Graphic fictionalized retelling of the moon landing. In T-Minus the exciting story of two world superpowers racing to land a man on the moon is depicted through compelling comics artwork, taking readers through the history of the race and turning the engineers and astronauts involved into vivid and real characters. The story unfolds through the eyes of the figures working behind the scenes to make this miracle happen, showing every triumph and catastrophe along the way, and culminating in the dramatic event itself.

In this lively caper, the Geoffrey Hayes’ small-scale mice take on large-scale issues with their mysterious new neighbor. Benny and his sister Penny have a new next door neighbour. They are desperate to know more and decide to sneak over the fence. They know it is wrong to sneak into someone else's backyard but their mysterious new neighbour may be a monster and a thief. They go looking around and discover a lot about themselves and even make a new friend.

Megumi is an all-star athlete, but she's a failure when it comes to physics class. And she can't concentrate on her tennis matches when she's worried about the questions she missed on the big test! Luckily for her, she befriends Ryota, a patient physics geek who uses real-world examples to help her understand classical mechanics-and improve her tennis game in the process! In The Manga Guide to Physics, you'll follow alongside Megumi as she learns about the physics of everyday objects like roller skates, slingshots, braking cars, and tennis serves. In no time, you'll master tough concepts like momentum and impulse, parabolic motion, and the relationship between force, mass, and acceleration. You'll also learn how to: Apply Newton's three laws of motion to real-life problems; Determine how objects will move after a collision; Draw vector diagrams and simplify complex problems using trigonometry; Calculate how an object's kinetic energy changes as its potential energy increases If you're mystified by the basics of physics or you just need a refresher, The Manga Guide to Physics will get you up to speed in a lively, quirky, and practical way.

He's been big, bad, bratty, beefy, bouncy, beastly, brilliant (not to mention boastful, brazen, boisterous, brash, and downright bamboozling), but when it comes down to it—Bart Simpson is the Son of Homer! Join the chip off the ol' block in several new adventures as he makes Springfield safe from criminals; starts his own radio talk show; goes on a one man campaign against the new reading craze in Springfield; takes a one-way train trip to disaster; wins a shopping spree at Krusty's toy store; and much, much more.

Successful sales result from effective successful self-promotion and the "Big Book of Self Promotion" is an extraordinary resource featuring work from top designers around the globe. It offers hundreds of ideas, pages of inspiration, and loads of advice for professional graphic designers and students alike. This book provides ideas on corporate and product literature, annual reports and direct marketing, and new media, providing a wellspring of ideas for designers creating client brochures. It offers recommendations for choosing type, layout, photo treatments, and much more.

Dan Piraro is a "triple-threat funnyman-in print, on stage, off stage." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bizarro has been voted Best Single-Panel Cartoon by the National Cartoonists Society for an unprecedented three straight years. Bizarro Buccaneers is a collection of Piraro's favorite pirate-themed panels. Bizarro cartoonist Dan Piraro presents a cartoon collection exclusively for wannabe plunderers and plankwalkers. Pirate pilates and prosthetics abound as Piraro culls a veritable treasure chest of his favorite buccaneer sketches that dare to ponder such complexities as, "Can you get wine stains out of a parrot?"