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"A poignant and instructive guide for all aspiring graphic memoirists detailing the artistry and story-telling inherent in the medium. Hart examines what makes a graphic memoir great, and shows you how to do it. With two dozen professional examples and a deep-dive into his own story, Hart encourages readers to hone their signature style in the best way to represent their journeys on the page."--Provided by publisher.
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Dunlop Fantasia has a passion for marketing, excellent ideas, hovercrafts and avoiding rehab. A dark, complicated family upbringing sets him on course for early divorce, a blunder with his father's mistress, making TV shows, the heartbreaking death of a manservant, pursuit of celebrity endorsements and winning respect for his growing advertising empire. Follow his satirical exploration of wealth, self-help advice, business success, gritty optimism...
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From everyone's favorite TikTok oracle, Devrie Donalson (aka @devriebrynn), comes a hearty dose of her sometimes jaded, always funny, and surprisingly soulful wisdom. For fans of Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson and Everything's Trash, But It's Ok by Phoebe Robinson.
Through her TikTok videos, Devrie has chronicled only a small part of her journey as a single woman-leaving her unsatisfying life behind and flying to Scotland in pursuit of a version...
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Millions of Americans want to write about their lives. With this book as the road map for getting started and following through, writers and readers will gain a deeper understanding of their own minds, learn to connect with their senses in order to find the detail and truth that give their written words power and authenticity, and unfold the natural structure of the stories they carry within. Through timed, associative, and meditative exercises, writing...
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Nose Hairs Gone Wild reads like a memoir, at once hilarious and poignant. From beginning to end, this collection of essays about seemingly random topics is funny, fascinating, but never flip. This book is for anyone who can read! Scott can do what all the funny guys do - he finds humor in the everyday, but Scott one-ups the rest of them. Nose Hairs Gone Wild contains 31 of Saalman's finest essays. Inspired by syndicated humorists like Dave Barry and...
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THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE FISHY is a joint effort between two cousins in their tweens that has been in production for almost seven years. The spy spoof story was inspired by a visit to the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC in 2010. The author, Shelby Williams, spent the next three years acting out various scenes from her on-going story of intrepid koi fish who are really secret spies. Her grandmother, Mary Schaller, kept notes of all Shelby's...
27) Mental
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Eddie Sarfaty's astute and acerbic stand-up effortlessly captures the everyday absurdities of life, blending self-deprecation and sarcasm with a razor-sharp instinct for the ridiculous. In Mental, he expands his hilarious insights into a collection of autobiographical essays that explore career lows, cheapskate exes, the wonder and hell of family, psychopathic felines, and so much more. . .
Whether recounting a family trip to Paris, where his ailing...
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D'étranges évènements viennent bouleverser la quiétude de la ville d'Arlon, au coeur de la province de Luxembourg : des morceaux de corps humains sont retrouvés, sanguinolant dans divers endroits de la ville. Que signifient ces crimes ? Pourquoi cette une mise en scène si sordide ? Un sérial killer rode dans la bourgade luxembourgeoise et terrorise ses habitants ! Sous l'oeil avisé – mais légèrement imbibé de maitrank - de Jean-Luc Fonck,...
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Suburgatory lampoons the absurdities and contradictions that Linda Keenan has witnessed since leaving New York City, where she was a thoroughly urban CNN news producer for seven years, and settling down as a hapless stay-at-home suburban mother. The original proposal for this book was picked up by Warner Brothers, and you can see their imagining of Suburgatory on the ABC show of the same title. Keenan was forced by the man in her life to leave her...
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In a world where eye cream is made from placenta, Gina Barreca is the lone voice calling out "But wait, whose placenta is it?" She asks the crucial questions: Why is there no King Charming? Why does no bra ever fit? Why are there no tutus in XL? Why do more intelligent women have trusted psychics than have trusted financial advisors? While she definitely wants everyone to know that she's not bitter, Gina does want to know why no one realizes that...
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Readers are invited to join a typical busy family for one year of hysterical and true-life interruptions. Their beloved pets create more havoc and chaos than deserved with harrowing trips to the veterinarian, injuries, and quirky personalities of their own. Add in the wildlife who regularly appear (pigs, skunks, muskrats, mice and occasional "two-legged" animal) and readers will be shaking their heads in incredulous disbelief, and snorting at the...
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An incomparable collection of wit and wisdom from a master of comic writing After creating the popular Franglais! series, Miles Kington always had an ambition: to write a book in English as well. An endlessly curious and observant hack", as he described himself, here a gentle wit and wide-ranging intelligence are brought to bear on everything from the curious geography of Jersey to anthropological studies on German prisoners of war; from an interview...
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The origins of 'How to Make a Garden Grow' lie in an article in 'The Strand' Magazine called 'A Highly Complicated Science'. The science referred to was that of gardening and the article by K. R. G. Browne was accompanied by nine of Heath Robinson's drawings, all of which were subsequently used in their book for the How To... series. Much of the subject matter for this book was drawn from Heath Robinson's earlier cartoons. For example, among his earliest...
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Before Google, there was only one place for a young person to find the answers to life's great mysteries: rock 'n' roll and comic books. Funny, touching, and thoughtful, Rock 'n' Roll & Comic Books Taught Me All I Know by Rob Errera is a collection of essays spanning topics as diverse as The Incredible Hulk, Spiderman on Broadway, Wu Tang Clan, professional sports, unprofessional parenting, questionable life choices, fake nostalgia, literary idols,...
36) Meanderings
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Betty McKenzie-Tubb has been scribbling since youth, beginning with contributions to the Sydney Morning Herald and to the ABC radio programme The Argonauts. She was Ancona 49 and wrote regularly to 'Anthony Inkwell'. Degrees in Education and Arts have helped nourish her writing. She spent most of her working life as a teacher of the deaf, for whom the door to literacy is sometimes difficult to open. She is grateful to Montaigne, the father of the...
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Kinky Friedman, who would be our contemporary Will Rogers if Will Rogers had been Jewish, smoked cigars, and foolish enough to believe he could govern the great state of Texas, returns with this collection of hilariously raunchy, sometimes poignant, and always insightful essays. With fearless wit and wisdom born from many a late night's experience, Kinky offers both pearls and cowpats that touch on life, death, and everything in between.
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C'est le 1er septembre 2010, le jour même de ses 40 ans, que Jérme de Warzée distille sa première chronique sur les ondes de Vivacité. Chaque matin, il brocarde tour à tour ces "froucheleurs" de politiciens, ces "barakis" de supporters et ces "Ménapiens extrémiss", tentant l'équilibre entre écriture polysémique et vitriolée mais toujours au second degré, sarcasmes, jeux de mots et vérités (?). Cet ouvrage renferme quelques-uns de ses...
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I probably watch too much news, read too many newspapers, magazines, and blogs, and have too many conversations with people about politics. Often in my mind, I consider myself better than politicians. I may be better than some but not all of them. What I notice is that I make similar mistakes to those in charge. Because of this, I'm willing to say I'm not perfect. And I have the experiences to prove it. Join me in a journey to tell people why I should...
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From the first time he strapped on a tool belt to the last time he required first aid, Steve was involved with every aspect of the alarm industry and lived to tell about it. Throughout his twenty-five years in the field, Steve dealt with angry pets, furious consumers and more than his share of the insect world while providing a much needed but usually under-appreciated service to his customers. His insight into human behavior forces us to take a good...
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