Box Brown
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"It is, perhaps, the perfect video game. Simple yet addictive, Tetris delivers an irresistible, unending puzzle that has players hooked. Play it long enough and you'll see those brightly colored geometric shapes everywhere. You'll see them in your dreams. Alexey Pajitnov had big ideas about games. In 1984, he created Tetris in his spare time while developing software for the Soviet government. Once Tetris emerged from behind the Iron Curtain, it was...
Author
Series
Rugrats volume 5
Language
English
Description
It's baby verses baby as Angelica and Susie try to outdo each other.
Author
Series
Rugrats volume 6
Language
English
Description
Tommy comes to the horrifying realization that Lizard People are real- and someone he knows could be one of them!
Author
Series
Rugrats volume 4
Language
English
Description
Stu takes the kids to the toy store and becomes embroiled in a fight over a rare toy, leaving the babies free to wander.
Author
Series
Rugrats volume 8
Language
English
Description
Grandpa Lou is determined to turn the babies into an internet sensation. As soon as he can figure out how this camera works...
Author
Series
Rugrats volume 7
Language
English
Description
With solid proof that the lizard people walk among humans-and babies-Tommy struggles with who to trust.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Powered by the advent of television and super-charged by the deregulation era of the 1980s, media companies and toy manufacturers joined forces to dominate the psyches of American children. But what are the consequences when a developing brain is saturated with the same kind of marketing bombardment found in Red Scare propaganda? Brian "Box" Brown's The He-Man Effect shows how corporate manipulation brought muscular, accessory-stuffed action figures...
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Drawing from historical records about Andre's life as well as a wealth of anecdotes from his colleagues in the wrestling world, including Hulk Hogan, and his film co-stars (Billy Crystal, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, etc), Brown has created in Andre the Giant, the first substantive biography of one of the twentieth century's most recognizable figures.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"During the Spanish conquests Cortés introduced hemp farming as part of his violent colonial campaign. In secret, locals began cultivating the plant for consumption. It eventually made its way to the United States through the immigrant labor force where it was shared with black laborers. It doesn't take long for American lawmakers to decry cannabis as the vice of 'inferior races.' Enter an era of propaganda designed to feed a moral panic about the...
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Comedian and performer Andy Kaufman's resume was impressive--a popular role on the beloved sitcom Taxi, a high-profile stand-up career, and a surprisingly successful stint in professional wrestling. Although he was by all accounts a sensitive and thoughtful person, he's ironically best remembered for his various contemptible personas, which were so committed and so convincing that all but his closest family and friends were completely taken in. Why...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the West's collective imagination, Vladimir Putin is a devious cartoon villain, constantly plotting and scheming to destroy his enemies around the globe and in Ukraine. But how did an undistinguished mid-level KGB officer become one of the most powerful leaders in Russian history? And how much of Putin's tough-guy persona is a calculated performance? In Accidental Czar, Andrew S. Weiss, a former White House Russia expert, and Brian "Box" Brown...
Author
Language
English
Description
For the past year, a group of high school students met at a publishing house in San Francisco every Monday night to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, and countless articles. This committee was assisted by a group of students that met in the basement of a robot shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Together, and under the guidance of guest editor Adam Johnson, these high schoolers selected the contents of The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015. The...
15) I feel machine
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In I Feel machine, six award-winning comic book artists explore the strange interplay between humanity and technology. These visionary shoretr fictions, by turns cautionary and celebratory, offer an electrifying glimpse into our collective future.
