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Machine of Death
MACHINE OF DEATH tells thirty-four different stories about people who know how they will die. Prepare to have your tears jerked, your spine tingled, your funny bone tickled, your mind blown, your pulse quickened, or your heart warmed. Or better yet, simply prepare to be surprised. Because even when people do have perfect knowledge of the future, there's no telling exactly how things will turn out.
Beards of Our Forefathers
"A collection of Wondermark comic strips"--Cover.
This Is How You Die
If a machine could predict how you would die, would you want to know? This is the tantalizing premise of This Is How You Die, the brilliant follow-up anthology to the self-published bestseller, Machine of Death. THIS IS HOW YOU DIE Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death The machines started popping up around the world. The offer was tempting: with a simple blood test, anyone could know how they would die. But the machines didn't give dates or specific circumstances-just a single word or phrase. DROWNED, CANCER, OLD AGE, CHOKED ON A HANDFUL OF POPCORN. And though the predictions were always accurate, they were also often frustratingly vague. OLD AGE, it turned out, could mean either dying of natural causes, or being shot by an elderly, bedridden man in a botched home invasion. The machines held onto that old-world sense of irony in death: you can know how it's going to happen, but you'll still be surprised when it does. This addictive anthology--sinister, witty, existential, and fascinating--collects the best of the thousands of story submissions the editors received in the wake of the success of the first volume, and exceeds the first in every way.
Dispatches from Wondermark Manor
Victorian adventure -- an era full of top-hatted intrigue, dirigibles galore, all-too-demure sensuality and completely unironic classism. Now there's an antidote: Dispatches from Wondermark Manor, a rollicking, absurd, completely ridiculous yarn from the author of the celebrated comic strip "Wondermark." Taking the tropes of Conan Doyle-style adventure fiction and ramping them way over the top, Malki's story brings together: Ghosts (of course) Airships (of course) High society intrigue Old men in salt barrels Horses that cannot fly Frightful moustaches aplenty Cheese handling as an artform General bad decisions, and Casual mass murder All in a stunningly-designed package evocative of the grandest pulp style. Praised by many for its strangeness and wonder, Dispatches from Wondermark Manor is offered here for the very first time in a complete omnibus edition, including all three volumes of the novels (originally available only as long out-of-print chapbooks)plus a separate prologue from Malki's book Beards of our Forefathers, plus all-new hand-drawn maps of the locations in the story. Buy with confidence! This edition is guaranteed at least 48% opium-free by law.
The Annotated Wondermark
The very first collection of the Ignatz-nominated comic strip Wondermark, now reprinted in a stunning new edition to coincide with subsequent volumes published by Dark Horse Books. Author David Malki ! uses Victorian woodcuts and engravings as building blocks to create surreal and hilarious comic strips about contemporary life. This book collects the first 100 comic strips (from 2003-2004) and adds bonus comics, behind-the-scenes features, and an introduction by Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics.
Arab Women in Arab News
This book addresses east-west understandings of Arab women as portrayed through translated media. The vast majority of media studies on Arab women are western-based. They study the effect of western stereotypes in western media depictions of Arab women. There is a vast scholarly literature tracing western stereotypes of Arab women from medieval times to the present. From 1800, the dominant western stereotype of Arab women depicts them as passive and oppressed. Thirty years of social science media research in the west has shown that media images of Arab women reinforce this two hundred year old stereotype. Much of this research has studied silent "image bites" of Arab women, where women are p...
The Elephant of Surprise
Would you know what to do if all your bones fell out? For one idealistic young elephant, this is no mere hypothetical...This book of Wondermark comic strips tells the full epic story of a sick elephant, as well all the other sick elephants he encounters. It is definitely something you should check out. Contains comics originally published at wondermark.com (the sick elephant storyline from 2018, as well as all the older classic strips referenced in the story).
Hark! A Vagrant
Since Kate Beaton appeared on the comics scene in 2007 her cartoons have become fan favourites and gathered an enormous following, appearing in the New Yorker, Harper and the LA Times, to name but a few. Her website, Hark! A Vagrant, receives an average of 1.2 million hits a month, 500 thousand of them unique. Why? Because she's not just making silly jokes. She's making jokes about everything we learned in school, and more. Praised for their expression, intelligence and comic timing, her cartoons are best known for their wonderfully light touch on historical and literary topics. The jokes are a knowing look at history through a very modern perspective, written for every reader, and are a cru...
Tweet Me Harder
How can a centrifuge be used to reverse male-pattern baldness? Do whales experience the passage of time at a faster rate than surface-dwellers? And why does Garfield hate Mondays -- he doesn't even have a job! The answers to these and literally dozens of other questions are found in this hilarious collection of conversations between Kris Straub and David Malki !, the hosts of Tweet Me Harder, the world's first, best, only, and last talkback-enabled interactive audio podblast. This first volume collects Episodes 1-10 of the popular podblast -- an iTunes staff favorite -- and adds annotations, illustrations and indexing for rapid reference. Never wonder again how many grappling-hooks it takes ...
Where the Wolf
Sally Rosen Kindred’s third book, Where the Wolf, is a wood where a girl-turned-woman, a daughter-turned-mother, goes walking, searching for the warm fur, the hackles and hurts—past and future—inside her. These poems explore how stories—fairy tales, family memories, myths, and dreams—tell us, and let us tell each other, who we are, and what’s wild and sacred in our connections. From “the beast your mother made/ who scans hood and bed,” to the ghost-guard summoned by a child on the night her family fractures, to the teenage son who transforms into “beauty, his dread-body,” the beings in these poems are themselves stories, spells: alchemized through language, always becoming, bearing hope and loss. They fragment in anxiety, and form into new wilderness. They open themselves to reconstruction, redemption. Through it all, “Wolf is the ghost of a hurt remembering itself. Is She. You can hear Her between trees.” These poems are a calling out—through meadows, emptied houses, dark skies—to wolf and self, parent and child, girl and woman, love and grief.
