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Small World

by Sam Brier

Is this oddball 1950s comic strip about little kids pretending to be grown up, or is it about grown ups who look like little kids? That’s for you to decide! Back in print for the first time in half a century, it’s Sam Brier’s “Small World”!

List Price: $7.99

6″ x 6″ (15.24 x 15.24 cm)
Black & White on Cream paper
128 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1477477717
ISBN-10: 1477477713
BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels / General

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It’s Only a Game – Color Edition

by Charles M. Schulz with Jim Sasseville

In the late 1950s, amidst the surging popularity of Peanuts and during a strongly creative period, Charles M. Schulz created his only other syndicated newspaper comic. It’s Only a Game focused on the fun and foibles of people and their pastimes. Schulz targets those who play bridge and those who bowl, little leaguers and horse track regulars, those who rush across the gridiron and those who hunch over the chessboard. This full-color collection offers up the series in its full Sunday format. Commentary and insight are provided by artist and cartoonist Jim Sasseville, who worked with Schulz on the feature.

To facilitate the best display of the art, this book is in a special format: the pages flip up like a calendar, rather than to the left like a regular book. For those readers used to the Sunday newspaper funnies, this makes for a familiar and comfortable reading experience.

List Price: $17.99

8.5″ x 11″ (21.59 x 27.94 cm)
Full Color on White paper
64 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1490927541
ISBN-10: 1490927549
BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels / General

The Most Adjective Romance Comics Ever!

conceived by Nat Gertler

The Most ADJECTIVE Romance Comics Ever is a great new creative comical comics game! By adding words (an ADJECTIVE here, a NOUN there, perhaps a BODY PART) to the dialog of a classic comic book romance story you haven’t seen, you create some of the wackiest comics ever. Each one-to-three page comic book story has plenty of these marked blanks for you to fill in.

PLAYING WITH FRIENDS: One player reads off the word type noted in each blank (“Okay, I need an adverb… now a number… now a movie star…”) and fills in the answers that the other players call out. In a few minutes, you have a completed story for all to share and enjoy!

PLAYING SOLO: In the back of the book, there’s a form sheet for each story with all of the word types listed. That way, you can choose your own words without seeing where they go, then copy them into the story to see the hilarious results!

(The form is also good for playing with someone else when you have to do so in a quiet environment. By passing the form to your friend to fill out, the other folks in the monastery won’t be disturbed… assuming you can suppress the giggles from reading the results.)

List Price: $6.99

6″ x 9″ (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White on Cream paper
64 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1936404384
ISBN-10: 1936404389
BISAC: Games / Word & Word Search

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Classic Slams: Bridge Humor of the ’50s and ’60s

From the golden era of the home bridge party comes this trio of classic books, now under one cover. Meant to be given away as either top prizes or booby prizes, these books entertained winners and losers alike!

Doubled and Vulnerable: The cartoons of Wesley Thompson illustrate the fun and foibles of getting together with the neighbors for a friendly little game.

Bridge Babies: Dorothy W. Wilson’s charming photos of tiny tykes showing the expressions of bridge players will win your heart.

Bridge Players’ Coloring Book: This example of the adult satirical coloring book craze of the early 1960s is aimed straight at the bridge player’s funnybone.

List Price: $9.99

5.25″ x 8″ (13.335 x 20.32 cm)
Black & White Bleed on White paper
148 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1936404605
ISBN-10: 1936404605
BISAC: Games / Card Games / Bridge

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