School is Hell
10 best books like School is Hell (Matt Groening): X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, Amphigorey, X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga, Cautionary Tales for Children, Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men, Vol. 1, Une Semaine de Bonté, The World of Edward Gorey, The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker, My Crowd
X-Men: Days of Future Past
| Author | Chris Claremont |
| ISBN | 0785115609 |
One of the strongest X-Men stories ever
This edition not only include the main story "Days of Future Past" but also several issues before and after of the story. This particular collected TPB contains "Uncanny X-Men" #138 - 143 and also the "X-Men" Annual #4. So, my rating is an overall...
| Author | Edward Gorey |
| ISBN | 0747541604 |
The Gashlycrumb Tinies: or, After the Outing is an abecedarian book written by Edward Gorey that was first published in 1963. Gorey tells the tale of 26 children (each representing a letter of the alphabet) and their untimely deaths in rhyming dactylic couplets, accompanied by the author's distinctive...
| Author | Edward Gorey |
| ISBN | 0399504338 |
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,"...
X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga
| Author | Chris Claremont |
| ISBN | 0785122133 |
Gathered together by Professor Charles Xavier to protect a world that fears and hates them, the X-Men had fought many battles, been on adventures that spanned galaxies, grappled enemies of limitless might, but none of this could prepare them for the most shocking struggle they would ever face. One...
| Author | Hilaire Belloc |
| ISBN | 0151007152 |
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...
Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men, Vol. 1
| Author | Stan Lee |
| ISBN | 0785108459 |
Five youths gifted with an extra power that set them apart from ordinary homo sapiens and charged to protect a world that feared and hated them because of their genetic gifts. They were the first class of X-Men.
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were trying to create an entirely different comics formula...
| Author | Max Ernst |
| ISBN | 0486232522 |
“One of the clandestine classics of our century.” —The New York Times
This is the legendary collage masterpieces of Max Ernst (b. 1891), one of the leading figures of the surrealistic movement and among the most original artists of the 20th century. From old catalog and pulp novel illustrations,...
| Author | Clifford Ross |
| ISBN | 0810990830 |
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...
The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker
| Author | Robert Mankoff |
| ISBN | 1579123228 |
The book that Janet Maslin of The New York Times has called "indispensable" and "a transfixing study of American mores and manners that happens to incorporate boundless laughs, too" is finally available in paperback—fully updated and featuring a brand new introduction by Adam Gopnik.
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| Author | Charles Addams |
| ISBN | 0760749671 |
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...
| Author | Edward Gorey |
| ISBN | 0747541655 |
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,...
| Author | Gary Larson |
| ISBN | 0836220870 |
This is the seventh Far Side collection (originally published in the UK in 1988 - I read the 1991 Futura edition), featuring cartoons from 1980 through to 1987. It starts well, with the two pilots playing at turbulence and never puts a foot wrong. Of the panels themselves, my favourites include “cow...
Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students by Their Brains
| Author | LouAnne Johnson |
| ISBN | 0787974714 |
From seating plans to Shakespeare, Teaching Outside the Box offers practical strategies that will help both new teachers and seasoned veterans create dynamic classroom environments where students enjoy learning and teachers enjoy teaching. This indispensable book is filled with no-nonsense...
Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1
| Author | Stan Lee |
| ISBN | 0785112561 |
1960’s comics have a certain style that is either fun or ridiculous, depending on your point of view. Villains engage in a lot of expositional speeches, nobody is ever seriously hurt in all of these superhuman battles (somehow), and the dialogue is awfully campy.
That said, if you...
Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men, Vol. 2
| Author | Stan Lee |
| ISBN | 0785109838 |
I really enjoyed these adventures and how different the first stories were. They made me excited for each next one. It was only in the last quarter of this volume that I became kind of disappointed at the stories. Some of them were still interesting but things happened that was just too convenient or it...
Marvel Masterworks: Spider-Woman, Vol. 1
Collects Marvel Spotlight (1971) #32, Marvel Two-In-One (1974) #29-33, Spider-Woman (1978) #1-8.
Jessica Drew debuts as Spider-Woman in her inaugural Marvel Masterworks! Raised within the arms of the terrorist group Hydra, Jessica was taught to see the world from their twisted point...
Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men, Vol. 1
| Author | Chris Claremont |
| ISBN | 0785111921 |
Flashback:
Now, to be honest, I have grew up with the 90s X-Men cartoon series, so I have not really read any X-Men comics prior to the 90s, so reading “Uncanny X-Men” from Marvel Masterworks was a great look back to the 70s X-Men comics where the second generation X-Men (Wolverine,...
Jinxed: Baseball Superstitions from Around the Major Leagues True Stories
| Author | Ken Leiker |
| ISBN | 0345485440 |
In America’s Pastime, sometimes talent and hard work aren’t enough. Now, in Jinxed, some of the best baseball scribes in the business catalog the superstitions, rituals, eccentricities, routines, and just plain bizarre behavior of players who believe such actions will give them an edge on the...
