New Releases by Mark Newgarden

Everything that you need to know about reading, making, and understanding comics can be found in a single Nancy strip by Ernie Bushmiller from August 8, 1959. Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden’s groundbreaking work How to Read Nancy ingeniously isolates the separate building blocks of the language of comics through the deconstruction of a single strip. No other book on comics has taken such a simple yet methodical approach to laying bare how the comics medium really works. No other book of any kind has taken a single work by any artist and minutely (and entertainingly) pulled it apart like this. How to Read Nancy is a completely new approach towards deep-reading art. In addition, How to Read Nancy is a thoroughly researched history of how comics are made, from their creation at the drawing board to their ultimate destination at the bookstore. Textbook, art book, monogram, dissection, How to Read Nancy is a game changer in understanding how the “simplest” drawings grab us and never leave. Perfect for students, academics, scholars, and casual fans.

Un álbum sin palabras que despertará el interés de los lectores de todas las edades gracias a su deslumbrante concepción visual y al dinamismo del relato. Los autores recurren a una estética cercana al cómic para contar las aventuras de Max Guau, un simpático perro que, una noche, se enfrenta a una pandilla de gatos, quienes se han robado su cama. Lo que parece un simple hurto se transforma en una vertiginosa aventura que tiene mucho de sobrenatural y que llevará al protagonista enfrentar insospechados peligros en la casa vecina. Del primero al último cuadro, la historia se desarrolla con admirable ritmo, arrastrando al lector y sorprendiéndolo gracias a los incidentes de la trama y a las vueltas de tuerca del argumento, las cuales van del realismo a lo sobrenatural.

When mischievous ghost cats steal his sleeping cushion, Bow-Wow bravely enters a spooky house to retrieve it.

In this wordless picture book, Bow-Wow the terrier teaches about colors.

Bow-Wow the terrier teaches about each month.

Learn all about sounds with Bow-Wow!

Bow-Wow the terrier chases a pesky cat through a story of opposites as they go up, down, in, out, and every way possible. On board pages.

A wordless picture book about a persistent terrier who follows a bug through his neighborhood.

A dog dreams of many different things, including a bone, five clouds, and nine penguins, in this book that introduces the numbers from one to ten. On board pages.

A dog orders a lunch of bread and cheese in this picture book that introduces patterns.

by Mark Newgarden Cartoonist Mark Newgarden debuted in the first issue of RAW magazine in 1980 and his work subsequently found its way into a variety of high and low profile media. He co-created the '80s pop culture fad Garbage Pail Kids, wrote and drew a weekly syndicated humor feature in the '90s, and created a "Web Premiere Toon" for The Cartoon Network called "B. Happy." Newgarden is currently developing an unconventional Christmas special for The Cartoon Network. Newgarden's comics are hilarious, alarming, and masterful uses of the medium, alternating between old-time gags and avant-garde storytelling, often on the same page without missing a comedic beat. Those syndicated comics will make up the bulk of this book, the balance drawing on Newgarden's long form stories from various anthologies, including the much-lauded "Love's Savage Fury." This book is a full picture of the artist, his influences, and his many other careers. Newgarden remains a great link to the past while moving ever further into the future. We All Die Alone is an uproariously funny and fascinating book that will appeal to comics readers, pop culture buffs, and any appreciator of the graphic arts.

Sharply designed, jam-packed with illustrations, and written with a touch of irony, this book celebrates such novelty items as joy buzzers, the whoopee cushion, and fake worms.