A timeless meditation on art and commerce seen through the life of an early-twentieth-century Jewish rug maker An expectant father, Mendleman's life goes through an upheaval when he discovers he can no longer earn a living doing the work that defines him: making well-crafted rugs by hand. A proud artisan, he takes his donkey-drawn cart to the market only to be turned away when the distinctive shop he once sold to now only stocks cheaply manufactured merchandise. As the realities of the mar...

Before penning his acclaimed graphic novel Market Day and founding the Center for Cartoon Studies, James Sturm proved his worth as a master cartoonist with the eloquent graphic novel, The Golem’s Mighty Swing, one of the first breakout graphic novel hits of the twenty-first century. Sturm’s fascination with the invisible America has been the crux of his comics work, exploring the rarely-told or oft-forgotten bits of history that define a country. By reuniting America’s greatest pastime wit...

How could this happen? The question of 2016 becomes deeply personal in James Sturm’s riveting graphic novel Off Season, which charts one couple’s divisive separation during Bernie Sanders’s loss to Hillary Clinton, Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump, and the disorienting months that followed. We see a father navigating life as a single parent and coping with the disintegration of a life-defining relationship. Amid the upheaval lie tender moments with his kids—a sleeping child being carried in ...

Armadillo is trying to come up with a plan for global domination...but with every new idea, being a bad guy seems a little less fun-especially if ruling the world means losing your best friend. Readers will delight in star cartoonist James Sturm's tender and just depiction of a friendship in peril.James Sturm is the author of several books for kids, including the Adventures in Cartooning series and the forthcoming Ape and Armadillo Take Over the World. Stu...

Watership Down: The Graphic Novel captures Richard Adams's epic tale of courage, friendship, hope, and survival.Spectacularly adapted by award-winning author James Sturm and gorgeously illustrated by bestselling artist Joe Sutphin.'Every page of this adaptation is a loving tribute to Richard Adams's masterpiece' - Andrew Peterson, author of The Wingfeather Saga.For more than 50 years, Watership Down has charmed rea...

Jon Scieszka's Guys Read anthology series for tweens turns to nonfiction in its fifth volume, True Stories. The fifth installment in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading features ten stories that are 100% amazing, 100% adventurous, 100% unbelievable—and 100% true. A star-studded group of award-winning nonfiction authors and journalists provides something for every reader, all aligned with the Common Core State Standards. Compiled and edited by real-life literature legend Jon Scieszka, Gu...

A must-have collection for comics fans and creators everywhere, packed with interviews and original comics by today’s foremost graphic novelists.Respected anthologist Leonard S. Marcus turns his literary microscope to the world of comics, which has lately morphed and matured at a furious pace. Powerful influences from manga to the movies to underground comix have influenced the thirteen artists and writers interviewed in these pages to create their own word-and-pic...

The Knight's best friend is her horse, Edward. They go everywhere together and do everything together! But when the Knight gets a gryphon, suddenly all she talks about is how awesome her new pet is. Edward can't help it-he's jealous! But the gryphon turns out to be more of a peril than a pet, and it's Edward who comes to the rescue in the end. It turns out that gryphons aren't so great...but Edward sure is!The second of four adorable picture books from the creators of Adventures in...

The Knight can't wait for her first camping trip! She and her horse Edward pack everything they need--including her beloved Teddy--and head out into the woods. But when it's time for bed, Teddy is nowhere to be found!A helpful rabbit thinks this "Teddy" sounds familiar, and sends the Knight off to a cave... but that's no teddy bear in that cave. That's a real bear!In this sweet, simple adventure, basic comics elements combine with the picture book format to create a picture...

L’esplosiva combinazione del genio di Stan Lee e Jack Kirby da luce ai Fantastici Quattro, i primi super eroi con super problemi, fondamenta dell’Universo Marvel. 2003. L’icona del fumetto underground James Sturm (Americana) e l’inconfondibile Guy Davis (Sandman Mystery Theatre) si pongono una domanda: e se Lee e Kirby si fossero ispirati a persone realmente esistenti? La risposta a questa domanda è Molecole instabili, un capolavoro che mescola mainstream e indy, vincito...

LA VÉRITABLE ORIGINE DES QUATRE FANTASTIQUES ! 1958. Tout semble réussir au docteur Reed Richards, l'inventeur d'une microsonde optique révolutionnaire. Alors que ses recherches sont en passe de bouleverser le monde du textile, il est contacté par le gouvernement pour un projet top-secret. Entre-temps, sous la pression de ses supérieurs, Reed demande à sa fiancée Susan Sturm d'organiser une réception à leur domicile de Glen Cove. Cet événement, en apparence anodin, va bouleverser à jamais ...

In this long-awaited third volume in Adventure in Cartooning series, you’ll find everything you need to dream up and draw fantastical worlds for your character to inhabit!The Knight is back and ready for another cartooning adventure with Edward the Horse! As every adventurer knows, you can’t have an epic journey without an epic new world to explore. They could fly to a floating metropolis or swim through an underwater empire, trek across a frozen tundra or climb to...