No one has told the story of comic art in its own medium, until now. In Masterful Marks, top illustrators reveal how sixteen visionary cartoonists overcame massive financial, political, and personal challenges to create a new form of art that now defines our world. Superhero comics didn't exist until two teenagers from Cleveland created the first superhero of all time: Superman. Advertising artist Theodor Geisel released his first book in 1937 as Dr. Seuss, and children's literature was never the same. Charles M. Schulz's perseverance and passion gave the world Peanuts, the world's most famous comic strip. Featuring these tales, and profiling other giants, Masterful Marks illustrates how graphic storytelling became such a rich and popular medium.

New printing! Someone's creeping through the garden, doing nasty things! Dean Haspiel, a veteran of Batman and Justice League comics, knows just how to portray 'The Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes.' In his comic series like The Bakers and Plastic Man, Kyle Baker proves he's one funny artist, the perfect guy to draw a story about fun and games at camp - until 'The Horror at Camp Jellyjam' is uncovered.

New printing! Take these Terror Trips - and hope you return! Jill Thompson, the award-winning creator of The Scary Godmother series, brings her quirky humor and madcap illustrations to 'One Day at Horrorland,' where a family lost in an amusement park finds the rides a little too creepy, a little too real! Jamie Tolagson, artist on The Crow, The Dreaming, and the Books of Magic series, turns up the juice in 'A Shocker on Shock Street.'

To save the world from ever-greater dangers, the Avengers got bigger. Yet when the oldest race in the universe marks Earth for destruction, it's time for Captain America to think grander still. As the most powerful Avengers team ever assembled heads into space to join an intergalactic alliance against the ancient Builders, an old enemy deems their home unprotected. Thanos, the Mad Titan, unleashes his forces on Earth in the latest chapter of his endless quest for death. But even a world without Avengers has its defenders. Among them, the secret cabal of history-shapers known as the Illuminati - a group riven with internal conflict already confronting another planet-ending crisis. As Earth's Mightiest Heroes wage war on multiple fronts, their battle for Infinity threatens to descend into Inhumanity. Collecting INFINITY #1-6, NEW AVENGERS (2013) #7-12 and AVENGERS (2012) #14-23.

Jules Feiffer's Kill My Mother is a loving homage to the pulp-inspired films and comic strips of his youth. Channeling Eisner's The Spirit, along with the likes of Hammett, Chandler, Cain, John Huston, and Billy Wilder, and spiced with the deft humor for which Feiffer is renowned, Kill My Mother centers on five formidable women from two unrelated families, linked fatefully and fatally by a has-been, hard-drinking private detective.

A superior pornucopia for classy dames (and the forward-thinking gentleman)! Smut Peddler is the world's sexiest anthology of woman-centric comic book smut. The 2014 edition features a dream team of artists and writers, an all-star cast of creators premiering the finest filth you're gonna find in comics.

For over 75 years, Marvel Comics has been thrilling fans with iconic comic book covers that perfectly capture the dynamic characters and explosive situations that make the Marvel universe so compelling. This poster book brings together forty covers from Marvel's most memorable issues, from Spider-Man's striking debut in Amazing Fantasy #15 to the first installment of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars. Each poster is easy to remove and perfect for displaying.

Rick's treaty with Negan and the Saviors is pushed to the limit, as both sides march toward ALL OUT WAR.

Danny the potbellied ‘pottamus lived happily in his swampy marsh. On having his teeth cleaned in normal swamp fashion, Danny overhears a worrying conversation that sends him hurrying to find a dentist. And when Danny returns to the marshes, fully fitted with braces, he is the envy of one particular reptile whose gleaming whites lead to a disastrous fate for a city dentist (who has clearly never heard that one should never smile at a crocodile!) Yann and Gwendal Le Bec lead us through a visual romp from the swamps to the city in this gloriously funny tale of Danny the hippopotamus.

Meet the Wrenchies. They're strong, powerful, and if you cross them, things will quickly go very badly for you. Only one thing scares them-growing up. Anyone who survives to be an adult lives in constant fear of the Shadowsmen. All the teenagers who come into contact with them turn into twisted, nightmarish monsters whose minds are lost forever.

An Age of Licenseis acclaimed cartoonist Lucy Knisley's (French Milk, Relish) comics travel memoir recounting her charming (and romantic!) adventures in Europe and Scandinavia. It's punctuated by whimsical visual devices, cute cats she meets along the way and drawings and descriptions of food that will make your mouth water. Knisley's experiences are also colored by anxieties about traveling alone and about her life and career-subjects that many young adults will relate to.