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Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head & Other Drawings

10 best books like Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head & Other Drawings (B. Kliban): Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Vol. 1, Amphigorey, Amphigorey Too, Cautionary Tales for Children, Ways of Seeing, Doonesbury's Greatest Hits: A Mid-Seventies Revue, The Frank Book, M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work, The Greatest of Marlys, The World of Chas Addams

Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Vol. 1
AuthorTove Jansson
ISBN1894937805
Moomin Book One is the first volume of Drawn & Quarterly’s publishing plan to reprint the entire strip drawn by Jansson before she handed over the reins to her brother Lars in 1960. This is the first time the strip will be published in any form in North America and will deservedly place Jansson among...
Amphigorey
AuthorEdward Gorey
ISBN0399504338
The title of this deliciously creepy collection of Gorey's work stems from the word amphigory, meaning a nonsense verse or composition. As always, Gorey's painstakingly cross-hatched pen and ink drawings are perfectly suited to his oddball verse and prose. The first book of 15, "The Unstrung Harp,"...
Amphigorey Too
AuthorEdward Gorey
ISBN0399504206
contains The Beastly Baby, The Nursery Frieze, The Pious Infant, The Evil Garden, The Inanimate Tragedy, The Gilded Bat, The Iron Tonic, The Osbick Bird, The Chinese Obelisks (bis), The Deranged Cousins, The Eleventh Episode, [The Untitled Book], The Lavender Leotard, The Disrespectful Summons,...
Cautionary Tales for Children
AuthorHilaire Belloc
ISBN0151007152
For readers of any age, a witty and strikingly irreverent collection of moral guidance Most notable among prolific English satirist Hilaire Belloc's writings are the sharp and clever admonishments he composed for children. Collected here and illustrated to wonderful haunting effect by Edward...
Ways of Seeing
AuthorJohn Berger
ISBN0140135154
John Berger’s Classic Text on Art
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener...
Doonesbury's Greatest Hits: A Mid-Seventies Revue
AuthorG.B. Trudeau
ISBN0030448565
Revisiting reprinted strips of this groundbreaking hybrid comic strip / editorial cartoon creation is like going back in time and being comic strip bitch slapped to how times haven't changed much especially in politics. Artist and commentator Trudeau deftly blended commentary on current events...
The Frank Book
AuthorJim Woodring
ISBN1560975342
by Jim Woodring
Since 1991, these lusciously rendered, hypnotic fables have dazzled comics readers the world over. All the Frank stories in one massive and deluxe tome. Between its handsome cloth covers are 344 pages of Frank comics, drawings and oddities. A fancy dust jacket, swoon-inducing...
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work
AuthorM.C. Escher
ISBN3822858641
Presenting the structurally unthinkable as though it were a law of nature M.C. Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden (Netherlands). He received his first drawing lessons during secondary school from F.W. van der Haagen, who also taught him the block printing, thus fostering Escher's innate graphic...
The Greatest of Marlys
AuthorLynda Barry
ISBN1570612609
Lynda Barry had a bona fide hit with Cruddy, and her fans are now calling for her older comic strips, all out of print. This book answers the call as it delivers the life and times of Marlys Mullen, the most beloved character in Barry's nationally syndicated comic strip, "Ernie Pook's Comeek." This is a...
The World of Chas Addams
AuthorCharles Addams
This is almost 400 pages of a cartoon from the sunday comics section of the paper. Each page has a picture and it may have a line underneath or not. Most of these are in black and white and about half of them are the Addams family characters. It is from his career; the 1930s to the 1970s.

Charles has...
The World of Edward Gorey
AuthorClifford Ross
ISBN0810990830
Though I've been attracted to Gorey's art for some time now, I couldn't have told you before I read this book why I was. According to the interview here, Gorey adores Dickens (especially his lesser-read works) and, according to interpretation offered in the essay, in his art he both celebrates and parodies...
Little Nemo: 1905-1914
AuthorWinsor McCay
ISBN3822863009
Little Nemo: 1905-1914 contains every Little Nemo newspaper strip from its prime era.

I first encountered Little Nemo in a NES game about a thousand years ago. Since then, everyone from Bill Watterson to Moebius cites him as an influence. I found this on the cheap and decided to dive in.

First...
My Crowd
AuthorCharles Addams
ISBN0760749671
Long before sick humor was in vogue, the deliciously ghoulish cartoons of Charles Addams had established his reputation as one of the deans of American comic art. The New Yorker published its first Addams cartoon in 1932, and his cast of genial ghouls, friendly freaks, and the famous family brought...
The Epiplectic Bicycle
AuthorEdward Gorey
ISBN0747541655
I do love Edward Gorey and this is a great little oddity. It appears no one dies during this story, but do they really not die? The end leaves us wondering what happened to the kids and what is going on?? This is about 2 kids and a bicycle having adventures. It did make me laugh. There are not that many frames,...
Childhood Is Hell
AuthorMatt Groening
ISBN0007180268
I read this in hiding when I was in 5th grade. It doesn't seem so scandalous anymore. Just remember there is more to Matt Groening than The Simpsons- he actually used to be kind of cool! Look out for the Marlys reference: Groening and Lynda Barry are good friends.

I realized one of my favorite things...
Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things
AuthorBerkeley Breathed
ISBN0316107255
Enter the bizarre, profound, hilarious and peculiar world of Opus the Penguin. These newspaper comics were stand-alone funny in their time and, almost always, topical and thought provoking. The world of these lovable characters carried the flavor of the times in which they were penned and offered...
It Came from The Far Side
AuthorGary Larson
ISBN0751504211
It Came From the Far Side puts the "fun" in "funny." A lot of these comic strips made me smile and a few of them made me laugh out loud. They are just plain absurd.

Gary Larson is a master of taking the all the stupid things humans do and putting them in the the strangest positions, like that of cows speaking...
It's Obvious You Won't Survive by Your Wits Alone
AuthorScott Adams
ISBN0752202014
Dilbert is the Everyman in the down-sized, techno-centered workplace of the nineties. He's the corporately innocent engineer who experiences the absurdities and oddities of office life from his (sometimes shrinking) cubicle. Complemented by his sarcastic and power-hungry dog, Dogbert (aspiring...
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