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      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        November 2020

        Marie Duval

        Maverick Victorian cartoonist

        by Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin, Julian Waite, Anna Barton, Andrew Smith

        Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabelle Émilie de Tessier [1847-1890]), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century. It discusses key themes and practices of Duval's vision and production, relative to the wider historic social, cultural and economic environments in which her work was made, distributed and read, identifing Duval as an exemplary radical practitioner. The book interrogates the relationships between the practices and the forms of print, story-telling, drawing and stage performance. It focuses on the creation of new types of cultural work by women and highlights the style of Duval's drawings relative to both the visual conventions of theatre production and the significance of the visualisation of amateurism and vulgarity. Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist establishes Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century.

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        November 2020

        Marie Duval

        Maverick Victorian cartoonist

        by Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin, Julian Waite, Anna Barton, Andrew Smith

        Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabelle Émilie de Tessier [1847-1890]), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century. It discusses key themes and practices of Duval's vision and production, relative to the wider historic social, cultural and economic environments in which her work was made, distributed and read, identifing Duval as an exemplary radical practitioner. The book interrogates the relationships between the practices and the forms of print, story-telling, drawing and stage performance. It focuses on the creation of new types of cultural work by women and highlights the style of Duval's drawings relative to both the visual conventions of theatre production and the significance of the visualisation of amateurism and vulgarity. Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist establishes Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century.

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2024

        Marie Duval

        Maverick Victorian Cartoonist

        by Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin, Julian Waite

        Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabelle Émilie de Tessier, 1847-1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century. It discusses key themes and practices of Duval's vision and production, relative to the wider historic social, cultural and economic environments in which her work was made, distributed and read, identifing Duval as an exemplary radical practitioner. The book interrogates the relationships between the practices and the forms of print, story-telling, drawing and stage performance. It focuses on the creation of new types of cultural work by women and highlights the style of Duval's drawings relative to both the visual conventions of theatre production and the significance of the visualisation of amateurism and vulgarity. Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist establishes Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century.

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        November 2020

        Marie Duval

        Maverick Victorian cartoonist

        by Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin, Julian Waite, Anna Barton, Andrew Smith

        Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabelle Émilie de Tessier [1847-1890]), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century. It discusses key themes and practices of Duval's vision and production, relative to the wider historic social, cultural and economic environments in which her work was made, distributed and read, identifing Duval as an exemplary radical practitioner. The book interrogates the relationships between the practices and the forms of print, story-telling, drawing and stage performance. It focuses on the creation of new types of cultural work by women and highlights the style of Duval's drawings relative to both the visual conventions of theatre production and the significance of the visualisation of amateurism and vulgarity. Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist establishes Duval as a unique but exemplary figure in a transformational period of the nineteenth century.

      • Cartoons & comic strips

        To the right and the reverse

        Vida y obra de Gustave Verbeek

        by Roberto Iglesias

        Gustave Verbeek between 1903-1905 drew “Loveking&Muffaroo” for 64 weeks, a strange weekly cut comic strip in the New York Herald where two nice characters from a fantasy world could be read up and down just by turning the pages From the newspaper. A comic strip that united the worlds of the thousand-year-old Ukiyo-e pictorial technique and the purest nonsense or non-sense literature with touches of Dadaism and Surrealism. This book proposes a journey through his life and work.   Gustave Verbeek entre 1903-1905 dibujó “Loveking&Muffaroo” durante 64 semanas, una extraña tira cómica de corte semanal en el New York Herald donde dos simpáticos personajes de un mundo de fantasía se podían leer al derecho y al revés con sólo rotar las páginas del diario.Una comic strip que unía los mundos de la milenaria técnica pictórica del Ukiyo-e y la más pura literatura sin sentido o non-sense con pinceladas de dadaísmo y surrealismo. Este libro propone un recorrido por su vida y obra.

      • Cartoons & comic strips

        30 Minutes of Economics in Cartoon

        by Chen Lei

        Chen Lei's "30 Minutes in Cartoon" series has been popular among readers in all age groups. Among the millions of readers, there are a large group of primary and secondary school students, and some middle school students even use his comic books as a must-read for history, poetry, science and economics. Chen Lei and his work have opened up a new model of "reading for pleasure"- hand-drawn comics and humorous bit of wisdom. Chen Lei uses the funny character image and humor section to tell stories about history in an easy-to-understand way. In just half an hour, Chen Lei hopes to convey serious historical and scientific knowledge to the reader. He establishes a logical thinking mechanism for people to gain knowledge.Chen Lei's book has such a fatal disadvantage: it provides you a non-stop workout for your abs as you will be laughing while reading.

      • Cartoons & comic strips

        Double meaning

        La técnica del Yoge-e en la obra de Gustave Verbeek

        by Roberto Iglesias

        Gustave Verbeek, creating his comic strip “Loveking&Muffaroo” for the New York Herald between 1903-1905, relived what he had learned in his native Japan. For this he used the ancient Japanese technique of Joge-e, a derivation of the well-known Ukiyo-e, where the xylography or images engraved in wood could be seen and read with double meaning depending on whether it was turned to the right or the other way around as if it were an ambigram. All amalgamated with hints of dialogue with fine traces of nonsense or non-sense literature.   Gustave Verbeek al crear su tira cómica “Loveking & Muffaroo” para el New York Herald entre 1903-1905, revivió lo aprendido en su Japón natal. Para ello usó la milenaria técnica japonesa del Joge-e, una derivación del conocido Ukiyo-e, donde la xilografía o imágenes grabadas en madera se podían ver y leer con doble sentido según se gire al derecho o al revés como si fuera un ambigrama. Todo amalgamado con pizcas de diálogos con finos trazos de literatura sin sentido o non-sense.

      • Cartoons & comic strips

        The Colibrillo Cat

        La huella de Krazy Kat y George Herriman en Argentina

        by Roberto Iglesias

        George Herriman with his “The Krazy Kat” was one of the architects of the comic. His merit was that despite the patronage of his admirer, the American press mogul William R. Hearst, he never lost or betrayed his creative freedom. However, translating his work into Spanish in Latin America was not an easy task, much less for writers who had to adapt their strip to the Argentine idiosyncrasy. In the following pages we will try to investigate his work, its problematic translation into Spanish and its journey in one of the main Argentine newspapers of all time.   George Herriman con su “The Krazy Kat”, fue uno de los arquitectos de la historieta. Su mérito fue que a pesar del padrinazgo de su admirador, el magnate de la prensa estadounidense William R. Hearst, nunca perdió ni traiciono su libertad creativa. Sin embargo traducir su obra al español en latinoamericano fue tarea fácil y mucho menos para escritores que tenían que adaptar su tira cómica a la idiosincrasia argentina.

      • Humour

        Ephemera

        Life is short

        by Gregory Papadoyiannis

        Is our life too short? Or is it too long? Before answering the question above, it would be worth asking a young ephemeron that has a whole day of life ahead of it and is already getting bored. Maybe this would change your mind about life's ephemeral nature. Ephemera (aka mayflies) is a species of insects that belong to the order of Ephemeroptera. They grow slowly into larvae in rivers and lakes and their adult life (if they are lucky) only lasts for one, single day. What kind of life is this? Who knows? If you ask an ephemeron (who’s still alive), it would surely reply that it could be worse...

      • Humour

        CATBOY

        OGN

        by BENJI NATE

        CATBOY is a collection of twenty-two short comedic vignettes of the everyday adventures of Olive – socially awkward, earnest, millennial art student – and her naïve, enthusiastic, newly “human” cat-companion, Henry. From mean girls to patriarchal double standards, the world is not always kind to Olive and Henry. But even in the face of these obstacles, their friendship sees them through. If you like cats and cute, you’ll love CATBOY. Previously featured as a wepaperbackomic on VICE.com.

      • Humour
        June 2020

        SEXO MAL

        by CARLES PONSÍ

      • Biography & True Stories
        October 2014

        The Dark Side, Part 2 - Real Life Accounts of an NHS Paramedic

        The Traumatic, the Tragic and the Tearful

        by Andy Thompson

        Following up on his well-received first book, Andy Thompson provides another captivating, thought-provoking and at times intense glimpse into the daily life of a Paramedic working in the UK’s National Health Service. In the style of his first book, Andy recalls each event from the detailed documentation recorded at the time, each account written in a way that puts the reader right there next to him so that you live the events in real-time, hear the dialogue between paramedics, patient, their loved ones and other healthcare professionals as it would have been, and share in Andy’s thought processes during each of the ten very different situations he encounters. The term ‘The Dark Side’ describes the frontline emergency aspect of the Ambulance Service, since paramedics frequently experience sombre situations. In ‘The Dark Side, Part 2’ you will share in some truly traumatic, tragic and tearful events involving a seemingly vibrant, healthy young patient, a prison inmate, the victims of an horrific car crash, heart attacks, a frightening epileptic fit, the alarming effects of an allergic reaction, and what can happen when under-strain doctors prescribe the wrong medication. But there’s still room for lighthearted moments and a taste of the sometimes dark humour that allows paramedics to continually deal with events most of us would find too horrific. The detail in the descriptions of the care given to each patient on-scene by Andy and his colleagues will have you marvelling at the ability of these healthcare professionals to work at such speed of thought, buying enough time to deliver a patient into the specialist hands of hospital care and often full recovery. Of course there are inevitably also those times when tears of hope turn to tears of despair for loved ones. You cannot feel that pain until it happens to you, but this book will bring you mighty close to it at times.

      • Cartoons & comic strips

        Strike Four!

        The Crankshaft Baseball Book

        by Tom Batiuk (author/artist), Chuck Ayers (artist)

        “It is somehow fitting that the pinnacle of Crankshaft’s baseball career was pitching for the only team in the world named after a sort of misfit duck.”—Jamie Farr, from the ForewordThe Toledo Mud Hens—a farm team for the Detroit Tigers—once had a budding pitcher named Ed Crankshaft. At least that’s how partners in cartooning, writer Tom Batiuk and artist Chuck Ayers, scripted the main character in Crankshaft. This enjoyable volume collects all of Crankshaft’s baseball-themed exploits. Fans will enjoy revisiting Crankshaft’s reminisces about his minor league pitching career and his comic attempts to recapture his youthful successes on the diamond. Strike Four! portrays Crankshaft’s greatest triumph when, on a sultry summer night in 1940, the Tigers came to town for an exhibition game against the Mud Hens. Pitching for the Mud Hens, Ed faced the top of the Tigers lineup—Hank Greenberg, Charlie Gehringer, and Rudy York—and struck out all three. The next year, the Tigers called Ed up to the major leagues, but unfortunately, so did Uncle Sam. After his service, Crankshaft returned home, but not to play baseball. He married and had two daughters. His grandson Max was his last chance to reprise his baseball career, but it was not meant to be. Strike Four! The Crankshaft Baseball Book allows Batiuk and Ayers to explore a man’s life and humorously and touchingly to examine how only barely touching the brass ring shaped it—and left him a little cranky.

      • Humour

        Scotland for Beginners

        Bannockburn An' A' That

        by Rupert. Besley

      • Cartoons & comic strips

        How to Draw Cartoons

        by Brian Platt

        Fun, simple and entertaining – this book will help the complete novice turn out professional looking cartoons in minutes. Suitable for all age groups.

      • Humour

        Just Dogs

        by Brian Platt

        A tongue-in-cheek gift range to help people see the funny side of everyday life. All illustrations are the original work of talented cartoonist. Brian Platt. Six books make up the series.

      • Humour

        Just Cats

        by Brian Platt

        A tongue-in-cheek gift range to help people see the funny side of everyday life. All illustrations are the original work of talented cartoonist. Brian Platt. Six books make up the series.

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