Cyanide & Happiness: A Guide to Parenting by Three Guys with No Kids


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Finally, a definitive and reliable manual that demystifies the complicated world of parenting while delivering crucial tips and sage advice—all from three guys who make comics instead of children. This informative guide for breeders tackles all the big parenting issues: Finding messages in your alphabet soup, drawing the perfect hand turkey, getting away with kidnapping, telling your kids you don't love them anymore, and making out with your kid's best friend's dad. Cartoonists Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, and Dave McElfatrick combine all their knowledge and experience—or lack thereof—for a laugh-out-loud, labor-inducing look into the world of parenthood through the sick and twisted lens of Cyanide & Happiness comics.




Cyanide & Happiness: Punching Zoo (20th Anniversary Edition)


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A 20th Anniversary Edition of BOOM! Studios’ first collection of comic strips from Cyanide & Happiness, a #1 Amazon Best Seller, featuring fan-favorite strips from the wildly original webcomics series that paved the sad, sticky, bloody path for countless others, plus strips that only appear in this collection! Stick figures dishing out the worst that life has to offer in the funniest way possible; you’d laugh, if you could sleep at night... Also includes “The Hot Date,” a “chews” your own adventure story and a foreword by Alexis Ohanian, one of the founders of Reddit!




Ice Cream & Sadness


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The second collection from Cyanide & Happiness creators Kris Wilson, Matt Melvin, Rob DenBleyker, and Dave McElfatrick features more never-before-seen comics, more cartoons behaving badly and more of the insulting humor that fans have been waiting for! Ranking among the web’s smartest and crudest cartoons, like Achewood, Penny Arcade, and The Perry Bible Fellowship, Explosm.net’s massively popular webcomic would make the cast of South Park blush. Readers, get ready for a laugh-out-loud voyage to the realm of the absurd.




Cyanide & Happiness: Stab Factory (20th Anniversary Edition)


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Once again, creators Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, and Dave McElfatrick combine some of their best strips and a host of never-before-seen comics into this classic collected book, all dressed up for the 20th anniversary of their creation. In the best, sickest tradition, Cyanide & Happiness’ adorable stick figures and the wildly inappropriate topics they cover—including cannibalism, murder, and incest—is not only reminiscent of early 00s web humor, but offers a timeless profane sensibility all its own. Also including a foreword by comedian Bo Burnham and “Poetry Corner,” a series of demented rhymes, this 20th anniversary edition of BOOM! Studios’ second collection of comic strips from Cyanide & Happiness, will surprise even conscientious readers with stick figures dishing out and receiving the worst that life has to offer in concise strips that are so funny, you’ll forget to feel bad about laughing.




Cyanide & Happiness: Stab Factory


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"A collection of comics plus: 30 new bonus comics and "Poetry Corner" gentle poems for boys and girls!"--Cover.




How to Kick Someone's Ass


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A drunk giant comes charging at you in a bar. Go with a roundhouse kick, Judo hip throw, or Karate punch to bring him to the ground. Your cheapskate neighbor refuses to pay you back. The next time he's on vacation, turn on his backyard hose. By the time he returns home, his yard will be a swamp and his water bill will be through the roof. Some juiced-up meathead starts trouble at the gym. Take him down to size with an Aikido wrist twist. There's more than one way to skin a cat—or kick someone's ass. In this rough and ready field guide, you'll find 365 ways to nail the bastards who try to get you down. Written under an alias by a man who's been there, done that, and lived to deny it all, this is all you need to protect and avenge yourself against every possible threat—be it physical, emotional, psychological, financial, or otherwise. From cue balls and steel-toed boots to spiders and Krazy Glue, you'll find an amazing array of household weapons and tactics designed to put that moron in his or her place once and for all.




BOOM! Box Mix Tape 2016


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For the third year in a row, we’ve assembled a collection of short comics that embody the BOOM! Box aesthetic, an eclectic mix of weird tales from off the beaten track. This year, we’re really leaning into the “mix tape” element by exploring music through sequential storytelling. These can be comics about being in a band, a story about the first time you went to a certain venue, or even a puzzle quest revolving around a music festival. BOOM! Box 2016 Mix Tape embraces graphic storytelling in a way that embodies Tunes That Make You Think in Pictures...




Fandom


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Have you ever finished a book or TV series and wished for more? Created stories, art, or videos based on a game? Dressed up as your favorite character? If so, you've entered fandom. Fan writers expand and mix up stories, like sending the Star Trek crew to Hogwarts. Cosplayers sew Star Wars and Sailor Moon costumes, and fan filmmakers make music video tributes. Fans also enrich invented worlds with greater diversity, creating female and multiracial avatars for games peopled only with white male characters. Tour fandom's history and meet fan writers, video-makers, artists, costumers, and gamers who celebrate the things they love and shape fan communities online and in real life.




Closing of the American Mind


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The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.




Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition)


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A beautifully packaged edition of one of García Márquez's most beloved novels, with never-before-seen color illustrations by the Chilean artist Luisa Rivera and an interior design created by the author's son, Gonzalo García Barcha. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.