This edition of The Grog Log is NOT SPIRAL BOUND. Tiki bar mixology is a lost art--but the Grog Log rescues it. A twenty-page introduction traces the history of Polynesian Pop, then teaches you everything you need to know about how to make the Grog Log's eighty tropical drink recipies. Many of these recipies have never before been published anywhere--including vintage lost recipies by Don the Beachcomber, Trader Vic, and long-gone Polynesian restaurants from the island of Manhattan to the islands of Hawaii. Profusely illustrated with vintage tiki menu graphics from the '50 and '60s, with cover art by famed Exotica artist Bosko. Review SIPS - Trader Vic Drank Here By WILLIAM GRIMES As John Glenn was orbiting the earth for the first time, his fellow Americans were deep into the long-lived craze known as tiki. This gaudy life-style package -- a blend of Polynesian kitsch, fake island food and lethal rum drinks -- began in the late 1930's and early 40's with Los Angeles restaurants like Don the Beachcomber and Trader Vic's, and gradually spread to the suburban patio before fizzling out in the early 1970's. It's back, of course. Jeff Berry and Annene Kaye, serious students of tiki, have compiled a serious tiki cocktail book, Beachbum Berry's Grog Log. In 96 spiral-bound pages adorned with tiki illustrations, the authors have ranged far and wide to gather classic Polynesian fakes, like the Fog Cutter from Trader Vic's, the Missionary's Downfall from Don the Beachcomber and the Sidewinder's Fang from the Lanai Restaurant in San Mateo, Calif. They have even managed to unearth Manhattan tiki cocktails, like the Hawaiian Room, served at the old Hotel Lexington in the 1940's, and the Headhunter, served at the Hawaii Kai in the 1960's. The authors have also come up with their own tiki-inspired originals, like Hell in the Pacific (151-proof Demerara rum, lime juice, maraschino liqueur and grenadine), and the Waikikian (light Puerto Rican Rum, dark Jamaican rum, lemon juice, curaao and orgeat syrup). It's no longer possible to eat Tonga Tabu Native Drum Steak, which was a featured menu item at the now-defunct Islander in Beverly Hills (from the ovens of the ancient goddess of Bora Bora, Pele, Mistress of Flame), but you can shake up a Shark's Tooth or a Shrunken Skull. As Mr. Berry and Ms. Kaye see it, they are giving the country the perfect drink book for the age of malaise. If we're going to feel like zombies, they write in their preface, we may as well be drinking them. END -- Publisher Comments About the Author Jeff Berry is a learned fan of tropical drinks and is perhaps the foremost authority on the subject. He is also a screenwriter and filmaker.

The global Tiki Drink revival is in full swing. But without Beachbum Berry's Grog Log and Intoxica!, there'd be nothing to drink. These two groundbreaking books revealed the top-secret, never-before-published, lost exotic drink recipes from Tiki's original midcentury heyday. Author Jeff Berry has unearthed a lot more recipes since his first two books, and picked up a lot more drink lore too. He's spilling it all in Beachbum Berry Remixed, a completely revised and updated anthology of the Grog Log and Intoxica!, featuring 40 newly discovered, previously unpublished vintage Tiki drink recipes from the 1930s-1960s, 38 of the best new recipes from today's Tiki revival, gathered especially for Remixed from the world's top mixologists and cocktail writers, expanded drink history and lore, incorporating newly discovered information about the origins of the Mai Tai, Zombie, Suffering bastard, and other legendary Tiki mysteries.

The new book by the Author of The Grog Log, Intoxica and Taboo Table. Beach Bum Berry as he is better known is America s leading authority on tropical drinks and polynesian pop-culture. In this all new book, Berry not only offers up tantilizing new drink recipes, but tells stories about some of the most famous figures of their time. The Bum applies the same dogged research to the untold stories of the people behind the drinks. Stories culled from over 100 interviews with those who actually created the mid-century Tiki scene -- people as colorful as the drinks they invented, or served, or simply drank. People like... Leon Lontoc, the Don The Beachcomber's waiter who served Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando by night, and acted in their movies by day...; Henry Riddle, the Malibu Seacomber bartender who fed items about his famous customers to infamous gossip columnist Louella Parsons, till the day Howard Hughes found him out...; and Duke Kamanamoku, whose manager turned him from Olympic champion into reluctant restaurateur.

THIS EDITION OF TABOO TABLE IS NOT SPIRAL BOUND. Beachbum Berry uncovers the forgotten secret food recipes from Polynesian restaurants of days gone by. Beachbum Berry's Taboo Table is a cookbook done in a style similar to the author's two drink recipe books, Beachbum Berry's Grog Log and Beachbum Berry's Intoxica. Taboo Table features famous lost and exotic recipes (most ironically created in the USA) for appetizers, entrees and desserts. There is also a fascinating and informative history of tiki cuisine from the first Polynesian settlers to the last remaining Polynesian restaurants. Vintage menu art as well as new, tiki-inspired artwork dot every page, making Taboo Table a must-have for people looking for a nostalgic trip into a lost part of exotica. By Midwest Book Review Beachbum Berry's Taboo Table: Tiki Cuisine From Polynesian Restaurants Of Yore is a unique collection of South Sea themed vintage recipes that is enhanced with an informed and informative history of tiki cuisine from the first Polynesian setters to the last remaining Polynesian restaurants. From Crab Rangoon; Shrimp Luau; Chicken of the Gods; and Javanese Lamb Sate; to Shellfish Polynesian; Pitcairn Salad; Mai Tai Pie; and Molokai Mule, this compendium of dishes and drinks is a welcome and recommended, spiral bound and celebratory addition to any multi-cultural kitchen cookbook collection.

A mysterious talking raven pays a visit to a man who is distraught from the loss of his lover. The man, aching over the death of his dear Lenore, is upset and distressed by the bird who repeats one word;

Nevermore.

Steeped in stylized, but dark prose and written in an almost musical style Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven is a bleak, mesmerizing journey through one man's depression and madness. Illustrated by Gustave Dor , the master woodcut artist gives the poem the rich but despondent feel which perfectly accompanies this classic poem.

A reproduction of an 1884 version of an illustrated edition of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. Illustrated by Gustave Dor the art in the original books was produced in woodcuts. This edition digitally alters and cleans up the images for digital printing.

A mysterious talking raven pays a visit to a man who is distraught from the loss of his lover. The man, aching over the death of his dear Lenore, is upset and distressed by the bird who repeats one word;

Nevermore.

Steeped in stylized, but dark prose and written in an almost musical style Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven is a bleak, mesmerizing journey through one man's depression and madness. Illustrated by Gustave Doré, the master woodcut artist gives the poem the rich but despondent feel which perfectly accompanies this classic poem.

A reproduction of an 1884 version of an illustrated edition of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. Illustrated by Gustave Doré the art in the original books was produced in woodcuts. This edition digitally alters and cleans up the images for digital printing.

An anthology of comics stories by a variety of creators published by SLG Publishing. Contributers include Andi Watson, Jef Bambas, Alex J Cox, Jaime Smart, Derf, Stephen Emond and Justin Sane, just to name a few. Created to help fund the publishers relocation to a new home, all of the contributors to the book donated their work to support their publisher. Here is the complete list of contributors. Running A Successful Publishing Company by Tommy Kovac Booze Banter by Karl Christian Krumpholz A Complex World by Kevin Atkinson and Chris Reilly Dr. DeBunko by Chris Wisnia Skeleton Key: Four Walls by Andi Watson Gone Today Here Tomorrow by Allen Gladfelter 30 Miles of Crazy by Karl Christian Krumpholz Something Stupid This Way Comes by Jef Bambas In Which Young Raina Learns A Lesson by Raina Telgemeier Stupid! by Stephen Coughlin Doctor Beerbottle Gives Bad Advice by Alex J. Cox Too Stupid To Die by Dave Roman The Water Children By Charles Soule and Allen Gladfelter Too Lumpy To Live, Too Stupid to Die! by Jaime Smart The World At Large by Allen Gladfelter ...Too Tough to Die!... by Derf The Box by Jef Bambas Too Pants To Die by Ian Carney and Woodrow Phoenix Emo Boy: The Dog by Stephen Emond Under Repairs by Justin Sane Too Stupid To Quit, Too Mean To Die by Aaron Alexovich

Greetings, potential buyer Do you like failing, miserably? Well, good news Because now there's a book that's been made just for you It's called The Cartoon Guidebook To Absolute Failure and it's the bee's knees of anti-help fun Written by Erik Craddock, and Illustrated by Logan Faerber, this series of guidebooks will help you, the reader, with your every failure need. Welcome to the first-ever printed volume of The Cartoon Guidebook to Absolute Failure This sixty-four page giant collects the first two digital issues, and is jam-packed with all kinds of useful information Like fending off vampires, stopping a grizzly bear attack, slaying a dragon, going back in time, escaping a black hole, being a ninja, thwarting a super villain, and even mowing your own lawn Because with this book, if you can think it, then you can fail it, guaranteed

The Saga of Model A continues as Model A meets more of the aggressive Model B's. The ensuing battle changes our hero's path both figuratively and literally, but perhaps not for the better. If you love Robots and movies like Wall-E, then you will love Model A.

This is the story of a Rasputin-like cat who seems to have an escape for every near-death situation it encounters. Surviving hanging, burning and falling off a roof, what gets it in the end should be obvious. Written and illustrated by Charles Bennett, this Victorian era children's book was originally published in 1860 and is re-printed here to help preserve and introduce new generations to the work of a truly gifted cartoonist.

• The black-clad club-goers are out for a night of drinking, dancing and drugs. However, others also lurk in the night, dark creatures that are not the glamorous things others wish they were. Lord Byron, power and Vincent Price worshiper, craves the attention of his peers, but soon finds the attention of something far more dark and insidious.

• When Californian, Katharine Washington, comes to England to work on a newspaper she's expecting more than the small and troubled Wheatstone Mercury. Here she enters the world of office politics, the bottom line, personal and professional strife and lost hamsters. Will it be enough to lure her away from the bright lights and opportunities of home? From the Eisner nominated creator of Skeleton Key and Breakfast After Noon, this is a new edition, in a smaller format with a new cover by Andi Watson.

In his first work since The Plane Story, Kevin Sacco brings us a wordless Civil Rights-era tale of a young boy with a complicated family life who accompanies his family's domestic - Josephine - from his Upper West Side comforts to her neighborhood haunts in Harlem. This journey subtly imbues the boy with a world view as full of blacks, whites and grays as the story's art. At the heart of this narrative is the bond the boy shares with Josephine - until a sinister plot twist casts a dark shadow on their relationship.

Dan Terrell loses his job to a computer in a near-future world where unemployment is skyrocketing. Ever-present surveillance throws his daughter Olivia into a spiraling addiction to attention. As new technologies relentlessly arrive, the whole family struggles to adapt.

Written by Ted Kupper and Joe Perry, co-hosts of the Review The Future podcast, Let Go features a view of the world which is neither utopian nor dystopian, but a fully-realized world of emerging technologies and the struggle to adapt and cope.

CREATOR BIOS

TED KUPPER is a writer who resides in Los Angeles and was raised in Connecticut. He graduated from the University of Southern California in 2004. His first screenplay made the semi-finals of the Nicholl Fellowship in 2004. He attended the Nantucket Screenwriters Colony in 2006. He has written for major Hollywood studios and for the USA television show Mr. Robot. Ted is co-host of the Review the Future podcast.

JON PERRY is a writer and game designer. He grew up in Los Angeles. Jon co-created the indie gaming classic ETERNAL DAUGHTER shortly after high school and graduated from the University of Southern California in 2004. His card game TIME BARONS was published by Wizkids in October of 2017. Jon is co-host of the Review the Future podcast and is currently working on UFO 50, a collection of 50 retro video games.

CECILIA LATELLA was born and lives in Italy. She has been working as a professional artist since 2011, producing comics in a variety of genres and collaborating with several indie publishers. She drew The Endling for Mark Waid's digital platform Thrillbent.com. She also works as storyboard artist and art director for animated feature films and advertisement. In 2010 she was selected by Craig Thompson for a graphic novels masterclass at ACA in Florida. In March 2014 she was featured in CBR's Month of Women in Comics. She also writes her own comics.

I fell in love with Let Go because their take on a family reconciling technology in the future clung to my subconscious for months after reading. That doesn't happen often.

Sina Grace

Iceman, Self-Obsessed

The team behind the excellent podcast, Review the Future, have taken the enormously important subject of technological unemployment and built a highly engaging graphic novel around it. Science fiction is rarely strong on both characters and the impact of technology, but this book manages that. Definitely worth reading if you are at all interested in the economic singularity.

Calum Chace

Pandora's Brain, Surviving AI: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence

A compelling rollercoaster of a graphic novel, filled with fascinating insights into the future of work, social media, artificial intelligence, virtual reality and lifespan extension, all wrapped up in a fast-paced narrative about a family trying to make sense of the future. What starts as a seemingly simple story about a man losing his job, ends up as a captivating meditation on the social consequences of accelerating change. Anyone with an interest in the future should read this.

John Danaher

Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications, The Threat of Algocracy

Grosses B tes & Petites B tes means Big Beasts and Little Beats. Created, written and illustrated in 1911 by noted wooden toy designer and cartoonist Andre Helle, Grosses B tes & Petites B tes was intent on being a children's book that taught young people about animals. Perhaps this book was supposed to be read to children by their parents.

While Helle's modern style of art was influential and attractive the content of the book itself has, over time, proven to be not as useful. Much of what Helle wrote was based on assumptions and then conventional wisdom that has since then proven to be incorrect. Some of the imagery itself reflects the times in the early 20th century and has some very subtle stereotypes.

The art itself is worth preserving and this being the only known English translation of Helle's work is in itself noteworthy.

So while Grosses Betes is not the educational, fun children's book it was originally intended to be, it is an beautiful look back at outdated thinking combined with reproductions of a truly modern artist.

In 2015 artist Kevin Sacco returned to New York City after a period of living in New Jersey. The author of such acclaimed graphic novels as The Pane Story, Joesphine and White Night, re-discovered the wonders, mircales and majesties of the city he had once known as home and to which he was happy to return.

Wandering his hometown Sacco captured the rhytms, feel and the sense of wonder that met him at every corner and every park. The drawings in this book reflect on the life he shares with his fellow New Yorkers and captures the essence of the New York state of mind.

If you wished you had someone like Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm in comics, then Mr. Butterchips is for you. - Shean Mohammed, Graphic Policy

Since 2016, the titular maniacal monkey has delivered installments of ill-tempered observations skewering right-wing derangement. From the Deep State alarmists to the MAGA idolaters, no intolerant consortium is safe from Mr. Butterchips The salty simian continues to toil away in his customer service position while raging against the dying light in the monthly online literary magazine Drunk Monkeys.

This collection from SLG Publishing assembles all 45 previously published comics for the first time along with an all-new trippy adventure through San Francisco which you won't find anywhere else



• Pets! When we're not watching, do they live secret, adventurous lives? Of course they do! When disaster strikes Sky City, and the town's elected leaders can't cope, their own house pets boldly rocket into action -- as the Jet Pack Pets! Princess is the Mayor's pampered pooch and leader of the Jet Pack Pets, Bix is the Police Captain's cocky cat, and Rocky is the Fire Chief's wise, tough-skinned turtle. For the first time ever, Slave Labor brings you a collection of the very first Jet Pack Pets stories.

• Fat Chunk is a collaborative comic featuring a collection of different artists, each contributing work based on a theme. We find artists from all over the world, based in any disciplines, from well-known comic names to fresh-new webcomic talent, from influential street artists to custom toy designers, and throw them together to make one hefty and exciting comic book.

• Edited by Bear and Ubu Bubu creator Jamie Smart, Fat Chunk is a collaborative comic featuring a collection of different artists, each contributing work based on a theme. This volume focuses on those brain-munching, flesh-eating misfits, Zombies!