Krazy Kat! Popeye! Flash Gordon! Beetle Bailey! Blondie! Prince Valiant! Hagar the Horrible! Barney Google & Snuffy Smith! Baby Blues! Mutt & Jeff! Zits! Juliet Jones! Buz Sawyer! Steve Canyon! Bizarro! Hi & Lois! Maggie & Jiggs! Johnny Hazard! There are simply too many to list because King Features has had a more illustrious & long-lasting history than any newspaper syndicate even as it continues to lead the way into the digital age & beyond This book is a centennial birthday bash hosted by Dean Mullaney Bruce Canwell & Brian Walker with contributions by Brendan Burford Lucy Shelton Caswell Jared Gardner Ron Goulart Jeffrey Lindenblatt Carl Linich Paul Tumey & Germund von Wowern More than just comics it&s a celebration of the profound impact that King Features has had on popular culture!by Dean Mullaney Bruce Canwell Brian Walker ...

King Features has had a more illustrious & long-lasting history than any newspaper syndicate even as it leads the way into the digital age & beyond Krazy Kat! Popeye! Flash Gordon! Beetle Bailey! Blondie! Prince Valiant! Hagar the Horrible! Barney Google & Snuffy Smith! Baby Blues! Mutt & Jeff! Zits! Juliet Jones! Buz Sawyer! Steve Canyon! Bizarro! Hi & Lois! Maggie & Jiggs! Johnny Hazard! There are simply too many to list! This book is a centennial birthday bash hosted by Dean Mullaney Bruce Canwell & Brian Walker with contributions by Brendan Burford Lucy Shelton Caswell Jared Gardner Ron Goulart Jeffrey Lindenblatt Carl Linich Paul Tumey & Germund von Wowern More than just comics it&s a celebration of the profound impact that King Features has had on popular culture! From the earliest days when William Randolph Hearst first added cartoons to his newspapers comic strips have had a profound impact on popular culture With the consolidation of Hearst&s various distribution channels in November 1915 King Features was born A century later the world&s largest syndicate leads the way in the 21st Century & beyond NOMINATED FOR TWO 2016 EISNER AWARDS BEST COMICS-RELATED BOOK & BEST PUBLICATION DESIGN ...

Leave the neutral monsters to me! From King of Glory comes a series of characters as adorable Qset figures The line-up



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New City New Rules New Monsters Same Fight To be the King! There&s always something happening in the city that never sleeps Maybe it&s the lights maybe it&s the energy or maybe it&s the giant monsters trying to demolish the place! King of New York is a standalone game from designer Richard Garfield that keeps the core ideas of King of Tokyo while introducing new ways to play As in Ko T your goal is to be the first monster to collect 20 victory points (VPs) or to be the last monster standing On your turn you roll six dice up to three times then carry out the actions on those dice Claws cause damage to other monsters hearts heal damage to yourself & energy is stored up so that you can purchase power cards that provide unique effects not available to anyone else What&s new in King of New York is that you can now try to become a star in the big city; more specifically you can achieve " Fame" which nets you VPs but superstar status is fleeting so enjoy your time in the spotlight The game board for King of New York is larger than in Ko T with each monster occupying a district in the city & everyone trying to shine in Manhattan When you attack you can displace a monster in another district whether to escape military forces or to find new smashing opportunities Yes smashing because you can now destroy buildings & get bonuses for doing so but the more destruction you cause the more intense the military response The monsters from King of New York can be used in Ko T & vice versa but the power cards are specific to this game Players 2-6 Ages 10 Playing Time 60 Minutes ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Organised crime kingpin Frank White (Christopher Walken) is released from prison & immediately sets about eliminating the competition in his South Bronx fiefdom However despite the brutality of his campaign to reclaim his empire White uses all his ill-gotten gains to fund the construction of a new hospital in the area A violent thriller from & Bad Lieutenant& director Abel Ferrara ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A man&s house is his castle so the saying goes & it definitely holds true for Queens postal worker Doug Heffernan (Kevin James EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND) who treasures his home his wife Carrie (Leah Remini FIRED UP) & his 70-inch television Doug&s crown is challenged however when Carrie&s eccentric father Arthur (Jerry Stiller SEINFELD) moves in with hilarious results as these disparate individuals attempt to live together in peace This collection presents every episode of the show&s eighth series ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play KING OF QUEENS follows the workaday lives of married couple Doug (Kevin James) & Carrie (Leah Remini) who share their home with Carrie&s oddball father Arthur (Jerry Stiller) Many humourous complications arise from this less than ideal living arrangement; Doug--a deliveryman for the fictitious IPS--finds his privacy encroached upon but doesn&t really have much say in the matter & tries somewhat ham-fistedly to keep the peace When his boorish behaviour lands him in hot water with the missus he seeks out the counsel of his wise buddies who are always on hand to offer advice to their hapless friend This release contains every episode from Series 2 ...

A man&s house is his castle so the saying goes & it definitely holds true for Queens postal worker Doug Heffernan (Kevin James EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND) who treasures his home his wife Carrie (Leah Remini FIRED UP) & his 70-inch television Doug&s crown is challenged however when Carrie&s eccentric father Arthur (Jerry Stiller SEINFELD) moves in with hilarious results as these disparate individuals attempt to live together in peace In series five Carrie briefly finds religion Doug gets jealous of her &work spouse& & Arthur fights an addiction to nasal spray ...

I lay very still with all my senses telling me that I had gone mad The plague? Nobody's had the plague for centuries Nathan Field a talented young actor arrives at the newly rebuilt Globe Theatre in London to play Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream As rehearsals begin eerie echoes of the past begin to haunt Nat & he falls sick with a mysterious sickness When he wakes Nat finds himself in 1599 an actor at the original Globe
- & his co-star is none other than the King of Shadows himself William Shakespeare Nat's new life is full of excitement danger & the passionate friendship that he has longed for since the tragic death of his parents But why has he been sent to the past
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A classic & heartfelt war story from War Horse author & former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo Escaping from China as the Japanese invade Ashley & Uncle Sung embark on a perilous journey across the Himalayas Then Ashley finds himself alone in the hostile mountains battling for his life He is just about to give up all hope when he has a mysterious & terrifying encounter Author of Private Peaceful & Friend or Foe Michael Morpurgo again demonstrates why he is considered to be the master storyteller with another of his beautifully crafted war stories In the tradition of Goodnight Mr Tom Carrie's War & The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas King of the Cloud Forests is a novel that takes children to the heart of a tumultuous period in history-- ---- Former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo needs no introduction He is one of the most successful children's authors in the country loved by children teachers & parents alike Michael has written more than forty books for children including the global hit War Horse which was made into a Hollywood film by Steven Spielberg in 2011 Several of his other stories have been adapted for screen & stage including My Friend Walter Why the Whales Came & Kensuke's Kingdom Michael has won the Whitbread Award the Smarties Award the Circle of Gold Award the Children's Book Award & has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times He started the charity Farms for City Children in 1976 with his wife Clare aimed at relieving the poverty of experience many young children feel in inner city & urban areas Michael is also a patron of over a dozen other charities Living in Devon listening to Mozart & working with children have provided Michael with the ideas & incentive to write his stories He spends half his life mucking out sheds with the children feeding sheep or milking cows; the other half he spends dreaming up & writing stories for children For me the greater part of writing is daydreaming dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out
- the writing down of it I always find hard But I love finishing it then holding the book in my hand & sharing my dream with my readers Michael received an OBE in December 2006 for his services to literature
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