Speck the Altar Boy: The Collection Compilation

Speck is the ultimate altar boy, half holy, half hellion, well-intentioned but oh, so distractible. Some of us remember dealing with him, others of us remember being him.

Margaret Ahern spent a quarter century drawing the adventures of the never-aging Speck, being one of the few female cartoonists to take part in the Catholic cartoon explosion of the 1950s and one of the artists who stuck with the form the longest. This book collects the first two collections of her work (Speck the Altar Boy and Presenting… Speck the Altar Boy), both out of print for decades, into a single volume for the first time, with hundreds of prime Speck cartoons. Also available: AN ALTAR BOY NAMED ‘SPECK’, a collection of cartoons by Speck’s creator, W. R. “Tut” LeBlanc.

  • Paperback : 211 pages
  • ISBN-10 : 194999631X
  • Item Weight : 11.8 ounces
  • Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.53 x 8.5 inches

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An Altar Boy Named ‘Speck’

Speck is a well-intentioned, spirited, energetic, and often all-too-human boy of the cloth, there to serve, to support, and when possible, to mooch your sweet snacks!

Here, back in print for the first time in over 60 years, is the very first collection of Speck cartoons. “An Altar Boy Named ‘Speck'” started appearing in Catholic Action o the South (the newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans) in 1951, and by 1952 the comic was already being collected into books and was signed with a national distributor.

Unfortunately, the comic’s creator, W. R. “Tut” LeBlanc, passed away in 1953. The feature was taken over by cartoonist Margaret Ahern, who kept it running until 1979.

  • Paperback : 107 pages
  • ISBN-13 : 978-1949996302
  • Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.27 x 8.5 inches

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Aunt’s in Your Pants: Memoirs of a Dirty Old Woman

The great Sergio Aragonés, during the early years of his fifty-plus-and-still-counting career at Mad Magazine, also created this book of cartoons focused on a female sexual predator, a woman who does not let things like appropriateness and consent get in her way.

Half a century since this book last saw print, it’s now available again, unexpurgated, in this enlarged size.

  • LanguageEnglish
  • Paperback51 pages
  • ISBN-101949996131
  • ISBN-13978-1949996135
  • Dimensions8 x 0.13 x 8 inches

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Titia é Soda: Memórias de uma Velha Assanhada

O grande Sergio Aragonés, nos primeiros anos de sua carreira de mais de 50 anos e ainda contando na Revista Mad, também criou esse livro de cartoons focados em uma predadora sexual, uma mulher que não deixa coisas como adequação e consentimento ficarem em seu caminho. Meio século desde a primeira impressão desse livro, ele está disponível pela primeira vez em português, sem censura, nessa edição ampliada.Título original em Inglês: Aunt’s in Your Pants

  • Language: : Portuguese
  • Paperback : 51 pages
  • ISBN-10 : 1949996212
  • ISBN-13 : 978-1949996210
  • Dimensions : 8 x 8 inches

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Cougar à toi!: Mémoires d’une vieille cochonne

Le grand Sergio Aragonés, au début de la cinquantaine-et-pas-fini-de-compter d’années de carrière à Mad Magazine, a aussi créé ce livre de gags centrés sur une femme prédatrice sexuelle, une femme qui ne laisse pas des détails comme la pertinence et le consentement se mettre en travers de son chemin. Un demi-siècle après que ce livre ait vu le jour, il est maintenant disponible pour la première fois en français, sans coupure, dans cette édition augmentée.Titre anglais (USA) originel : Aunt’s in Your Pants

  • Paperback : 51 pages
  • ISBN-10 : 1949996190
  • ISBN-13 : 978-1949996197
  • Dimensions : 8 x 0.13 x 8 inches

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Gallina vieja hace buen caldo: Recuerdos de una viejita libidinosa

(Aunt’s in Your Pants in Spanish)

El gran Sergio Aragonés, en sus primeros años de sus-más-de-cincuenta-y-contando de su muy fructífera carrera en la revista MAD, también se dio el tiempo para crear esta colección de caricaturas enfocadas en una muy singular depredadora sexual, una mujer que no permite que nimiedades como el pundonor o el consentimiento se interpongan en su camino. Medio siglo ha pasado desde que este libro vio la luz, ahora disponible en español por vez primera y en su edición original sin censura, en esta edición ampliada.Título original en inglés: Aunt’s in Your Pants

  • Paperback : 51 pages
  • ISBN-10 : 1949996204
  • ISBN-13 : 978-1949996203
  • Dimensions : 8 x 8 inches

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Grannys Tagebuch: Erinnerungen einer unanständigen alten Lady

(Aunt’s in Your Pants in German)

Der große Sergio Aragonés hat zu Beginn seiner mehr als fünfzigjährigen Karriere beim amerikanischen MAD-Magazin auch diese Cartoonsammlung geschaffen, die das Leben einer etwas in die Jahre gekommenen Draufgängerin nachzeichnet, die ihre ganz eigene Definition von Anstand und Würde hat. Nun, nach einem halben Jahrhundert, ist dieses Buch zum ersten Mal auf Deutsch erhältlich, ungekürzt, in dieser großformatigen Neuausgabe.

  • Language: : German
  • Paperback : 51 pages
  • ISBN-10 : 1949996182
  • ISBN-13 : 978-1949996180
  • Dimensions : 8 x 0.13 x 8 inches

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My Favorite Funny Story

Everyone has a funny story, an anecdote they like to whip out when it’s time to amuse. Here are some of the reminiscences, self-mythologizations, and gags spun by some of the 20th century’s most significant figures. Inside are the tales told by everyone from Pope John XXIII to Groucho Marx, John F. Kennedy to Yogi Berra, Albert Einstein to John Lennon. With about two hundred lively bits of humor, accompanied by dozens of Al Kilgore’s great caricatures, there’s a laugh any time you need one.Bill Adler was a genius of the book field, creating best sellers ranging from The Kennedy Wit to Who Killed the Robbins Family?

Al Kilgore was a lifelong cartoonist and caricaturist best known for his “Rocky & Bullwinkle” comic strip.

Bridge Mix: The Bridge Cartoons of Charles M. Schulz (color edition)

From the mind of Charles M. Schulz, the world’s most beloved cartoonist, comes these funny looks at the game of Bridge. The game, the culture, and the very human foibles of those who play it all come under his masterful attention, with over sixty cartoons in full color.
Charles Schulz was a player of various types of bridge over the years, and he included it in his famous comic strip. In the late 1950s, he set out to launch a new strip just about bridge and the people who played it. While the plan for the strip (called “It’s Only a Game”) eventually expanded to include other games and leisure activities, Schulz still made sure to include at least one cartoon each week about bridge, and those are all collected here, in this one volume, in color!

  • Paperback : 72 pages
  • ISBN-10 : 1949996174
  • ISBN-13 : 978-1949996173
  • Dimensions : 5 x 8 inches

Webster’s Poker Book

Cartoonist H.T. Webster may be best known for his decades of chronicling the adventures of the “Timid Soul” Casper Milquetoast, but he repeatedly chronicled in cartoon form the foibles of players of card games, most notably poker and bridge. Here we have fifty of his poker cartoons, matched with some light writings on the game by pulp writer George F. Worts and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Algonquin Round Table member Marc Connelly, a guide to the rules by game expert R. F. Foster, and a foreword by noted Chicago chronicler George Ade.

  • Paperback : 127 pages
  • ISBN-10 : 1949996298
  • ISBN-13 : 978-1949996296
  • Dimensions : 6 x 0.32 x 8 inches