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For the first time ever, Transformers Vault reveals the complete story of the Transformers, everyone's favorite robots in disguise. Loaded with never-before-seen images, this book is a guide to the epic battle between the Autobots and Decepticons, as it began with toys and television, and contin...

THE ART OF FOOTROT FLATS showcases the magnificent body of work of New Zealand's greatest cartoonist, Murray Ball, in a beautifully produced volume. This book is not simply a cartoon book. It is, as the title suggests, an art book. While most of Ball's books have relied entirely on the much-loved ca...

A beautifully produced collector's edition incorporating the very best of the hugely successful Kiwi icon - Footrot Flats. More than 500 pages, which will carry almost 1500 cartoon strips. Selected and introduced by author and illustrator Murray Ball. For the first time in print, Murray shares the i...

The best selling Stickmen and Stickmen 2 available for the first time in a fantastic value bind up. Sticking with it, branching out...whatever way you put it, the famous little stickmen are really out on a limb in this must-have collection which brings together all the gags and jokes from their firs...

For over a century rugby has been New Zealand's national game, an obsession that has helped define a small country and mould its people - Maori and Pakeha. Having a Ball looks at the triumphs and disasters, the amateur code that morphed into the professional era, the game at the local park and i...

Lauded by the "Los Angeles Times" "as one of the freshest and most imaginative strips," and designated as Best Newspaper Comic Strip three times by the National Cartoonists Society, Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman's "Zits" chronicles many of the scenes that play out under t...

Cyanide & Happiness is back! you hold in your grubby mitts the second collection from the hit online comic that was created by a quartet of depraved, inappropriate twentysomethings from all four corners of the world, and which has been compared to Family Circus by both the seeing and mentally...

"The Book of Bunny Suicides" and "Return of the Bunny Suicides" have introduced millions of people around the world to those cute bunnies always looking for new ways to end it all. Published for the first time in a unique paperback format, with a dozen new cartoons, this is the u...

Even challenging Dubya to a "pronunciation bee" can't save Uncle Duke'sweird horse race for the White House. In the end, the formerAmbassador passes out in a snowbank while the Cheney Administration kicksinto high gear. Predictablistically, the new presidential syntax isn't theonly thing that's tort...

"Doonesbury" continues to entertain, inspire, and provoke with its unique blend of social commentary, humor, and political satire. Chronicling the millennial state of the nation through the interconnected lives of its large cast of characters, the strip offers unusual perspectives on the usual suspe...

A laugh-out-loud and exceedingly irreverent collection of comics from the #1 hit web comic, Cyanide and Happiness. Complete with 150 of their funniest classic comics as well as well as 30 brand new ones. Author Biography Rob D., Matt, Dave and Kris have been collaboratively drawing the online...

Here is a rare homage to the art of classic 2-D animation and the time-honored method of hand-drawing characters that come alive on the silver screen. The creator of "The Simpsons" and "Futurama," reveals the art of brilliant character design, backgrounds, and prop art in this la...

The third volume in Canongate's acclaimed series arrives with a specially commissioned introduction from "The Simpsons'" Matt Groening. This beautiful new edition takes us into the mid-1950s as Linus learns to talk, Snoopy begins to explore his eccentricities, Lucy's unrequited crush on Sc...

Farewell Footrot Flats! After more than 30 years as the showcase of Kiwi humour, Wallace Cadwallader Footrot, the Dog and their mates are saying cheerio. The Long Weekender is Murray Ball's final Footrot Flats title - a  collectors' edition of Murray Ball's classic "double deckers"...

This title is for comic-book fans everywhere - an updated edition of the A-Z reference of the DC universe. New and expanded, this one-volume encyclopedia of more than 1,200 of the classic characters created by comics giant DC is essential for any fan. 48 new pages, new entries on the latest DC c...

If you're younger than 15 or older than 50, there is an 87% chance that something in this book will offend you. The #1 web comic, Cyanide & Happiness, is back with a brand new collection of comics sure to leave you gasping in horror or guffawing with laughter. Featuring 150 comics, including 3...

Simon Tofield returns with a charming follow-up which sees the adorable but incorrigible cat embark on a series of adventures beyond the garden fence. Sharply observed and beautifully drawn, this new book promises to be an even bigger hit than the first. Author Biography Simon Tofield is an aw...

Murray Ball's "Dog" - the central character in the Footrot Flats cartoon strips - was recently voted New Zealand's best-loved fictional character. Dog has starred in more than 50 Footrot Flats books and now has a book devoted entirely to himself and the "wisdom" that his made him...

To complete the remarkable Murray Ball celebratory trilogy comes a final volume to accompany the stunningly successful Footrot Flats: The Dog Strips and Footrot Flats: The Long Weekender. In this equally lavish book will be featured the best of the rest of Murray's work. If you loved Footrot and you...

The beginning of an extraordinary project: 50 years of art. "An extraordinary publishing project." Time  PEANUTS is the most popular comic strip in the history of the world. Its characters – Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Schroeder, and so many more – have become dea...

136-page treasury includes the very best of that hugely successful Kiwi icon - the Footrot Flats cartoon series. Selected by author and illustrator Murray Ball, these cartoon take us back to the classic Footrot Flats, introducing all of the lovable characters such as The Dog, Wal, Cooch, Horse, Majo...

Red Sonja - the she-devil with a sword - grew out of the "Conan the Barbarian" universe, but many a comic book reader would secretly wish she would pillage them any day. Fantasies come true in "100 Sexiest Women in Comics", a lavishly illustrated peek at the hottest females found in the comic book w...

The bunnies are back and there s only one thing on their minds. From the author of the bestselling The Book of Bunny Suicides and Return of the Bunny Suicides comes a whole new batch of fluffy little rabbits who just don t want to live anymore. Twice as long as the previous books (over 150 deaths!) ...

From the author of the cult bestsellers THE BOOK OF BUNNY SUICIDES and RETURN OF THE BUNNY SUICIDES comes another unmissable collection of rabbit-related self destruction...The bunnies are back - and there's only one thing on their minds. In this new collection, follow the continuing adventures of ...

Picking up where they left off, Achewood and Dark Horse Comics present the third volume of strips from the massive Achewood archive. As with the previous collections, author Chris Onstad includes extensive character backstories, thorough strip annotations, the celebrated alt-texts, and many print-on...

Bucky B. Katt is leading the charge of the Highlands Kittyscouts. Bolstered by his roommates Rob Wilco (decked out in a borrowed hotel bathrobe and a Burger King crown) and Satchel Pooch (protected by a colander helmet), the trio from "Get Fuzzy" are ready to entertain their readers with a...

Anyone who works in a fabric-covered box can relate to Dilbert. Since 1989, "Dilbert" has been the touchstone of office humor for people all over the world. As long as there are corrupt businesses, inept bosses and downright loathsome co-workers, there is plenty to chuckle at. Convinced your co-work...

Following on from the phenomenal success of "Where's Bin Laden", here is "Where's Elvis". Is Elvis in Hollywood, Gracelands or just working in a fish shop? Look through this pictorial book of astoundingly intricate drawings and a lot of tongue in cheek for Elvis in all sorts of l...

Scott Adams "is a VERY tough act to follow." Washington Post In the tradition of The Complete Far Side and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert 2.0 celebrates the 20th anniversary of Scott Adams's Dilbert, the touchstone of office humor. This special slipcased collection-weighing ...

As the 1950s close down, "Peanuts" enters its golden age. Linus, who had just learned to speak in the previous volume, becomes downright eloquent. Charlie Brown cascades further down the hill to loserdom. But the rising star is undoubtedly Snoopy. He's at the centre of the most action-pack...

If Garfield ever lost weight, I’d lose my job security.”–Jim Davis When the world’s most famous feline hits the three-decade milestone it’s time to celebrate! 30 Years of Laughs & Lasagna is a tribute to this tremendous achievement. Organized by decade, each with...

In this fabulous collector's edition of Asterix, books 28 to 30 are collected in one volume for the first time ever. In Asterix and the Magic Carpet, Cacofonix's awful singing voice comes to rescue of the lovely Princess Orinjade, who is about to be sacrificed by the guru Hoodunnit. In Asterix and t...

Yellow of skin, a head covered in spikes, a monstrous being spreading chaos and carnage wherever he goes! Good Lord!! Bart is back!!! This brand-new collection continues the trials and tribulations of the angelic upstart as he faces the misery of boring action figures and the horror of what grows fr...

Calvin and Hobbes is unquestionably one of the most popular comic strips of all time. The imaginative world of a boy and his real-only-to-him tiger was first syndicated in 1985 and appeared in more than 2,400 newspapers when Bill Watterson retired on January 1, 1996. Composed of three hardcover, fou...

"Every one of these cartoons is just something that drifted into my head when I was alone with my thoughts. And, for better or worse, I 'jotted' them down. It was only later, when perhaps I received an angry letter from someone, that it struck me: Hey! Someone's been reading my diary!" -Ga...

In ancient Rome the slaves are revolting ...and not only that, they've stolen Julius Caesar's own galley, the finest warship in the Roman navy. Under their heroic leader Spartakis, the former galley slaves make for the little Gaulish village where Julius Caesar's old enemies Asterix and Obelix live ...

A baby boy is left in a basket outside Asterix's hut - who can have dumped the foundling there, and why? Child-care is something new to the Gaulish warriors, but Asterix and Obelix do their best, although they have had more practice in thumping Romans. Child-care is also new to Crismus Cactus, Prefe...

Two rival chieftains have been elected to govern a little village in ancient Gaul - and a ditch dug through the village divides it, literally, into a party of the left and a party of the right. But the son and daughter of the two chieftains are in love. Histrionix and the beautiful Melodrama have mo...

A woman bard is unheard-of in Ancient Gaul - but when the mothers in Asterix and Obelix's little village decide that besides being a terrible musician Cacofonix, the local bard and school-teacher, is not educating their children properly, it's Bravura they call in. The men of the village are horrifi...

The druid Getafix is running short of rock oil - an essential ingredient in the magic potion, which gives the Gaulish villagers superhuman strength to fight Julius Caesar's Roman legions. But the Phoenician merchant Ekonomikrisis has forgotten the druid's order, and Asterix and Obelix set off to pro...