Funny cartoons and comic strips Books
Drawn and Quarterly Walt and Skeezix Bk 2 Book Two
Book SynopsisGasoline Alley clearly belongs in the cannon as a deeply American masterwork of cartooning. -Time.comWalt and Skeezix: Book Two collects the Gasoline Alley strips by the great American cartoonist Frank King from 1923 to 1924. King was the first cartoonist to have his characters age in real time and have modern story lines, a landmark conception for comic strips in the early twentieth century. There is a new eighty-page introduction by journalist Jeet Heer.
£999.99
Drawn and Quarterly Moomin Book Five
Book SynopsisThe final volume in the series drawn by Tove Jansson Moomin Book Five: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip features the final strips drawn by Tove Jansson and written by her brother Lars for the London Evening News, before Lars took over both the art and the writing. The first "Moomin Winter" returns with more unwanted guests than in Book One, especially the curious and secret-spilling Nibling, sending the Moomin household into a tizzy of secrecy and closed doors. In "Moomin Under Sail," theMoomins find themselves without a new adventure until Too-Ticky''s compass gives them the idea to build a boat and head to sea. Finally, we meet the Fuddler in "Fuddler''s Courtship."Mymble captures poor Fuddler''s heart, and his bumbling drives her straight into the arms of Dr.Hatter, the local psychiatrist. Delightfully quirky, the Moomin family does not fare well under the gaze of someone trained in correcting odd behavior.
£999.99
Private Eye Productions Ltd. Private Eye a Cartoon History
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£21.25
Freedom Press (CA) Wildcat: Anarchists Against Bombs
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£5.82
Freedom Press Wildcat Keeps Going
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£6.60
SelfMadeHero Moomins: Moomintroll's Book of Thoughts
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of uplifting musings from the tender and sentimental young Moomintroll, providing some deceptively wise insights from the beloved Moomin stories. Moomintroll is innocent and sincere, with a sharp eye for the small beautiful things in life. He is always considerate of others, even those of us who are most quiet and unassuming. Includes original illustrations by the creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson.
£7.22
SelfMadeHero The Coalition Book
Book SynopsisSince 2010, Martin Rowson has been documenting the highs and lows – mainly the lows – of the Tory-Lib Dem coalition week after week in The Guardian, as well as in The Morning Star, Tribune and many other publications. This book collects Rowson’s best, most brutally funny, cartoons from a period that began with a “big, open, comprehensive offer” to Nick Clegg, continued on through riots, phone-hacking, double-dip recession, and endless debates on Europe, and will end (perhaps) with the general election in 2015. Accompanied by witty explanatory text, The Coalition Book takes a biting satirical look at Cameron and Clegg’s first – and perhaps last – five years in charge. The book contains a foreword by Will Self.Trade ReviewAdvance Praise "An inky ninja running riot in the corridors of power..." Phill Jupitus. "Martin Rowson is a good friend, exceedingly bad enemy. Cameron and Clegg deserve his ConDemNation." Kevin Maguire "Martin Rowson? Best cartoonist working in the UK today. When you've got a vicious bunch of cut throats in power you need cartoonist who is up for the evisceration. Rowson's your man." Mark Thomas "Martin Rowson's cartoons aren't just all sorts of comic genius - their exposure of the wrongdoings of those with power make you want to have a revolution and thus pose a mortal danger to the status quo." Owen Jones "Sending excoriating Exocets straight down at our current leaders, Martin Rowson is a great draughtsman and a sharply well-informed political critic with a wicked eye for detail as well as for the big picture." Polly Toynbee "REVOLUTION! Get Martin Rowson's genius work in front of every pair of eyes in the country, and revolution will surely follow...it's seditious, acerbic, masterly, and TRUE! And a thing of deep, dark beauty. Should be a compulsory text." Pete Wylie, The Mighty Wah!
£17.99
Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd A Pug's Guide to Etiquette
Book SynopsisPugs play by their own set of rules. When you want them to sit, they stand; when you want them to stay, they go; and when you want them to stop eating that unidentified item on the floor, well... Traditional schools of canine thought put this behaviour down to a stubborn refusal to be trained that's inherent in the bred. Not so. This behaviour is, in fact, down to an ancient set of rules, passed down from pug generation to pug generation. A Pug's Guide to Etiquette attempts to explain these rules, thereby advancing pug-human relations to hitherto unprecedented heights.
£999.99
Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd It's a Punderful Life: A Fun Collection of Puns
Book SynopsisHot off the back of her incredibly popular Monday Punday online series, Gemma Correll has surveyed her army of punning fans to create this hilarious collection of her best illustrated puns, as well as loads of new ones. Over the following pages you will see grin-inducing puns such as Wonton Cruelty featuring sadistic dim sum, or rotten eggs hurling abuse at each other. The sweet tooth has brought you some flowers and the seal of approval is very pleased to meet you. With over 50 puns, this book will bring a smile to even the most miserable person’s face.
£9.99
Books By Boxer Love And Passion For The Elderly (Colour)
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£7.22
Strictly Business Ltd You Know You are a Runner
£999.99
September Publishing Times Like These: Scene & Heard: Graphic Reports
Book SynopsisDiscover the truth behind the headlines with this collection of Private Eye's popular reportage column Scene & Heard, including previously unseen sketches and reports. David Ziggy Greene travels the country asking questions and sketching scenes of modern life. His detailed, funny, astute works of graphic reportage - at protests and festivals, cycle rides, farms and prisons - reveal the human cost of policy and the profound local impact of legislation. This new collection of columns also contains much brand new material - including a series of insightful sketches of human hubs such as A&E, the tube and the courts. With a foreword by Mark Thomas.Trade Review'Deceptively intelligent and exceptionally moreish.' Charlie Brooker | `With his beautiful illustrations and incisive words, Greene is one of the most important cartoonists working today.' David Squires, Guardian cartoonist | `For years in the pages of Private Eye `Scene & Heard' has combined to telling effect a journalist's news sense and ear for a quote with an artist's eye for the human condition, once a fortnight, for less than the price of a bog-standard pint in a characterless booze-barn.' Barney Farmer | `Yeah. What he said.' Lee Healey. Viz, The Drunken Bakers | `Unusually for modern journalism, Scene & Heard leaves the reader with more questions than fourth-hand conjecture masquerading as insight. As brutally honest as one might hope. Brilliant.' Rufus Hound | `Fantastic.' Chris Riddell
£11.69
Meze Publishing The Amazing Troll-man: Winding up the world...one
Book SynopsisThe Amazing Troll-Man is a collection of hilarious exchanges between one man with a mission to make us laugh and unsuspecting Facebook users with petty complaints to air. After a very tough period in his life, Wesley Metcalfe rediscovered his passion for comedy and began developing his unique brand as 'The Amazing Troll-Man' on social media, which has gained a combined following of over 300k to date. His first book is a compilation of snippets and stories from his spoof customer service account where angry shoppers get more than they bargained for, with side-splitting results!
£11.51
Parthian Books Cawl
Book SynopsisConsisting of short stories, poems, essays, cartoons and comics, Cawl is an anthology of one multi-prizewinning, funny, angry young man's creative endeavours and social and political frustrations. Traditionally Cawl is a mix of everything thrown into one stew pot and left to simmer, boil over and be savoured. Here Sion Tomos Owen invites the reader to choose what to taste next. The meat of the essays, the parsnip of poetry, the spud of satire or the OXO cube of comedy. Ranging in genre from gritty realism, macabre, sci-fi and comic writing, his is a collection that can be interpreted as an anthology of more than one writer but written by one author. The poems range from short rhyming poems to long free form but consist mainly of valleysbased Cwm on'en butt poetry including a centre-piece reinterpretation of Rhydwen Williams' epic 'In Praise of a Valley' from his Rhondda Poems. The cartoons are a mix of comic-strip style social humour and satirical cartoons, heavily influenced by Martin Rowson, Art Spiegelman and Gren.The essays blend humour and frustrated social commentary on Wales and particularly the political situation in the valleys, and are entrenched in stagnant Labour idealism while hoping for change that can only come from the people themselves.
£8.99
Diamond Publishing Group Ltd Viz Annual 2024: The Barber's Pole: A Heap of
Book SynopsisBack in 1922, when Howard Carter first smashed his way into the tomb of long-dead Egyptian King Tutankhamun, the guttering candle in his hand illuminated a scene of unimaginable splendour. “Can you see anything?” asked Lord Carnarvon.“Yes! Wonderful things!” responded a breathless Carter. Fast forward just over a century, and any adventurer opening a copy of Viz - The Barber’s Pole will be similarly astounded by the comedy gold they will find haphazardly piled up within its covers. Because just like the tomb of an Egyptian Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty, the 226 pages within its stout and glossy covers are packed with priceless treasures. It’s the sort of 24-carrot comedy gold that has made Viz the country’s fourth* or fifth** favourite humorous magazine (* ** possibly sixth) for well over four decades… * Edge-of-seat Adventures: Jack Black and His Dog Silver, Who’s Who in a Medieval Plague Village, Motorhead’s Christmas Adventure, and Bad Bob the Randy Wonderdog. * Shocking scandals about your favourite showbiz stars, Scotch eggs, Deepfake Porn, Tony Blair, and your chance to become a Crypto-Billionaire. * Cartoons: The Fat Slags, Sid the Sexist, Biffa Bacon, Mrs Brady Old Lady, Johnny Fartpants, The Real Ale Twats, Roger Mellie, and Raffles the Gentleman Thug * Readers’ letters and Top Tips, spoof ads, quizzes, games, things to cut out and make, and much more. Obviously, at this point we would like to point out that, unlike King Tut’s burial place, there is no real evidence that Viz has ever been the subject of a deadly curse, placed upon it three thousand years ago by a sinister, hooded priest of the God Thoth. And we consider it very unlikely indeed that anyone who dares to break open the cover of Viz - The Barber’s Pole will simply drop dead from unexplained causes - as Lord Carnarvon did a year to the day after breaking the seal on Tutunkhamun’s tomb. Sorry, no refunds.
£11.89
Diamond Publishing Group Ltd The Wrestlers Neck
Book Synopsis3falls and 226 pages of submissions from a whole year of Britain's funniestmagazine, which has been punching above its weight (when the referee isn'tlooking) since 1979
£999.99
D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd Beano Dandy Gift Book 2026
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£999.99
D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd The Broons Oor Wullie Calendar 2026
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£999.99
Double Storey Dr Do-little and the African Potato: Cartoons
Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of Zaipiro cartoons from the "Mail" & "Guardian", "Sunday Times" and "Independent" newspapers.
£6.79
Double Storey Zapiro: Long Walk to Free Time
Book SynopsisThis title presents a collection of Zaipiro cartoons from the "Mail & Guardian", "Sunday Times" and "Independent Newspapers".Trade Review"Zapiro always has the last word" -Kader Asmal "accurately reflects the political centre of gravity of a county that aspires to speak for all of Africa and often for the entire developing world." -Newsweek "He's one of my greatest inspirations" - Pieter Dirk Uys "...nobody in South Africa can match the ability of the cartoonist Zapiro to slice all the way to the funny bone." -John Perlman, SAfm "We should all heave a sigh of relief that he wields a pen and not a spear." The Star"
£999.99
Godwit Media Birding Cartoons
£999.99
MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc. You Might Be from Nova Scotia If ...
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£17.95
Macintyre Purcell Publishing Inc You Might Be from Saskatchewan If... (Vol 2):
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£999.99
MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc. You Might Be from Alberta If...
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£999.99
John Wiley & Sons Inc Drawn to Golf
Book SynopsisRoger Schillerstrom’s Drawn to Golf is a different "look" at the game we love. For almost 20 years, Roger Schillerstrom has been providing editorial cartoons to several of the most respected and well-read publications produced by Crain Communications. In 1995, Golfweek magazine (another Crain product) asked Schillerstrom to turn his creative eye toward the game of golf and create cartoons to complement its weekly "commentary" pages. The pairing was an immediate success and it continues to this day. Drawn to Golf is a carefully selected collection of the most clever and insightful cartoons that Roger has produced for Golfweek over the past eight years. Few, if any, of golf’s most controversial, comical, or sad moments have been overlooked. From the stunning emergence of possibly the greatest player ever – Tiger Woods – to the tragic loss of fan-favorite Payne Stewart. From Jean Van de Velde’s collapse at Carnoustie, to David Duval’s breakthrough at the British Open. And from hot balls heading down the fairway, to hot tempers at the Solheim Cup.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Georgia on My Mind. No Respect, I Tell Ya. Tea for Three (Other Majors). Tale of a Tiger. Hands Across the Water. There’s Gold in Them Thar Hills! Lady Players Golfing with Annika. Rules, Rules, Rules. Ride or Wrong? ‘Nuff Said.
£999.99
Wine Appreciation Guild Gone with the Wine: The Vinous Stylings of Doug
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£11.99
Jorge Pinto Books Las Aventuras de Olmeco Beuys
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£999.99
Cameron & Company Inc Oh, Sure! Blame It on the Dog!: A Pickles
Book SynopsisGetting old is not for sissies. But as Brian Crane's crotchety but endearing seniors Earl and Opal Pickles do it, it can be humorous and often touching. For over twenty years, Crane's comic strip, Pickles, has been delighting readers around the world. This sixth collection continues the adventures of grandparents Earl and Opal; their precocious grandson, Nelson; quirky family members and friends; and the family's dog and cat, who offer their own distinctive views of the goings-on. Crane's view of the foibles of a long-married, often cantankerous couple and their extended family and friends is wry, honest, and always warmhearted.
£14.30
Cameron & Company Inc 25 Years of Pickles
Book SynopsisGetting old is not for sissies. But as Brian Crane's crotchety but endearing seniors Earl and Opal Pickles do it, it can be humorous and often touching. For over twenty-five years, Crane's comic strip, Pickles, has been delighting readers around the world. This seventh collection continues the adventures of grandparents Earl and Opal; their precocious grandson, Nelson; quirky family members and friends; and the family's dog and cat, who offer their own distinctive views of the goings-on. Crane's view of the foibles of a long-married, often cantankerous couple and their extended family and friends is wry, honest, and always warm-hearted.Trade Review"The logic of Earl. That's my favorite part of Pickles. Or maybe it's the straight talk of Opal. OR the naivete of Nelson. Hard to choose. It's certainly not the fact that the older I get, the more I recognize myself in Pickles." --Rick Kirkman, co-creator of Baby Blues "Pickles is one of my all-time favorite comic strips, and Brian Crane is one of my all-time favorite cartoonists. Pickles is original, funny, fresh ... nice without being corny, warm without being sappy. I don't know how he does it day after day. There is something for everyone here ... I don't know anyone, of any age, who doesn't love Pickles. It's an honor to share the funny pages with such a great strip." --Jan Eliot, creator of the comic strip Stone Soup "Pickles creator, Brian Crane, entertains us with recognizable and sympathetic characters we all can relate to. We all have an 'Earl and Opal' in our extended families, and Brian brings out the humor of their relationship without resorting to the trite and obvious. And I love it when the dog gets the last word ... life as it should be." --Jean Schulz, founder of the Charles M. Schulz Museum
£14.45
Cameron & Company Inc Pickles Tails Volume Two: Subtitle The Hijinks of
Book SynopsisPickles Tails Volume II is the second installment of Brian Crane’s Pickles strips dedicated to the hijinks of the beloved Pickles family pets, Roscoe and Muffin! This collection begins in 2008 and moves ahead through 2020, and includes over 300 fully colorized pages and 115 Sunday Strips. Pickles Tails Volume II has all of the beloved Pickles characters as they share all the warmth and antics you have come to expect from the hilarious Pickles family and their favorite furry friends.
£999.99
Pencil Rough Productions The Usual Growth Spurt
£999.99
Deep Vellum Publishing Reading Quirks
Book SynopsisWho hasn’t peeked over the shoulder of the person reading next to them on the subway, curious about the book in their hands? Who doesn’t secretly love skipping the party to stay home and read? Who hasn’t daydreamed of catching the eye of a future significant other as you discover from across the room that you’re reading the same book? If you’re a reader, you know you’ve been there, and probably in so many other weird places as well, right? That’s what happens with readers, they have these strange traits, these particular ways, that separate them from the rest. Reading Quirks explores, in 72 lighthearted four-frame cartoons, all these weird things readers do, from the existential dilemma of picking your next read to the frustrations of watching an overzealous dog-earer in action. The series was written and created by a bookstore in Dallas, The Wild Detectives, originally as a social media campaign—a way to connect with other readers over a shared understanding of what it means to be crazy about books. Laura Pacheco’s adorable illustrations introduce a cast of endearing characters, whose flaws and obsessions range from disarming good nature to mischievous playfulness. Reading Quirks is a witty and light-hearted ode to the immense pleasure of reading and its resulting byproduct: neurosis.Trade Review"A charming paean to the not-yet-bygone act of reading books—both lighthearted and wonderfully reverent, this lovely book is a fantastic gift for all your favorite book-reading nerds. (And if you're one of them, don't deny yourself.)” –Merritt Tierce, author of Love Me Back and writer for Orange is the New Black "Finding books to gift the bookworm/bookdragon in your life can be difficult. Have they already read it? Do they already own it but can't remember it because it's buried in a crowded bookshelf or in one of their many towering piles (or hidden in the trunk of their car so their partner won't realize just how much money they've spent...no? Just me?)? If this describes you or someone you even remotely care about, then Reading Quirks is a must buy and must read. The adorable book themed vignettes will call to any lover of books, who will recognize themselves immediately in the pages." - Kate Towery, Fountain Books "A bible for the fellowship of readers worldwide… Every page will make you laugh, cry for a finished book, and feel again the company of all the other human beings on this planet who know the importance of pockets big enough to fit paperbacks, that the hardest part of a breakup is losing her half of the books, and that a broken ankle is only an opportunity to read without interruption. Funny, warm, and full of keen wit, Reading Quirks provides solace in these all-too-bookless times.” –Louisa Hall, author of Speak and Trinity “A lighthearted collection of cartoons about the kinds of strange little habits common among those who love to read.”-Dan Singer, Dallas Morning News
£15.30
ELM Grove Publishing The Animal Kingdom: Original Cartoons by Scott
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£999.99
Clash Books The New Yorker Hates My Cartoons
Book SynopsisA Darkly Humorous Collection of Cartoons Rejected by The New Yorker
£12.42
Silver Sprocket Please Destroy The Internet
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£8.54
Clover Press We Should Improve Society Somewhat: A Collection
Book SynopsisMatt Bors makes the bold declaration that We Should Improve Society Somewhat in thiscollection of comics from The Nib's Editor and Publisher, Matt Bors. Bors has beenworking as a cartoonist for more than a decade, and this new collection captures a mixof his timely strips based on today's incredibly politically-divided environment, alongwith a curated selection of his timelessly funny earlier strips.There's never been a better time to get off Twitter and pick up a book! (Seriouslysomeone please tell him to get off Twitter and read a book).
£17.09
Clover Press Popeye Variations: Not Yer Pappy's Comics an' Art
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£27.54
Clover Press Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens: The Complete Tom the
Book SynopsisThis new collection of Tom The Dancing Bug presents all of cartoonist Ruben Bolling''s acclaimed weekly comic strips from 2012-2015. This volume includes some of the comic's most lauded installments, including political cartoons about the latter Obama term and the beginnings of the Trump phenomenon, the introduction of the comic's popular Chagrin Falls feature, some of its most beloved Super-Fun-Pak Comix, the continuing adventures of God-Man, the Omnipotent Superhero, and much more.
£17.09
Clover Press Tom the Dancing Bug Eat the Poor: The Complete
Book SynopsisClover Press's Complete Tom the Dancing Bug program marches on with the fifth chronological volume (and third volume published to date), covering every installment of the award-winning (and two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist) comic strip, from 2007-2011. This volume covers the years of Obama's election and The Great Recession, with a particular focus on Lucky Ducky, the Poor Little Duck Who's Rich in Luck. But the topics also range far from the political and topical, into waffle irons, drunk shirtless guys, and particle accelerators. And of course, it also features Tom the Dancing Bug favorites like God-Man, Super-Fun-Pak Comix, Billy Dare, Boy Adventurer, and Charley the Australopithecine. It also includes other comics Ruben Bolling created during those years: a Recession-themed comic created for Harper's Magazine; and the legendary, insane Toy Story/Cormac McCarthy mashup he did for The Village Voice.
£17.09
Rocketship Entertainment Undeaded: The Graveyard Edition
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£16.99
Warren Publishing, Inc A Little Levity Never Hurts
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£999.99
Over-Sixty: Shades of Gray LLC Our Coronavirus Diary
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£999.99
Random House USA Inc Excuse Me: Cartoons, Complaints, and Notes to
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£999.99
Black Panel Press Inc Animals Rule This Land
Book Synopsis The world has ended, you're the only human left in a village full of erratic, freshly-evolved animals, and a maniacal rabbit in a vest is gifting you a blood-covered toaster. They say they want to be friends, so why are you constantly being drugged and threatened by henchmen, kidnapped and insulted by the dog next door, and falling prey to a seemingly friendly duck who''s running an unnecessarily complicated bread scam? The animals have taken over, and it's time to pay the price for drinking all that milk, eating all those eggs, and coveting an unquantifiable amount of chicken nuggets. And where the hell did your cat go? If you like watching Saturday morning cartoons under the influence, or prefer your animals double-crossing, you''re sure to enjoy Animals Rule This Land. Here comes contemporary Australian cartoonist Luke Milton and his ragtag band of miscreants in his debut graphic novel Animals Rule This Land.
£999.99
Hazetoonz Graphic Novelties Bug's Life: The life story of one little car
£999.99
Vents d'Ouest Marie-Lune 2/Au secours, j'ai perdu ma meilleure
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£999.99
Hachette Children's Group Le ciel lui tombe sur la tete
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£14.01
£38.00
