Collection: Adult

Jack Davis and Wallace Wood's crazed cartooning in Mad changed the art form, and comedy itself, forever. But their gonzo parody work in Mad's sister satire title, Panic, published at the same time, is less well-known. To invert that injustice, this volume of The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library presents all their zany, pun-packed Panic lampoonery, especially their pomposity-puncturing movie parodies, including Davis's "My Gun Is the Jury!" "Come Back, Little Street Car!", "A Star Is Corn" and Wood's "African Scream!", "Gone With The Widow," and "20,000 Leaks Under The Sea."

These visual volleys are verbalized by Al Feldstein (editor of Panic, later editor of Mad) and Jack Mendelsohn (prolific cartoonist and writer whose non-comics credits include TV's Laugh-In and The Beatles' Yellow Submarine). But the laughs don't languish. Also included is the never-before-reprinted "V-Vampires," a riotous romp written by the legendary Harvey Kurtzman and drawn by Wood that vanished after its initial appearance more than 70 years ago!

Now in a collectible hardcover edition featuring gorgeous full-color endpapers, a foiled and embossed jacket, and an exclusive designed hardcover case.

The highly anticipated never-before-published final book in the Kindred's Curse Saga, a slow-burn, epic romantasy series following one woman who must risk everything to save her family--and all of mortalkind.

War has overtaken Emarion. In the north, Ophiucae and his army of bloodthirsty mortals seek to eradicate all Descended from the continent. In the south, the Guardians of the Everflame lie in wait, plotting a rebellion generations overdue.

In Lumnos, Realm of Light and Shadow, the Crowns are gathering. Caught between two deadly foes, they must form an unlikely alliance to save their people.

But the Crowns have a secret--and a heart without its mate will burn the world down to fulfill its fate.

Hatred reigns. Hope seems lost. With the future in darkness, can a flame emerge to bring the light?

From Michelin tires to Big Macs, this hefty volume illuminates key marketing strategies from BETC, one of the world's best advertising agencies

With 950 illustrations across more than 1,000 pages, this robust paperback documents the life and times of creative firm BETC, named 2024's "World's Best Agency" by the World Advertising Research Center. Founder Rémi Babinet rhapsodizes on commissions for its most notable clients, including Evian, Lacoste, Air France and McDonald's. The short, offbeat yet thoughtful essays trace the challenges behind forming a universal narrative, in a world where the use of images and words is continually reshaped. Far from being just for advertisers, No Ads Please resonates with every creative connoisseur, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the slogans and images that have shaped the collective imagination.
Rémi Babinet founded BETC in 1994 and was ranked among the top 10 best creative directors since the birth of advertising by Forbes magazine. The agency has a presence in Paris, New York, São Paulo, London and Shanghai.

"An Agatha Christie mystery wrapped up in an Emily Henry romance." --Maine Public Radio, Northeast Corner

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER

What are the chances of receiving a love letter and an engagement ring for a perfect stranger, only to see that same woman murdered the very next day?

It's 1964 in the tiny town of Eastport, Maine, and Billie McCadie is bored to death. She's surrounded by dull people with more manners than sense, and no sign of the intrigue or romance that fill her beloved novels. That is, until an engagement ring and cryptic love letter turn up, addressed to "Gertrude." Until she meets yacht-club handsome Avery Webster. Until the unsettling phone calls and visits from a man in a fedora begin. Until she's one of the last people to see Gertrude alive . . . and the first to see her dead.

What follows is an intoxicating cocktail of stalking, blackmail, Jell-O salads, and champagne secrets, all served along the rocky Maine coastline. Everyone is a suspect. Everyone has a secret. And (strangely) everyone has a boat. But who is willing to kiss and tell? As the body count rises and the danger nears, why does Billie feel like she's more than just a side character? After yearning to be in the action for so long, would it be terribly unladylike to have some fun of her own?

A love letter to uncivilized behavior, Etiquette for Lovers and Killers blends mystery and romance into a witty, twisty, murderous delight that aches for better manners.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SING BACKWARDS AND WEEP
'Expressionistic and visceral . . . exhilarating and unexpectedly funny' THE I PAPER

Poetic, raw, hallucinogenic and darkly witty, Devil in a Coma charts Mark Lanegan's terrifying, mind-expanding experience of acute illness and the confrontation it forces with mortality itself.

Struck down by Covid-19, drifting in and out of a coma, unable to walk and given little hope of survival, these diaries see Lanegan assaulted by nightmares, visions and regrets about an existence lived on the edge of chaos and disorder. In arresting prose and at times transcendent poetry, Devil in a Coma is one man's intimate reckoning with a lifetime spent cheating death.

Step inside the U.S.S. Cerritos and discover Starfleet like you've never seen it before!

Boldly go behind the scenes of the hit animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks with this dazzling art companion. Packed with never-before-seen designs, sketches, and stories from the creators themselves, this book is your all-access pass to the heart of the fan-favorite series.

• Meet the Lower Deckers Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford, and Tendi--see how their personalities shaped their look and feel.
• Command with the Bridge Crew Captain Freeman, Ransom, Dr. T'Ana, and Shaxs--brought to life through bold concept art and expressive character studies.
• Explore the Cerritos From the bridge to the bar, engineering to the transporter bay, witness the creativity behind every corner of Starfleet's hardest-working ship.
• Relive unforgettable episodes with in-depth breakdowns of characters, ships, and locations that make Lower Decks a one-of-a-kind Trek experience.

Complete with exclusive commentary from the art team, this collection reveals the passion, humor, and behind-the-scenes stories that power the Lower Decks universe.

For fans, this isn't just an art book--it's a warp-speed journey into the heart of Starfleet's funniest, most fearless crew.

AS SEEN ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA

The CEOs behind Sesame Street bring you the inspirational and life-changing lessons and parenting insights that successful people learned from their moms.

The first and most important teacher in life is mom. Her lessons start in early childhood and last a lifetime. Behind many successful people is a mother who gave her child the example, the insights, and the drive that helped them live their extraordinary life and become a better parent themselves.

In this inspiring book, the past and present CEOs of Sesame Workshop, the producer of Sesame Street, capture the stories and love these remarkable people have for their own mothers and how this shaped their lives. This book is a love letter to mothers everywhere.

Learn how Al Roker, Ali Wentworth, Anna Cathcart, Chelsea Clinton, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford, Clarissa Ward, Danny Meyer, Darren Walker, Diane von Furstenberg, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Hoda Kotb, Kaia Gerber, Katie Couric, Ken Burns, Kevin Nealon, Laura Jarrett, Ms. Rachel, Noah Kahan, Robin Roberts, Soledad O'Brien, Steve Guttenberg, Susan Wojcicki, Tatyana McFadden, Téa Leoni, Tory Burch, and Governor Wes Moore found their lives shaped by the lessons they learned from their mom.

"作为"中国符号"系列图书的第二部，《东方有龙》不仅是一本图书,更像是一次文化之旅。

如果问你龙长什么样子，你会如何回答?

你是否对龙充满了好奇?

龙在中国代表什么?

中国人为什么那么爱龙?

带着对龙文化的热爱，我们从八千多年前的龙传奇说起，给孩子建立一个全面的关于"龙"的知识体系。

1.以龙之名，追寻中华文明的成长足迹

全书以我们中华民族的象征"龙"为主题，囊括文学、历史、建筑、艺术、文物等方面，在介绍龙的同时，还有各种与龙相关的现代文化依次登场，全面开启孩子中华传统文化的探索之旅。

2.关于中国龙科普的近乎全面覆盖

这是一本关于中国龙科普知识的百科全书，书中从龙的起源讲起，包括龙的种类、血脉及相关神兽，涵盖了建筑、文物、节日、生肖，以及文学作品等多方面知识。除此之外，还结合相关内容延伸多类知识点。帮助孩子全面了解中国的"龙文化"，更好地传承龙的精神。

3.变神像化为具象化将龙从"天上"拉至"凡间"

我们要打破人们传统观念中龙的神秘"人设"从方方面面对龙进行了一个揭秘。让孩子与龙进行一场深度"对话"，将龙从"天上"拉至"凡间"，让孩子全面了解我们中华龙文化的魅力。

4.内容严谨考究，精挑细选满足孩子对龙的无限好奇心

创作团队精选了中华传统文化中龙的相关知识点，且每个知识点都有出处，严谨可靠。一本书可以满足孩子对于龙的无限好奇心，还有很多冷知识等你发现。

5.新国风绘画与"龙"精神完美契合还原中华文化中"龙"该有的样子

我们既兼顾传统韵味,又融入现代动感，色彩温润大气，场景构图新颖有创意，让孩子一看就能感受到龙在中华文明中所代表的精气神儿。威严正气、睿智、勇敢，这才是中华文化中"龙"该有的样子。

我们作为华夏子孙、龙的传人，龙对我们的意义深远。"龙"贯穿中国传统文化的始终，并传承至今。要让孩子真正读懂"龙"，理解中国龙文化，形成民族自豪感，构建出中国人的世界观和价值观的家长，可以读这本真正属于中国龙的百科全书。

An engaging 700-year history of meat at the intersection of German and Jewish culture, uniquely illuminating the rich, fraught, and tragic history of German Jewry.

In Judaism, meat is of paramount importance as it constitutes the very focal point of the dietary laws. With an intricate set of codified regulations concerning forbidden and permissible meats, highly prescribed methods of killing, and elaborate rules governing consumption, meat is one of the most visible, and gustatory, markers of Jewish distinctness and social separation. It is an object of tangible, touchable, and tastable difference like no other.

In All Consuming, historian John M. Efron focuses on the contested culture of meat and its role in the formation of ethnic identities in Germany. To an extent not seen elsewhere in Europe, Germans have identified, thought about, studied, decried, and gladly eaten meat understood to be "Jewish." Expressions of this engagement are found across the cultural landscape--in literature, sculpture, and visual arts--and are evident in legal codes and commercial enterprises. Likewise, Jews in Germany have vigorously defended their meats and the culture and rituals surrounding them by educating Germans and Jews alike about their meaning and relevance.

Exploring a cultural history that extends some seven hundred years, from the Middle Ages to today, Efron goes beyond a discussion of dietary laws and ritual slaughter to take a broad view of what meat can tell us about German-Jewish identity and culinary culture, Jewish and Christian religious sensibilities, and religious freedom for minorities in Germany. In so doing, he provides a singular window into the rich, fraught, and ultimately tragic history of German Jewry.

A sweeping, definitive work of history exploring the road to the September 1968 protests of the Miss American Pageant--one led by women's liberationists and the other organized by the emergent Miss Black America Pageant--and the birth of a new politics of beauty.

A revolution was brewing. In the dying days of the summer of 1968, during one unprecedented Pageant weekend, Atlantic City played host not only to the fifty young contestants and thousands of eager visitors who had arrived in town for the Miss America crowning, but also to the first Miss Black America Pageant, mounted to protest its "lily-white" sister competition, as well as raucous actions from women's liberationists. For just a few hours, the boardwalk became a site of vigorously contested ideas--ideas that would redefine the women's movement and reverberate across American culture.

Now, Pulitzer Prize finalist Micki McElya unfolds the full scope of this history, detailing the shocking injustices and passionate debates that led to the demonstrations, as well as the broader social and political landscape that gave rise to some of the most iconic women on both sides of the ideological spectrum. Here, we find complex portraits of Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Florynce Kennedy, Phyllis Schlafly, and Anita Bryant as well as glimpses of Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Lewis, Vanessa Williams, and Donald Trump years before they became the public figures we know them as today.

Immersive, galvanizing, and endlessly edifying, Liberation Summer is also a kaleidoscopic panorama of the year that saw the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, the Tet Offensive and the escalation of the Vietnam War, violence at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, and the election of Richard Nixon. Within this ever-shifting terrain, lesser-known characters like reporter Charlotte Curtis, radical feminist organizers Robin Morgan and Carol Hanisch, Miss America 1968 Debra Barnes, and the first Miss Black America Saundra Williams fought to not only define their conception of ideal womanhood, but to live it.

Engagingly told and meticulously researched, Liberation Summer proves how the battle for beauty's meaning has always been inextricably political--and how its enduring impact continues to shape our politics today.

MICHAEL MORPURGO'S FIRST BOOK OF ADULT NON-FICTION IN FORTY YEARS.
A GUARDIAN AND TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2025

'Uplifting and enchanting. A celebration of life by our master story-teller.' JOANNA LUMLEY
'Spring is a delight. His love and knowledge of the countryside are profound. We are all the richer for what he sees.' PHILIP PULLMAN

And there, as I struggle to open the gate, I happen to glance down and see it. Frog spawn! Clumps of it, floating like grey slimy sponges on the surface of the puddle. I crouch down to be close to it, to the beginning of new life.

Michael Morpurgo has lived on a farm deep in rural Devon for more than forty years. In Spring, he observes the season unfold around him, as fragile new shoots emerge, buds turn to blossom and grey skies give way to blue.

As the natural world shakes off a long winter, Michael watches lambs being born on the farm, delights in a fanfare of bluebells in the woods, and sings to the birds, dressed in his wellies and dressing gown. He shares small moments of joy found in the back garden, as well as more dramatic encounters with sparrowhawks, hares and otters.

With new poems and reminiscences about childhood and springs gone by, this is an enchanting memoir of a season from one of the world's best-loved authors.

From Terrell Carter, a standout on Tyler Perry's new Netflix drama Beauty in Black as Varney, Problem Child is a heart-wrenching story that will take you on an emotional rollercoaster ride that makes the Twilight Zone look like Disneyland.

Problem Child is the unbelievably true story of Terrell Carter, an American musician and actor who grew up in Buffalo, New York, in a dysfunctional family, each member crazier than the next. And the Problem Child is the only one in the story who may, or may not, actually have a problem. An emotional journey of trials and revelations, with a huge secret at its core, this story may force you to laugh--just to keep from crying.

"Terrell, we're still feeling the goosebumps."--Quincy Jones

"My beautiful baby boy, even more beautiful on the inside, and he sings even better than that. Now Ms. Patti is giving him his wings to fly among the greats."--Patti LaBelle

The global context of a feminist movement

The #MeToo movement is most famous for the US celebrities it took to task for sexual crimes--Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and Matt Lauer, to name a few. Mainstream representations of #MeToo frame it as a global feminist campaign that originated in the US and focused on high-profile American actors and executives. But the debates about gender-based violence that #MeToo catalyzed were felt worldwide. Despite the global uptick of the movement, there are very few feminist accounts of the transnational politics of #MeToo.

This anthology frames #MeToo as a movement with uneven itineraries, goals, and outcomes. The essays in this volume take a transnational and comparative feminist approach to #MeToo, focusing on the multiple ways that feminist voices from Argentina, Egypt, India, Pakistan, South Korea, the US, and the UK have pushed the boundaries of what counts as politics, justice, solidarity, violence, precarity, and vulnerability. In doing so, this volume shows how an engagement with #MeToo allows us to extend and sharpen the empirical, theoretical, and methodological parameters of transnational feminist thought. A blend of global activist and academic work, #MeToo and the Politics of Transnational Feminism offers a necessary transnational framing of the #MeToo movement.

A powerful testament to writing as an act of beauty and rebellion that speaks truth and condemns violent legacies and a feverish ode that weaves together personal and national history to finally find healing.

This evocative novel from a great figure of Malagasy literature tells the story of Hira, a writer born on the seventh anniversary of Madagascar's independence. He wanders through different cities on a book tour, but the experience is amnesiac and confusing. There is a past he is trying to reckon with, filled with violence against both his family and country. He runs from his wife and represses his memories until it all explodes in fever dreams and a vomit of words. But to write the rebirth that he yearns for, Hira must write of his father's torture, his tortured island, and how both were juxtaposed to his own happy childhood. In combing through these various pasts, he might make the same mistake his father did: trying to change the world but leaving his own family broken.

Drawing from the lived experience of both the author and his parents, the violence of both life and language, and the stories of both myth and history, Return is a search for an individual's place within larger collective trauma. Infused with Raharimanana's signature poeticism and intensity, this is a masterwork by an as-yet-overlooked but essential voice in the postcolonial tradition.