Author :
Publisher : Alternative Comics
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 31,7 MB
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1681485397
Piano man down! Slim Watkins checks out behind “bug-juice”, just as Jimmy Watts, tenor sax avatar, has truly achieved sobriety. Could drummer Ralph Rojas have prevented Slim's demise? Maybe, but he's too busy with sexy Clarise, the leggy jazz fan with a penchant for boffing drummers.
Author : Lesley Milne
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780864863355
This is Lesley Milne's second adventure story for young readers. She does not flinch from exploring tough issues, yet she does this with humour, warmth and understanding.
Author :
Publisher : Alternative Comics
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1681485389
On the road again! Jimmy, Bones, Slim and Ralph Rojas take their band of Be-boppin' bugs on the road. Sparks fly at the Fox Theatre in Oaktown, where our boys luck their way into a wild jam session with the McKinley Blues Band, crossing Bop with the electric blues for a historic meeting of musical minds. Set in a 'bug noir' Manhattan of the nineteen-fifties, Bughouse weaves the story of an ensemble of characters who are essentially human beings with bug-like features, as they dance on the edge of the abyss. Steve Lafler brings alive a lost era of jazz and drugs that evokes a range of emotions and experience rarely seen in comic books.
Author : Jonathon Green
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 1600 pages
File Size : 28,56 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780304366361
With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results
Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2680 pages
File Size : 47,85 MB
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 131744552X
First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, as well as from Britain and America and offers a fascinating and unique study of language. The book provides an invaluable insight into social history, with the British vocabulary dating back to the 16th century and the American to the late 18th century. Each entry comes complete with the approximate date of origin, the etymology for each word, and a note of the milieu in which the expression arose.
Author : Susan Schade
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,52 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Dwellings
ISBN : 9780679853008
Six bugs find a tennis ball and turn it into a wonderful house for themselves.
Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2733 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317431588
This set reissues important selected works by Eric Partridge, covering the period from 1933 to 1968. Together, the books look at many and diverse aspects of language, focusing in particular on English. Included in the collection are a variety of insightful dictionaries and reference works that showcase some of Partridge’s best work. The books are creative, as well as practical, and will provide enjoyable reading for both scholars and the more general reader, who has an interest in language and linguistics.
Author : James Greer
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555846416
The true story of the fourth-grade teacher in Dayton, Ohio, who created one of the most influential bands of our times. Devoted fans have followed Guided by Voices for decades—and critics around the world have lauded the band’s brain trust, Robert Pollard, as a once-in-a-generation artist. Pollard has been compared by the New York Times to Mozart, Rossini, and Paul McCartney (in the same sentence) and everyone from P. J. Harvey, Radiohead, R.E.M., the Strokes, and U2 has sung his praises and cited his music as an influence. But it all started rather prosaically when Pollard, a fourth-grade teacher in his early thirties, began recording songs with drinking buddies in his basement. In this book, James Greer, an acclaimed music writer and former Spin editor—who also played in the band for two years—provides unparalleled insight and complete access to the workings of Pollard’s muse.
Author :
Publisher : Alternative Comics
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1681485400
For Ralph Rojas, be-bop drummer supreme, it's a tale of two “pretties”. Should he stay in Oaktown with the sultry temptress Clarise? Or return to Bugtown and the embrace of longtime squeeze Liz? Ralph, make up your mind already! They're both hotties. Clarise, she's a sly minx, but Liz is tough as nails and she don't give up!
Author :
Publisher : Alternative Comics
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 27,86 MB
Release : 2016-01-27
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 168148532X
Jimmy Watts and his BugHouse band are the toast of the town, as the red-hot Bebop jazz band takes the stage of the storied Club Savoy. But lookout, sleazy purveyors of the highly addictive substance “bug-juice” flock around Jimmy. In no time, Jimmy takes a slug in a back-alley drug deal gone sour!
