Mike Kennedy - Böcker

The third book in the Toppi Gallery series features the master’s non-sequential, stand-alone illustration work (as opposed to his graphic novel stories featured in The Collected Toppi series). This volume focuses on themes of masculinity and femininity, showcasing images of soldiers and beautiful women from the artist’s fifty-year career in the field of illustration in many newspapers, magazines, and books worldwide. Featuring both black and white and full color works with captions and text about various subjects throughout.

The village's tranquility is once again threatened as a mysterious girl is found floating in the lake, one who has a strange connection to the wild brambles that climb into the sky, and the terrible monsters that are climbing down to terrorize the land! It's now up to Milo and Valia to embrace their innate magical powers to save the land! A beautifully illustrated, family-friendly, magical adventure in the vein of AMULET, THE WIZARD OF OZ, etc. The third of three self-contained story volumes.

The true tale of Irena Sendlerowa, a social worker inthe Warsaw ghetto in the early 1940s, during the early days of Germanoccupation. She is credited for saving the lives of 2500 Jewish children bygradually and quietly smuggling them to safety in small groups. While she iseventually arrested by Gestapo, imprisoned, and tortured for her actions, sherefuses to reveal her network and is condemned to death. She is ultimately savedfrom death by other members of herorganization.This second volume focuses onIrena's activities following her incarceration, and her years long mission tolocate and reunite the rescued children with their families, which led decadeslater to her ultimate recognition. Her attempts to locate each of their naturalparents for reunion were as often heartbreaking as fulfilling. And while most ofthe parents had been gassed in the Holocaust, she made it her mission to helpthose orphaned find new homes.

A dystopic Nordic fantasy world, where spirits of light are the key to life, but seemingly have abandoned the world. Young Nils and his father set out to discover why the ground has grown infertile, heading north where the drought seems worse to find the cause. Far along the way, they find signs of fresh and vibrant life, caretaken by these little light spirits. But before they know it, a large metal creature arrives and attacks the creatures, apparently hunting and gathering them. From out of the woods, a woman attacks the creature, bringing it to its knees… apparently the plant was bait for the spirits, which in turn were bait for the metal creature, which serves the high-tech Cyan Nation. This huntress, named Alba, takes Nils and his father into their tribe, where the battle between the shamanistic people and the Cyan Nation is paramount, a battle over the protection vs exploitation of the light spirits power… Meanwhile, three goddesses watch these events, lamenting the fact that man had abandoned all belief in their power long ago. They watch but do not intervene, despite the fact that the spirits are being harvested en masse by the Cyan Nation, wreaking ruin on the world outside their city. Realizing that this conflict will in one way or another change the very fabric of this world, they slowly begin to intervene… As they continue their travels, Nils has a dream (seeded by one of the goddesses) about the World Tree, Yggdrasil, which is being consumed by a metal plague. He knows he must now find and save the tree, and in the process, save the world. But the high council of the Cyan Nation would have otherwise… Having been separated in their quest, Nils’s father finds himself a guest of the Cyan Prince, where he learns that they do indeed understand the power of the spirits, which they call Ethernum, serving as the power source for their technological advancement. More sinister than that, however, is the fact that they’ve used the Ethernum as a means of near-eternal longevity, having wiped out all competitors to their power and resource long ago. And now, they believe they have unlocked the secrets for using the Ethernum to revive the dead… And for the goddesses, that is a step too far. They intervene, but in the process find one of themselves surprisingly captured by the Cyan royalty… and then killed. The remaining two goddesses are torn by this affront. One vows to wipe mankind off the planet for good, while the other goes to help Nils save the Life Tree. High fantasy adventure combining science-fiction with pseudo-spiritual magic, posing dramatic examinations of man vs nature, life vs death, fact vs faith, and man’s desire to play god.

Based on the Massively Multiplayer Online Shooter video game from Vogster Entertainment, this volume collects chapters drawn by some of the comic industry's hottest superstars, including Nathan Fox, Zach Howard, Sanford Greene, David Williams, Ben Templesmith, Gary Erskine, Howard Chaykin, and Trevor Hairsine, with cover art by Tim Bradstreet.

Static-levitation racing has become the most popular -and dangerous - sport of the future, and down-on-his-luck former front-runnerHugo Broyler is about to find out just how dangerous it can be, on and off thetrack when he takes a transportation gig from a local crimelord. To complicatematters, he suddenly finds himself haunted by the ghost of a former racingrival. Either that or he's going crazy.Thisvolume includes the first full story arc from the hit online series, along withrules for a complete role playing system set within the world of StaticLevitation racing, filled with sci-fi world details and concept illustrationsfrom a wealth of top artists from around the world.

Chipper and Squizzo are a precociouspuppy and squirrel who love to explore new and exciting environments, flyingtheir cardboard box airplane to wondrous worlds full of fascinating animals andcreatures. In each volume of this fun, educational series, they tour adifferent location, encountering the real-world animals found there in beautifulillustration and fun cartoon strip antics. This second volume takes them aroundthe world, to the jungles of South America, Africa, and Asia, where theyencounter tigers, elephants, snakes, andsloths!A fun, lusciouslyillustrated series of wildlife discovery books for children of allages.

Little Tails is a series of young readers graphicnovels created by Eisner Award-nominated illustrator Federico Bertolucci andwriter Frédéric Brrémaud, creators of the world-famous,multi-award winning Love series of silent, wildlife graphic novels. In eachvolume of Little Tails, Chipper and Squizzo set out on a fun, educationaljourney to a different location, encountering the real-world animals found therein beautiful illustration and fun cartoon strip antics. In this new volume, theyvisit a nearby farm and meet a wide variety of new and interesting domestic andwild animals!

The next temporal reboot in the mind-bending, pulpy, eight-part space opera, we meet the newest recruit in the mystery investigation: Officer Leila Sherad of the Art and Antiquities Division. Answers begin to fall into place and questions start to find answers in this sixth chapter in the saga written by the legendary Lewis Trondheim and Emmanuel Guibert and illustrated by Franck Biancarelli!

“Mister Invincible doesn't justfight villains. He shows us why comics delight us.” - Gene Luen Yang viaThe New York TimesBologna RagazziAward Winner 2020A Junior Library GuildSelection 2020Featured in The New YorkTimesBooklist StarredReviewKirkus StarredReviewPublishers Weekly StarredReviewThere's a new superhero in town -- Mr. Invincible!Sure, he wears a mask and cape and helps widows and orphans as anyself-respecting hero would, but he also thwarts the mad scientists and bad guyswith his amazing super-power that makes him the only true comic book hero: hecan reach outside the comic strip panels to affect both space and time! Bybreaking the boundaries of 'comic book physics' he and his companions are ableto do amazing things that are only possible thanks to the magic of comics! Awholly unique and creative twist on conventional comic-book reading experience,this wacky Middle Grade title will put your imagination to thetest!

The continuing adventure of little rich girl Yaya and her street urchin friend Tuduo as they cross war-torn Shanghai in the wake of the Japanese invasion of 1937 in hopes of finding Yaya’s parents. This nine-volume series chronicles their long journey fraught with perils. The children meet all sorts of people, both friendly and wicked, as they travel toward Hong Kong. Yaya and Tuduo learn many growing lessons along the way, not the least of which is to judge a person on their character, not their social or financial status. The gloom of war, its absurd tragedy, gives way to the incredible capacity of youth to overwhelm grim reality.