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English
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With a popular comic strip, card line, and children's cartoon to her name, Lucy Brighton should be in a happy place. But the ache of a cold, lonely childhood lingers on. Even though she still lives in the New Jersey house where she grew up, Lucy has had little contact with her parents since they moved to Florida five years ago. Then Lucy receives a call that her parents have been killed in a car crash. While settling their affairs in Florida, Lucy...
2) Reputations
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
An influential political cartoonist is paid an unexpected visit by a young woman who upends his sense of personal history and forces him to reevaluate his life, work, and position in the world.
Author
Publisher
Michael Di Capua Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
185 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jimmy has one thing going for him. Though he's no good at sports and not much better in school, he can draw. Which is what he does. Day and night. Comic books. Jimmy's dream is to be a great cartoonist someday, even greater than Walt Disney. Father thinks Jimmy is wasting his time. And Mother, well, her mind is always on something else, so she isn't much help ... "--front jacket flap.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Take the format of a spy thriller, shape it around real-life incidents involving international terrorism, leaven it with dark, dry humor, toss in a love rectangle, give everybody a gun, and let everything play out in the outer reaches of upstate New York [where a Danish cartoonist is relocated after having been involved in the controversy surrounding a depiction of Muhammad]"--Amazon.com.
5) Artsy-Fartsy
Author
Series
Aldo Zelnick comic novels volume 1
Publisher
Bailiwick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (160 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Aldo Zelnick is not an athlete like his older brother or a rock collector like his best friend; he's just a regular kid who likes to draw. One summer Aldo's grandma, Goosy, gives him a sketchbook in which to record all of his ideas and adventures, and Aldo quickly discovers how much fun cartooning is. From petitioning for a neighborhood pool slide to his passion for slushies, Aldo illustrates his summer vacation, wacky friends, and loving family...
10) Just breathe
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Language
English
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With Chicago and her marriage in the rearview mirror, cartoonist Sarah Moon flees to the small northern California coastal town where she grew up. As she comes to terms with her lost marriage, Sarah encounters a man she never expected to meet again: Will Bonner, the high school heartthrob she'd skewered mercilessly in her old comics. Now a local firefighter, he's been through some changes himself. But just as her heart is about to reawaken, Sarah...
11) New kid
Author
Series
New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (272 pages)
Language
English
Description
In Manhattan of 1948, a famous former striptease artist named Maggie Starr runs her late husband's newspaper syndicate, distributing the superhero comic Wonder Guy. But when the cartoon's publisher winds up dead, Maggie hunts for the killer among a cast of cartoonists, wives and mistresses, and minions of a different sort of syndicate - a crew of suspects with motives that are far from super-heroic. Hailed by Mickey Spillane as "a terrific writer,"...
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 790L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Zelda Jackson—or Jackie—was born in Pittsburgh on August 1, 1911, and discovered early on that she could draw any adventure. A field she could run through as far as her hand could draw. An ocean she could color as blue as she liked. As she grew, Jackie put her artistic talents to use, doodling and chronicling daily life for her high school yearbook. But she was already dreaming of bigger things. Jackie would go on to create bold and witty cartoon...
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Language
English
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A finely wrought coming-of-age memoir about the author's relationship with her beloved grandfather Joe Simon, cartoonist and co-creator of Captain America.
In the 1990s, Megan Margulies's Upper West Side neighborhood was marked by addicts shooting up in subway stations, frequent burglaries, and the "Wild Man of 96th Street," who set fires under cars and heaved rocks through stained glass church windows. The world inside her parents' tiny one-bedroom...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Book club ed.
Physical Desc
370 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The definitive biography of the greatest cartoonist of the Greatest Generation. [He] defied army censors, German artillery, and Patton's pledge to 'throw his ass in jail' to deliver his wildly popular cartoon, 'Up Front,' to the pages of Stars and Stripes."--From publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
416 pages 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee, an artist and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture at a steep personal cost. Stan Lee-born Stanley Martin Lieber in 1922-is one of the most beloved and influential entertainers to emerge from the twentieth century. He served as editor in chief of Marvel Comics for three decades and, in that time, launched more pieces of internationally recognizable intellectual property...
17) Chasing Amy
Series
Criterion collection volume 75
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Holden thinks Alyssa is the woman of his dreams but she has someone a little different in mind--another woman. They share the kind of relationship they've been looking for all along and discover the confusing ups and downs of love, sex and friendship in the '90s.
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 352 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fletcher Hanks was the first great comic book auteur: he wrote, penciled, inked, and lettered all of his own stories. He completed approximately 50 stories between 1939-1941, all unified by a unique artistic vision. Whether it's the superhero Stardust doling out ice cold slabs of poetic justice, or the jungle protectress Fantomah tearing evildoers from limb to ragged limb, contemporary readers are stunned by the pop surrealism and outright violent...
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