You've heard the tales, you've watched the movie, but have you seen The Green Book?

During the dangerous days of Jim Crow segregation, it was difficult to be an African-American traveler, as hotels that would take you or restaurants that would serve you were few and far between. This was addressed by The Negro Motorist Green Book, an annual listing of lodging, diners, gas stations, and other businesses that could handle the needs of the Black customer. Created in 1936 by Harlem-based postman Victor H. Green, the Green Book served the public until after the passage of the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s ended legal segregation.

Original copies of the Green Book are now museum pieces, but in this book you can see all the articles, all the ads, and all the listings from four editions of the Green Book, one for each decade in which the series was published. The Negro Motorist Green Book of 1938 is an early example, covering only the states east of the Mississippi River, but also presenting articles on The Automobile and What It Has Done for the American Negro as well as driving tips. By 1947, the Negro Motorist Green Book had listings for 45 of the 48 states that then existed (there was nothing for Nevada, New Hampshire, or North Dakota), and that also included directories of the Negro colleges and newspapers of the day, as well as a look at the current models from Ford and GM, and some notes on automotive design of the future. By 1954, the title had changed to The Negro Travelers' Green Book, and the volume includes an article on the highlights of San Francisco (which was fast becoming the focal point of the Negroes' future) and tourist guides to New York City and Bermdua. Finally, the Travelers' Green Book for 1963 through 1964 leads off with a state-by-state listings of rights against jimcro (Jim Crow segregation), plus it has Guide Posts for a Pleasant Trip, a couple of cartoon-illustrated sidebars on Black history-makers, a listing of major league ballparks, and other useful items for the traveler.

Reprints of the Green Book published by About Comics have gotten coverage by Newsweek, the Guardian, and BBC News, and more. They are carried by major museums, and have been used by TV and film. Now you can get four editions in one convenient volume, and see why the New York Times called the Green Book a beacon for Black travelers.

• Contains annotations, plots, interviews, and scripts by many of comics' hottest writers, including Kurt Busiek, Neil Gaiman, Greg Rucka, Kevin Smith, Jeff Smith, Marv Wolfman, and more.

Dalgoda is on a desperate mission to save his world from alien invaders. The planet Canida, where the dominant species evolved from canines, faces annihilation by the warlike Nimp unless Dal can muster Earth's resources in Canida's defense. Can he trust a race of erratic, violent beings evolved from apes? Dog may be Man's best friend, but so far, Dal has met with bigotry, deceit, and attempted assassination...and that's just Day One.

By turns light-hearted and dramatic, humorous and heartbreaking, Dalgoda tells the story of an unlikely hero with the weight of salvation on his shoulders.

The Dalgoda Omnibus collects all eight issues of Jan Strnad and Dennis Fujitake's outstanding science fiction series, a series reviewers called one of the best and most original to emerge from the 1980s independent comics movement. In addition, the Omnibus includes the four-part Dalgoda miniseries Flesh & Bones and two bonus short stories, one illustrated by comics great Kevin Nowlan-in all, over 300 pages of extraordinary comic book storytelling-plus a gallery of Dalgoda conceptual and promotional artwork by Fujitake.

Jan Strnad is a writer of comic books, cartoons, novels, and short stories. He's worked for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and independent comics (and comix) publishers, and for studios including Disney, Universal, Sony/Columbia and others. He and his wife Julie are ardent dog-lovers who have owned and fostered over a hundred dogs.

Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Dennis Fujitake was reprimanded in kindergarten for using too much drawing paper. Undeterred, he continues to this day to use too much drawing paper-for which people have willingly paid him, much to his bafflement. Ever the optimist, Dennis looks forward to living another 75 years.

Years after hanging up his hero costume, The Jam star Gordon Kirby finds himself facing something more difficult than any villain that might stalk the streets of Montreal: the complexities of a mature relationship where the romance has faded.

Canadian Hall of Fame cartoonist Befnie Mireault brings all his skills and love of the comics form to this, his first original graphic novel. Originally self-published (with support from the Xeric Foundation) solely as a limited edition volume in 2012, To Get Her is now available in an unlimited edition for the first time.

Negro America's Favorite Cartoonist That's what Langston Hughes called Ollie Harrington, whose cartoons and comic strips were a staple of America's Black newspapers for decades starting in the 1930s. In his single-panel series Dark Laughter, Harrington brought out the vibrancy of Harlem life in its day, while serving some cutting looks at the politics of the time.
At the heart of Dark Laughter is Bootsie, a cunning, conning, girl-chasing ne'er-do-well who is nonetheless beloved in his Harlem community... if often reluctantly. Bootsie is both the victim of the world's troubles and a frequent cause of them for others.
Here's a collection of prime cartoons from the mid-1950s, drawn with the detailed joy that only Ol Harrington (who also worked as Oliver W. Harrington) could bring, finally available to a larger audience.

Selected as one of the Best Books of 2022 by Prose & Panels.

A graphic novel that throws two teens into the excitement and tumult of the American Revolution, delivering the true story of the nation's founding in an approachable and thrilling manner.

When Penny, the hard-working daughter of a tavernkeeper, meets Nick, an orphaned stableboy who lives by his wits (and a few borrowed wallets), opposites do not attract. But these unlikely partners don't know that their lives are on the brink of change-of revolution-as England and the American colonies march toward war. While Nick and Penny are fictional, their adventures put them (and us!) in the thick of the action with the real-life heroes (including Paul Revere and George Washington) and battles (such as the Battle of BunkerH Hill) that shaped a brand-new country.

This book ends with a guide to the real people and events that drive this fictional story.

(Previously released as Road to Revolution!)

How did a coloring book spend 14 weeks on the New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers list The year was 1962. America was in love with the young family in the White House, speaking of them with awe and reverence. Then the JFK Coloring Book was released, and punctured all that. Conceived by publisher Alexander A. Roman, with drawings by Mad Magazine's master caricaturist Mort Drucker and text by his Mad cohort Paul Laikin and Ratfink Room comedian Jackie Kannon, the book used the form of a coloring book supposedly crafted by four year old Caroline Kennedy to poke fun at the whole Kennedy clan, their friends and their fellow players on the political scene, including every one from Frank Sinatra to Jimmy Hoffa. The publication of this unique volume lead off a whole Kennedy comedy stampede, with things like Vaughn Meader's First Family albums coming in its wake. Comedy was replaced by tragedy with JFK's assassination, and the Coloring Book which had once had print runs in the hundreds of thousands disappeared from bookstore shelves, not to return for over half a century. Now the time has come to remember Kennedy and his family not just as tragic figures, but as the way they were and the way we saw them then. As an added bonus, this edition also includes Political Wind-ups, another book full of Drucker caricatures, with text by Roman and Rochelle Davis, taking a look at the political figures of the day (Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Nixon, and many more) and asking a vital question: if this person were a wind-up toy, what would it do when you wound it up? Annotations have been included for both of the books, to educate those who are too young to have lived through the times and to remind those who may no longer remember the details. Since the release of this new edition, the JFK Coloring Book has been discussed on NPR's On The Media and in the pages of the New Republic. It's a book the world is clearly ready for again

In the 1940s, the comics pages of America's weekly Black newspapers were filled with characters both inspirational and aspirational. In addition to the life stories of great African Americans, there were fictional tales of Black reporters, Black detectives, Black government agents, Black aviators, Black people rising in the ranks of society, even Black superheroes, all to give their audiences the sense of the best that was possible.
Then there was Bootsie.
Bootsie was a liar, a womanizer, a layabout, a scammer, a cheat, and an all around disreputable dude. Among the denizens of Harlem he was scorned, threatened, detested... and yet nonetheless loved as a part of the community.
Collected in this book for the very first time are almost 150 Dark Laughter cartoons from 1941 through 1946, during which time Bootsie goes from being a draft evader to a draftee, an enlisted man, a serviceman on the ground in Europe, and ultimately to a veteran for the winning side. In these, cartoonist Ollie Harrington's lively art captures the rich reality of Bootsie's world while telling tales that are sometimes joyous, sometimes very harsh, like the world itself.

Selected as one of the Best Books of 2022 by Panels & Prose.

An inside look at the lighter side of the cloistered life.

Brother Choleric was the pen name Dom Hubert van Zeller used when cartooning about the characters he got to know during his sixty years as a Benedictine monk. With droll insight, he highlights the very human foibles that find their way into the lives of monks and nuns in the rarified environments in which they live. Choleric received the praise of everyone from his fellow monks to literati like Evelyn Waugh.

Every comics writer brings their own style to their script, and here you'll find nine example scripts from writers of comics and graphic novels. See how Mark Waid writes a crime tale, Eric Shanower writes an Age of Bronze script for himself to follow, Bryan Talbot writes one for a fellow artist. You also get Mark Verheiden showing a script for his own superpowered hero The American, The Men In Black creator Lowell Cunningham writing a new concept, Watchmen editor Barbara Randall Kesel writing an all-ages short story, and Professor R. Alan Brooks showing a brief tale from his Burning Metronome series. Most of the scripts are introduced by the writers, like Ryan Estrada telling how he and Kim Hyun Sook co-wrote the script for a chapter of their acclaimed Banned Book Club, or Shaenon Garrity explaining how she uses both script and thumbnails when writing her The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor graphic novel, and more. A great tool for aspiring comics writers and artists alike!

Salimba - she's a jungle mystery woman, with powers and allure and a nose for adventure. 25 years ago animation writer Steve Perry and Concrete creator Paul Chadwick teamed up for a series of tales wherein this dark-skinned adventurer faces down immortal pirates, bizarre monsters, and zombie apes. Now these tales are completely collected, with a bonus - Baby, an all-new Salimba prose story. Perry's last story before his untimely demise is a dark tale of addiction and murder and the child who is left behind.

Jeremiah the Friar is a monk filled with joy, awe... and a certain awkward lack of incompetence.Frank Evers is best known for his work on the Op-Ed page of the New York Daily News and other newspapers, which brought him the National Cartoonist Society's Editorial Cartoon Award in 1979. But getting away from the topic of the day, he drew these fun-filled chronicles of this spirited man of the cloth.

In Monsignor, Margaret Carroll, Jerry McCue, and Al Kilgore focus in on a little prelate with a big spirit and very human struggles. Set in the same Catholic community as Convent Belles and Saints Alive , these cartoons may delight your heart.. Al Kilgore would later go on to win the National Cartoonists Society>s Silver T-Square and Special Features Awards. Look for his book Little Gabriel, the cartoon adventures of an impish angel, also available from About Comics.

Little Gabriel is the an impish little angel with a devilish sense of humor. These silent cartoon adventures should bring a smile to your face and joy to your heart. Al Kilgore, winner of the National Cartoonists Society's Silver T-Square and Special Features Awards, is best known for his work on the Bullwinkle comic strip. His art can also be seen in the About Comics books Convent Belles, Saints Alive and Monsignor.

As the cartoonist for the Catholic magazine Extension in the 1950s, Joe Lane specialized in chronicling the lighter side of men and women in faith. With this collection, he shows his delightful take on the lives of nuns, as the sisters apply their sacred calling to the day-to-day world. NOTE: Joe Lane occasionally used caricatures of Africans and Native Americans which, while common at the time, are understood as inappropriate today. These are included in this edition in order to make it a proper reprint. For those who would prefer to avoid such cartoons, we recommend the collection Nun Funnies .

In 1962, during the first adult coloring book craze, Khrushchev's Top Secret Coloring Book hit the shelves to take a stab at the Russian leader. Written by Gene Shalit and drawn by EC Comics and Mad Magazine superstar Jack Davis, it paints a hilarious picture of world politics of the day.

With Convent Belles, Margaret Carroll, Jerry McCue, and Al Kilgore launched a series of original cartoon books about the Roman Catholic community around St. John's Parochial School - the nuns, the priests, the schoolchildren, and more. Look also for Saints Alive , and Monsignor, or get all three books in one affordable volume by ordering Kilgore's Catholics. Al Kilgore, best known for his work on Rocky & Bullwinkle, would later go on to win the National Cartoonists Society's Silver T-Square and Special Features Awards.

Genuine letters sent from the kids of the early 1960s to JFK show you the dreams, obsessions, and general attitude of America's children. New York Times best-selling book creator worked with the White House mail department to find letters that were delightful, intriguing, and representative of the thousands of letters that would stream in each week. The book is augmented by dozens of delightful illustrations by Louis Darling, better know for this work on Beverly Cleary's Beezus & Ramona books. Out of print for half a century, this book is now back in this paperback edition

Sam was born in slavery, Annabelle was born in wealth.

They live on the same plantation, but in very different worlds. Now the Civil War is upending life as they've known it: Each of their fathers is pulled into the conflict, and armies from North and South have their eyes on Twin Oaks. As Sam faces life-threatening danger, he makes courageous choices. Annabelle casts off the rules she grew up with and steps in to take charge. The characters are fictional, but the realities of war blaze to life in this story of heroism, adventure, and unexpected friendship. The real struggles of the War are shown, and some of its major figures, like Clara Barton and Abraham Lincoln, put in appearances.

The book includes an afterword detailing the real people and historical events involved.

(Previously released as Fight for Freedom.)

Remember the nuns from your youth? Some were sweet, some were harsh, all were special in their own way. Here are cartoons about the sweet ones, those who are living the sparse life with joy. These classic 1950s cartoons will bring a smile with their humor and another with the memories they evoke. NOTE: Joe Lane occasionally used caricatures of Africans and Native Americans which, while common at the time, are understood as inappropriate today. These are included in this edition in order to make it a proper reprint. For those who would prefer to avoid such cartoons, we recommend the collection Nun Funnies .