The Most Dangerous Game: A Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Collection
10 best books like The Most Dangerous Game: A Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Collection (Zach Weinersmith): Zoo City, Cartoon History of the Universe I, Vol. 1-7: From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great, Displacement: A Travelogue, xkcd: volume 0, Questionable Content, Vol. 2, Step Aside, Pops, Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home, Caesars' Wives: The Women Who Shaped the History of Rome, Special Exits, Good Eggs
Author | Lauren Beukes |
ISBN | 0007327684 |
Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, she’s forced to take on her least favourite kind of job – missing persons.
Being hired by reclusive music producer Odi...
Cartoon History of the Universe I, Vol. 1-7: From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great
Author | Larry Gonick |
ISBN | 0385265204 |
This is a really fun—and actually quite comprehensive—historical overview. It's very handy as sort of a quick-reference guide and/or as a supplemental companion to the reading of primary source history texts. (I found it to be fabulously helpful along these lines with respect to Herodotus.)
A...
Displacement: A Travelogue
Author | Lucy Knisley |
ISBN | 1606998102 |
In her graphic memoirs, New York Times-best selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley paints a warts-and-all portrait of contemporary, twentysomething womanhood, like writer Lena Dunham (Girls). In the next installment of her graphic travelogue series, Displacement, Knisley volunteers to watch over...
Author | Randall Munroe |
ISBN | 0615314465 |
Randall Munroe describes xkcd as a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. While it's practically required reading in the geek community, xkcd fans are as varied as the comic's subject matter. This book creates laughs from science jokes on one page to relationship humor on another.
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Author | Jeph Jacques |
ISBN | 1936561964 |
This book collects strips 300-599 of the webcomic Questionable Content. QC should be read in order, so check out Volume 1 or strips 1-299 first.
This collection features a lot of my all time favorite QC material. Raven (added to the coffee shop staff at the end of the last volume), becomes a more...
Author | Kate Beaton |
ISBN | 1770462082 |
The sequel to the hit comic collection Hark! a Vagrant, which appeared on best of lists from Time, NPR and USA Today; spent five months on the New York Times bestseller list; and won Harvey, Ignatz, and Doug Wright awards.
Cartoonist Kate Beaton returns with all-new sidesplitting comics that...
Author | Nicole J. Georges |
ISBN | 0544577833 |
From an award-winning artist, a memoir of life with a difficult, beloved dog that will resonate with anybody who has ever had a less than perfectly behaved pet
When Nicole Georges was sixteen she adopted Beija, a dysfunctional shar-pei/corgi mix—a troublesome combination of tiny and attack,...
Author | Annelise Freisenbruch |
ISBN | 1416583033 |
In scandals and power struggles obscured by time and legend, the wives, mistresses, mothers, sisters, and daughters of the Caesars have been popularly characterized as heartless murderers, shameless adulteresses, and conniving politicians in the high dramas of the Roman court. Yet little has...
Joyce Farmer's memoir chronicles the decline of the author's parents' health, their relationship with one another and with their daughter, and how they cope with the day-to-day emotional fragility of the most taxing time of their lives.
Elderly parents Lars and Rachel, who have enjoyed...
Author | Phoebe Potts |
ISBN | 0061711462 |
In the tradition of the acclaimed graphic memoirs Fun Home and Persepolis comes a funny, insightful, and deeply moving book about learning to appreciate what we have when we can't seem to get what we want.
For Phoebe Potts, the path to maternal fulfillment has not been easy. All her friends seem...
Author | Lisa Hanawalt |
ISBN | 1770461167 |
My Dirty Dumb Eyes introduces Lisa Hanawalt as a first-rank cartoonist/humorist/stalker for an audience that likes its humor idiosyncratic, at times anthropomorphic or scatological, often uncomfortable, and always sharp witted. Her world vision is intricately rendered in a full spectrum of...
Author | Demetri Martin |
ISBN | 1455512052 |
The New York Times bestselling writer and comedian Demetri Martin is back with a brand new collection of drawings that urge you to:
POINT YOUR FACE AT THIS
In his first book, This Is a Book, Demetri Martin introduced fans and readers to his unique brand of long-form humor writing. That...
Action Philosophers! Giant-Sized Thing, Vol. 1
Author | Fred Van Lente |
ISBN | 0977832902 |
Action Philosophers! details the lives and thoughts of history's A-list brain trust in a hip and humorous fashion that proves that philosophy is not just the province of boring, tweed-enveloped professors.
Action Philosophers! Giant-Sized Thing, Volume 1 collects the first three sold-out...
Love and Capes Vol. 1: Do You Want To Know A Secret?
Author | Thomas F. Zahler |
ISBN | 1600102751 |
Abby and Mark are a typical couple. At least, that's what Abby thinks. Unknown to her, her boyfriend is not just an accountant, but also the super-powered crime-fighter, the Crusader! See Mark tell Abby he's The Crusader. Find out how Abby deals with some of his super-ex-girlfriends. And learn the difference...
Wreck the Halls: Cake Wrecks Gets "Festive"
Author | Jen Yates |
ISBN | 1449407757 |
A holiday-themed follow-up to the New York Times best-seller Cake Wrecks, Wreck the Halls features over 150 all new four-color, what-were-they-thinking cake wrecks from author and award-winning blogger Jen Yates. Cakewrecks.com receives over 4.6 million page views per month and is ranked one...
Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants
Author | Matthew Inman |
ISBN | 1449427707 |
Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants is the second variety comic collection and fourth book from the comedic mastermind behind TheOatmeal.com, Matthew Inman. Classics from the website, including “Dear Sriracha Rooster Sauce,” “What It Means When You Say Literally,” and “What We...