Joe Ollmann
Author
Pub. Date
c2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Caleb is a middle-aged painter with a non-starter career. He also happens to be the only child of one of the world's most famous cartoonists, Jimmi Wyatt. Known for the internationally beloved father and son comic Sonny Side Up, Jimmi made millions drawing saccharine family stories while neglecting his own son. Now sober, Caleb is haunted by his wasted past and struggling to take responsibility for his present before it's too late. His always patient...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the early twentieth century, travel writing represented the desire for the expanding bourgeoisie to experience the exotic cultures of the world past their immediate surroundings. Journalist William Buehler Seabrook was emblematic of this trend--participating in voodoo ceremonies, riding camels cross the Sahara desert, communing with cannibals and most notably, popularizing the term "zombie" in the West. A string of his bestselling books show an...
Author
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"Joe Ollmann has been called one of the best writers of short stories working in comics today and this omnibus is the definitive collection of those stories. Ollmann won the Doug Wright Award in 2007 for This will all end in tears, most of which is contained here. The best stories from Chewing on tinfoil are included, as well as two new stories, written just for this book. Ollmann blushes as he hand-letters such effusive praise in the third-person..."...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First softcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Mid-Life is the story of a 40-year-old man, John, who becomes a father again with his much younger second wife, which results in a slow, painful attack by flowered baby bags and front-facing baby carriers on his former virility and self-identity. John always believed that age is a state of mind; however, his adult daughters, baby son, energetic wife, stressful job, house full of cats, and flabby body--complete with bloated stomach and sagging bosom--all...
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