind bounces between the superhero character he imagines himself to be and the harsh reality of his life.

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.

Presents eighty years of cartoons from The New Yorker Magazine since its creation in 1925, brief profiles of major cartoonists, and two CDs that contains over sixty-eight thousand cartoons.

Recounts, through gallows humor and cartoon drawings, the experiences of infantry soldiers during World War II.

A collection of "Far Side" cartoons offering a humorous look at the human condition.

After her father's death, aspiring sixth-grade writer Addy McMahon feels like she is cursed with bad luck, and when she temporarily loses her best friend, and is forced to admit that her mother is dating again, she vows she will never write another word.

Traces the sixty-year career of Wonder Woman, with an emphasis on later developments and characters.

Discusses the many kinds of cartoons--funny ones, political and editorial ones, caricatures, comic strips and books, gag panels, animated movie cartoons--and gives hints to the budding cartoonist.