Sixteen contributors including video game creators, media critics and Internet celebrities discuss the state and stakes of video game culture and describe how the digital world has collided with real-life art, sex and race and class politics.

Six months on the New York Times bestseller list! Featured on 25 best of the year lists! “Somewhere in my heart is a folder titled Things I Did Not Know I Wanted and it is full of Kate Beaton comics Sharp, charming, and weird, Step Aside, Pops is a fine sampling of Beaton's work, and I can't recommend it enough.” —NPR “Nobody’s ever gotten so much comedy out of omitting punctuation.” —New York Times Ida B. Wells, the Black Prince, and Benito Juárez burst off the pages of Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection, armed with modern-sounding quips and amusingly on-point repartee. Kate Beaton's second D+Q book brings her hysterically funny gaze to bear on these and even more historical, literary, and contemporary figures. Irreverently funny and carefully researched, no target is safe from Beaton's incisive wit in these satirical strips. Beaton began her infectiously popular web comic, Hark! A Vagrant, in 2007 and it quickly attracted the adoration of hundreds of thousands of fans. It was an unequivocal hit with critics and fans alike, topping best-of-the-year lists from E!, Amazon, Time, and more. Now Beaton returns with a refined pen, ready to make jokes at the expense of hunks, army generals, scientists, and Canadians in equal measure. With a few carefully placed lines, she captures the over-the-top evil of the straw feminists in the closet, the disgruntled dismay of Heathcliff, and Wonder Woman's all-conquering ennui. Step Aside, Pops is sure to be the comedic hit of the year: sharp, insightful, and very funny.

It's time for another round of fun and games - ok practical jokes and pranks - with Bubu, Ron, Christopher, Anna, and Froga! In Anna and Froga: Fore!, Christopher has a crush on someone in his piano class, Bubu sets out to prove himself an ace golfer, and Ron has a close encounter with a lifeguard. Anouk Ricard's bright and colorful illustrations make the world of Anna and Froga inviting and fun for kids, but adults also love the series for Ricard's charming character design and visual puns

Adult Contemporary is a collection of odd absurdist imaginings, surrealist comics, and physical comedy gags from Bendik Kaltenborn, a New Yorker and New York Times illustrator.

The possibilities for enjoying Edward Goreys The Helpless Doorknob are nearly endless. As Gorey himself explained in the original edition, this shuffle story is made up of twenty cards which can be read in 2,432,902,069,736,640,000 different ways. Shuffle and read

The amazing New York Times bestselling adult coloring book featuring super-detailed animal images from artist Kerby Rosanes. The perfect stocking stuffer gift for anyone who loves a coloring book challenge! A coloring book like you've never seen before—perfect for colored pencils, crayons, or markers! Fans of adult coloring books will love the intricate, imaginitive illustrations of Kerby's beautiful animals: whales, dragons, bears, elephants, camels and more! Get lost in the zen world of Animorphia. Known for his popular Sketchy Stories blog, and for his internationally bestselling coloring books Imagimorphia, Fantomorphia, Geomorphia, and Mythomorphia, Kerby Rosanes works in intricately detailed black and white line to create creatures, characters, patterns, and tiny elements to form compositions of mind-boggling complexity. Bring your creativity to complete the breath-taking drawings and find hidden treasures and creatures scattered throughout the pages of Animorphia.

Ever since the gods of Ancient Egypt were unleashed on the modern world, Carter Kane and his sister, Sadie, have been in big trouble. As descendants of the magical House of Life, they command certain powers. But now a terrifying enemy - Apophis, the giant snake of chaos - is rising. If Carter and Sadie don't destroy him, the world will end in five days' time. And in order to battle the forces of chaos, they must revive the sun god Ra - a feat no magician has ever achieved. Because first they must search the world for the three sections of the Book of Ra, then they have to learn how to chant its spells . .

Jude's life is nothing special. It seems like every day is just a repeat of the last one, until one day, he meets a woman and can suddenly see into her past - revealing that he is actually in Purgatory for suicides. Now that he's awake, he and the legendary Ernest Hemingway are on the path to change things in the afterlife for the better. “Finding love is tough, even in the afterlife... Writer Joshua Hale Fialkov and artist Gabriel Bautista take readers on a coming-of-age journey through the purgatory of suicides and other after-death planes of existence. All so a guy named Jude can catch Ms. Right.”- USA TODAY “Clever... The Life After creates an intriguing, potentially gonzo mystery.”-- NERDIST “The Life After is a wondrous and intriguing debut that gets better with every page.” - IGN Jude's life is nothing special. Of course, that might not sit very well with the bigwigs down below or up above. Can just a few people change the course of billions of souls? This trade collects the first five issues of the ongoing series, that Joshua Wilson ( Nailbiter & Birthright) calls, “an amazing work of comics.”

Yorick Brown, an unemployed and unmotivated slacker who discovers that he is the only male left in the world after a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome. Accompanied by his monkey and the Agent 355, York embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his girlfriend and discover why he is the last man on Earth. Y: The Last Man is the gripping saga of Yorick Brown, an unemployed and unmotivated slacker who discovers that he is the only male left in the world after a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey and the mysterious Agent 355, York embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his girlfriend and discover why he is the last man on Earth. In this third volume, Yorick's unbalanced sister Hero tracks him to San Francisco, only to find him seemingly succumbing to the male-killing plague after losing his still-unused engagement ring to agents of the Setauket Ring. Plus, Yorick, Agent 355, and Dr. Mann ship out across the Pacific to Japan in pursuit of Yorick's stolen monkey Ampersand, whose innards may hold the key to mankind's future. This volume collects Y: The Last Man #24-36.