Download or read book Albert the Alligator and Santy Claus written by J. E. Bell and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-22 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tale of Giving at Christmas This exciting and creative children's comic story Albert Alligator and Santy Claus has fun for everyone, and is appropriate for readers of all ages. Read it to your children or grandchildren and get ready to see them light up as you turn through the pages of this incredible story. The story takes place in the Okefenokee Swamp of Georgia's bayou. You'll meet such unforgettable characters as Albert Alligator, Pogo Possum, Uncle Antler Moose and many more as you take a journey through the wetlands in this unique and interesting Vintage Comic Stories hit. Albert and his friends have quite the story to tell in this once in a lifetime epic adventure. One of the most important lessons we learn throughout life is the wonderful benefit of serving one another and that's exactly what Albert Alligator teaches us in this story as he selfishly digs into the gifts stored for some orphans and then decides to give them away to another family. Then he needs to dig deep and sacrifice himself to provide enough presents for the orphans in the swamp. But a big surprise awaits him as he dons a Santa suit complete with long white beard to deliver the gifts. The author of the Vintage Comics series J.E. Bell is a children's writing expert. She brings humor, inspiration, fun, and wonderful lessons to the table through this book and many more books just like this one. She is a wife, mother, and wonderful children's writer of over 20 books. She is good at what she loves to do, which is putting smiles on the faces of children and joy into their hearts. Albert Alligator and Santy Claus is also a wonderful tool for teaching your kids about sacrificing and serving others in need. This story is not only brilliant, funny, and entertaining; but it is also enlightening and inspiring for children of all ages. Your children and grandchildren will love hearing you read the accents of the swamp characters to them. Just the cartoon drawings alone are sure to be entertaining. These classic and original illustrations are sure to wow your kids and have them looking through the book over and over again. So get your copy of Albert Alligator and Santy Claus today, and get ready to see it become your child's new Christmas favorite to read throughout the year!
Download or read book Crackers written by Roy Blount and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensible guide to southernness from revered humorist and unapologetic curmudgeon Roy Blount Jr. When a simple-talking, peanut-warehousing, grit-eating Southern Baptist Cracker got himself nominated for president of the United States in 1976, it set Roy Blount Jr. to thinking—about the South, about southerners, and about southernness. The result is a collection of savagely funny and insightful takes on redneck heaven, whiskey, blood, possums, and a great number of other things. Blount turns his gimlet eye on his Dixie home, and in the process, he clears up long-held misconceptions (and creates new ones) about the people who reside below the Mason-Dixon line. Crackers delivers classic Blount, whether you are a proud southerner or a clueless Yankee.
Download or read book Funnybooks written by Michael Barrier and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funnybooks is the story of the most popular American comic books of the 1940s and 1950s, those published under the Dell label. For a time, “Dell Comics Are Good Comics” was more than a slogan—it was a simple statement of fact. Many of the stories written and drawn by people like Carl Barks (Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge), John Stanley (Little Lulu), and Walt Kelly (Pogo) repay reading and rereading by educated adults even today, decades after they were published as disposable entertainment for children. Such triumphs were improbable, to say the least, because midcentury comics were so widely dismissed as trash by angry parents, indignant librarians, and even many of the people who published them. It was all but miraculous that a few great cartoonists were able to look past that nearly universal scorn and grasp the artistic potential of their medium. With clarity and enthusiasm, Barrier explains what made the best stories in the Dell comic books so special. He deftly turns a complex and detailed history into an expressive narrative sure to appeal to an audience beyond scholars and historians.
Download or read book Gaston the Green nosed Alligator written by and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1974 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santa Claus moves his headquarters to the Louisiana bayou and replaces his reindeer with flying alligators.
Download or read book Albert the Alligator written by sharon Poole Blair and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure of an alligator called Albert and his friend Ziggy the parrot. Children's book
Download or read book The Ninja Cricketer and Scratched written by Valerio L. Meletti and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Northern Irish wicked villain desperately looking for sympathy (Scratched); A Pakistani kid having arguments about Cricket with some Auld British Blokes (The Ninja Cricketer); A professional Con/Hitman telling (fictional?) episodes from his career (The Marcabru Chronicles).
Download or read book Walt Kelly and Pogo written by James Eric Black and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most popular comic strips of the 1950s and the first to reference politics of the day, Walt Kelly's Pogo took on Joe McCarthy before the controversial senator was a blip on Edward R. Murrow's radar. The strip's satire was so biting, it was often relegated to newspaper editorial sections at a time when artists in other media were blacklisted for far less. Pogo was the vanguard of today's political comic strips, such as Doonesbury and Pearls Before Swine, and a precursor of the modern political parody of late night television. This comprehensive biography of Kelly reveals the life of a conflicted man and unravels the symbolism and word-play of his art for modern readers. There are 241 original Pogo comic strips illustrated and 13 other Kelly artworks (as well as illustrations by other cartoonists).
Download or read book Albert s Christmas written by Leslie Tryon and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albert the duck and his friends help Santa as he races on his annual visit.
Download or read book Albert Takes the Cake written by J. E. Bell and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-23 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Story Takes the Cake! Albert Takes the Cake is a hilarious story set in Georgia's rural Okefenokee swamp. Albert the Alligator is an amusing, and often foolish character in the Vintage Comic Stories series that not only entertains, but teaches important life lessons now. If you haven't already done so, you should order a book from the classic 60's style Vintage Comics by the wonderful and established children's author J.E. Bell. She is a dedicated mother and the author of over 20 excellent stories. If there's one thing this author knows it's kids and how to put a smile on their face and joy into their hearts. This book is part of the Vintage Comic Stories series and would be a great addition to any learning child's collection. This particular book... takes the cake! The story begins when the friendly swamp characters Blue Jay and Bumbazine start baking a cake for Pogo Possum's birthday. As you probably already guessed from the title of this brilliant and hilarious classic, the cake does not get to Pogo Possum immediately. The cake is stolen by Albert Alligator. There is a sudden twist in the story after Albert eats the cake. Moral of the story: you can't have your cake and eat it too, Albert. These fun swamp characters are always getting into wild and crazy shenanigans your children and grandchildren will enjoy over and over again. The other fun swamp characters in this book include a Turtle, Mouse, and even Beetle. Everyone is in on the fun as Albert takes the cake in this thrilling and inspiring book sure to impress any young reader. Albert Takes the Cake is not only colorful and entertaining, but it's extremely witty and creative as well. The stories they will read in the Vintage Comic Stories series are stories they will look back on with fondness for years to come. You really can't go wrong when you invest in a book they will actually want to read. And Albert Takes the Cake is one of those books!
Download or read book Comics through Time 4 volumes written by M. Keith Booker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 2803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing especially on American comic books and graphic novels from the 1930s to the present, this massive four-volume work provides a colorful yet authoritative source on the entire history of the comics medium. Comics and graphic novels have recently become big business, serving as the inspiration for blockbuster Hollywood movies such as the Iron Man series of films and the hit television drama The Walking Dead. But comics have been popular throughout the 20th century despite the significant effects of the restrictions of the Comics Code in place from the 1950s through 1970s, which prohibited the depiction of zombies and use of the word "horror," among many other rules. Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas provides students and general readers a one-stop resource for researching topics, genres, works, and artists of comic books, comic strips, and graphic novels. The comprehensive and broad coverage of this set is organized chronologically by volume. Volume 1 covers 1960 and earlier; Volume 2 covers 1960–1980; Volume 3 covers 1980–1995; and Volume 4 covers 1995 to the present. The chronological divisions give readers a sense of the evolution of comics within the larger contexts of American culture and history. The alphabetically arranged entries in each volume address topics such as comics publishing, characters, imprints, genres, themes, titles, artists, writers, and more. While special attention is paid to American comics, the entries also include coverage of British, Japanese, and European comics that have influenced illustrated storytelling of the United States or are of special interest to American readers.
Download or read book Hidden in Plain Sight written by Martin Williams and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mikhail Baryshnikov defected to the United States in 1974, he announced that his hero as a dancer was Fred Astaire. Many Americans were surprised that a highly popular figure from the movies could inspire a classically trained European dancer, just as they would be surprised to hear Duke Ellington called a great composer in the same breath with Ravel. But these artists and others, writes Martin Williams, deserve such praise. Twentieth century America, he argues, has produced a rich and innovative culture whose best artists should be a source of national pride. In Hidden in Plain Sight, acclaimed critic Martin Williams offers an eloquent celebration of the achievements of American culture. Americans, Williams writes, have labored under the sense that the art forms created on our shores are less valid than the traditional art forms of Europe. In these lucid essays, he shows how certain American artists have achieved a range and power of their own. Specifically, rejecting such terms as "popular culture," Williams looks at such great, innovative artists as D.W. Griffith and Fred Astaire and shows how they virtually created their own genrers of art with a uniquely American outlook and temperament. He offers a brilliant look at Duke Ellington, exploring the range and enormous volume of his work and describing how he worked with his orchestra in the same way great dramatists (Shakespeare among them) have worked with the specific talents of their actors. Williams looks at comic strips and finds in E.C. Segar's original "Popeye" a perceptive and prophetic comic comment on dictatorship done in 1936. He sees Walt Kelly as a kind of American Father Goose. He discusses the aesthetics of TV by looking at "Bullwinkle and Rocky." He provides freshly revealing accounts of the detective story, the gangster thriller, and the radio satire of Fred Allen, and more. On the other hand, Williams seriously questions whether the United States has a folk music in the traditional sense. In 1924, Gilbert Seldes published The Seven Lively Arts, a landmark account of the originality and value of American culture. Hidden in Plain Sight will be considered a Seldes for the 1990s--and yet it goes further, offering a celebratory critique by the writer Gary Giddins of the Village Voice called "one of the most distinguished critics (of anything) this country has produced."
Download or read book Comics Shop written by Maggie Thompson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 3620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ESSENTIAL COMICS VALUES ALL IN COLOR! COMICS SHOP is the reliable reference for collectors, dealers, and everyone passionate about comic books! THIS FULL-COLOR, INDISPENSABLE GUIDE FEATURES: • Alphabetical organization by comic book title • More than 3,000 color photos • Hundreds of introductory essays • Analysis of multi-million dollar comics' sales • How covers and splash pages have evolved • An exclusive photo to grading guide to help you determine your comics' conditions accurately • Current values for more than 150,000 comics From the authoritative staff at Comics Buyer's Guide, the world's longest running magazine about comics, Comics Shop is the only guide on the market to give you extensive coverage of more than 150,000 comics from the Golden Age of the 1930s to current releases and all in color! In addition to the thousands of comic books from such publishers as Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image, this collector-friendly reference includes listings for comic books from independent publishers, underground publishers, and more!
Download or read book Masters of Imagination written by Mike Benton and published by Taylor Publishing Company (TX). This book was released on 1994 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masters of Imagination presents an overview of the careers and works of the 13 world-class cartoonists elected to the Comic Book Artists Hall of Fame. More than 250 full-color illustrations plus illuminating commentary by Mike Benton offer insight into the creative processes that made these artists the very best in the world.
Download or read book Comic Strip Artists in American Newspapers 1945 1980 written by Moira Davison Reynolds and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of Americans know and love Charlie Brown and Snoopy, Blondie and Dagwood, Doonesbury, Li'l Abner, Garfield, Cathy, Beetle Bailey and other such comic strip characters. Thanks to the cartoonists--the people who have brought and still bring these and other characters to life day after day in the newspapers--the characters have become an entertaining and important part of American culture. Charles Schulz (Peanuts), Chic Young (Blondie), Gary Trudeau (Doonesbury), Al Capp (Li'l Abner), Jim Davis (Garfield), Cathy Guisewite (Cathy), Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey), Rudolph Dirks (The Katzenjammer Kids), Alex Raymond (Rip Kirby), Chester Gould (Dick Tracy), Frank King (Gasoline Alley), Cliff Sterrett (Polly and Her Pals), and other cartoonists whose comic strips appeared in American newspapers between 1945 to 1980 are featured in this work. The author provides a biographical sketch of each cartoonist, with special attention given to the cartoonist's career and characters.
Download or read book Heritage Comics Dallas Signature Auction Catalog written by Ivy Press and published by Heritage Capital Corporation. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Official Overstreet written by House of Collectibles and published by House of Collectibles. This book was released on 1991-05-14 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bible of the comic book industry is updated for 2002 with Web site information, tips about grading and caring for comics, and more than 1,500 black-and-white photos.
Download or read book Comic Book 17ed written by Robert M. Overstreet and published by House of Collectibles. This book was released on 1987-03 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recognized authority in this field and an established bestseller, this eagerly awaited 17th edition features a 40-page color section.
