New Releases by Rick Kirkman

"X-treme parenting contains strips from the books: Briefcase full of Baby blues and Night shift"--Page 4 of cover.

The realities of being parents of a young family are explored in these comics featuring Zoe, a red-headed, pig-tailed girl; Ham, her pin-headed brother; and Wren, the newborn.

Kirkman and Scott don''t just have their fingers on the pulse of the modern middle-class family; they have a grip on its wrist like a mother pulling a three-year-old past a grocery store cookie aisle. Tadpoles in the toilet, backseat border wars, emergency homemade diapers . . . welcome to another year in the life of the never-a-dull-moment McPherson family. While sister Zoe and brother Hammie''s budding sibling rivalry reaches new heights (and volumes), baby Wren is making great strides of her own. With the advent of "the climbing phase" no coffee table, countertop, or bookshelf is too high. For years, the team of Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott have given readers a too-funny-to-be-true, too-real-not-to-be insider''s view of the American dream. They get the details and dilemmas so right, in fact, that it''s a wonder they haven''t been indicted for domestic surveillance.

Back for the second year, this unique family organizer format includes a sheet of fun and helpful reminder stickers and a handy pocket for storing important papers. The top of each monthly page features a different piece of Baby Blues artwork, and each monthly grid has places to list the names and schedules of family members.

Collection of previously published comic strips.

Baby Blues makes life with children seem funny, even when they smear peanut butter on the walls and give the baby a makeover with Mom''s cosmetics. Says writer Jerry Scott, "As long as kids keep having runny noses and wiping them on the drapes, we''re in business." Our Server is Down: Baby Blues Scrapbook #20 captures the perils and pratfalls of raising young children in suburbia. Daryl and Wanda MacPherson are a couple in their mid-thirties struggling to juggle work and three kids with hectic schedules-and maintain their sanity. Zoe, the talkative eldest, is seven and more worldly than ever. Hammie is the newly anointed (by the recent birth of baby Wren) middle child. At age five, he''s a willing student for Zoe and a virtual Velcro board for blame. Wren is the newest addition to the MacPherson clan-so far, all giggles and sunshine . . . with a few clouds on the horizon. Parents worldwide have delighted in this slice-of-life comic since its debut in 1990.

The adventures in parenthood of Darryl and Wanda MacPherson continue, with their depictions of the chaos and absurd humor that goes hand in hand with raising children.

Joies et délices de la vie familiale autour d''un bébé. [SDM].

Imagine three hurricanes converging on one household and you get an idea of what Darryl and Wanda MacPherson experience each delightful day of parenting Zoe, Hammie, and Baby Wren. It''s a perfect storm of flying foodstuffs, off-the-scale emotional outbursts, and enough offspring energy to make veteran storm chasers duck for cover ... and that''s before any little friends come over to play!

Syndicated by King Features, through more than 20 periodicals and nearly 900 newspapers, "Baby Blues" has a daily following of 40 million fans worldwide and the Web site at babyblues.com gets 300,000 hits per month. This is the 18th collection of the popular column.

A collection of cartoons from the "Baby Blues" strip features Wanda and Darryl as they slog their way through parenthood.

The latest collection of "Baby Blues" strips shows the harried parents Darryl and Wanda adding a third little one to the MacPherson household. Illustrations.

Collection of Fairy Tales.

Well on the day you were born, the nurses all gathered ''round. And they gazed in wide wonder, as my face hit the ground. The head nurse looked up, said, "Leave this one prone." She could tell right away that I was Dad to the bone." --Sing to the tune of George Thorogood''s Bad to the Bone If you read the job description in a want ad, you might think long and hard before responding. WANTED: A man willing to change diapers that could nuke the ozone, plop down on all fours and become a horsie at a moment''s notice, arise from a deep sleep for an hour to calm nightmares, and part with a significant chunk of his hard-earned nest egg. There''s only one explanation for why a man such as Baby Blues'' Darryl MacPherson would accept such a challenge . . . because he''s Dad to the Bone. "Now, when I coach your teams, I go out of my mind! Every holler and scream means I''m proud that you''re mine! As the years go by, pretty baby, can''t believe how much you''ve grown! I wanna'' thank you for makin'' me a Dad to the Bone!" Of course, Baby Blues isn''t only about fatherhood. This is a well-rounded family, with mom Wanda becoming more well-rounded every day as she heads into her third pregnancy. This collection of strips from the wildly popular feature Baby Blues, which is enjoyed by millions of parents and kids every day. Over the years, creators Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman have perfected this family-centered strip that presents the joyful moments with the frustrating in a way that is hilarious and heartfelt without being syrupy sweet.

Joies et malices de la vie familiale. [SDM].

Collects comic strips portraying the joys and trials of Wanda and Darryl as they raise their two children, Zoe and Hammie.

A collection of cartoons from the "Baby Blues" strip features Wanda and Darryl as they slog their way through parenthood, plucking chicken nuggets from the dryer and bribing their children with dessert.

La petite Justine est âgée de deux ans et demi, et sa mère attend un nouveau bébé.

This third "Baby Blues" treasury collects the adventure that is parenting forDarryl and Wanda McPherson with full-color Sunday comic strips by Kirkman andScott.

Del guionista creador de ZITS, Jerry Scott, y el ganador de un premio de la National Cartoonist Society, Rick Kirkman, llega una de las sensaciones en el mundo de las tiras humorísticas americanas, BABY BLUES. Con más de 13 tomos publicados en su país de origen, aparece en más de 560 periódicos de todo el mundo y cuenta con un serie de animación producida por Warner Bros.