It's Life as I See it

It's Life as I See it
Author: Dan Nadel
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1681375613

Originally published by Chicago's Black press, long neglected by mainstream publishing, and now included in a Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago exhibition, these comics showcase some of the finest Black cartoonists. Between the 1940s and 1980s, Chicago’s Black press—from The Chicago Defender to the Negro Digest to self-published pamphlets—was home to some of the best cartoonists in America. Kept out of the pages of white-owned newspapers, Black cartoonists found space to address the joys, the horrors, and the everyday realities of Black life in America. From Jay Jackson’s anti-racist time travel adventure serial Bungleton Green, to Morrie Turner’s radical mixed-race strip Dinky Fellas, to the Afrofuturist comics of Yaoundé Olu and Turtel Onli, to National Book Award–winning novelist Charles Johnson’s blistering and deeply funny gag cartoons, this is work that has for far too long been excluded and overlooked. Also featuring the work of Tom Floyd, Seitu Hayden, Jackie Ormes, and Grass Green, this anthology accompanies the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s exhibition Chicago Comics: 1960 to Now, and is an essential addition to the history of American comics. The book's cover is designed by Kerry James Marshall. Published in conjunction with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, on the occasion of Chicago Comics: 1960s to Now, June 19–October 3, 2021. Curated by Dan Nadel.

It's a Regular Life

It's a Regular Life
Author: Max Brallier
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2015-10-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 039954044X

It’s Christmastime at the Park! Based on the classic Christmas movie spectacular It’s a Wonderful Life, we find everyone’s favorite yeti, Skips, having a tough time this holiday season. Frustrated, he wishes his old life away. When his wish is granted, he is shown how bad off the Park is without him and wishes for everything to return to normal. He awakens to find everything as he left it with a very special holiday surprise from all his Regular Show friends who love him dearly.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

It's Kind of a Funny Story
Author: Ned Vizzini
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2010-09-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1423141083

Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job—Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does. That's when things start to get crazy. At his new school, Craig realizes that he isn't brilliant compared to the other kids; he's just average, and maybe not even that. He soon sees his once-perfect future crumbling away.

Bungleton Green and The Mystic Commandos

Bungleton Green and The Mystic Commandos
Author: Jay Jackson
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2022-12-13
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1681376652

Meet Bungleton Green—an anti-racist time traveler and the first-ever Black superhero, created more than a decade before characters such as Black Panther and Falcon. In 1942, almost a year after America entered the Second World War, Jay Jackson—a former railroad worker and sign painter, now working as a cartoonist and illustrator for the legendary Black newspaper the Chicago Defender—did something unexpected. He took the Defender’s stale and long-running gag strip Bungleton Green and remade it into a gripping, anti-racist science-fiction adventure comic. He teamed the bum- bling Green with a crew of Black teens called the Mystic Commandos, and together they battled the enemies of America and racial equality in the past, present, and future. Nazis, segregationist senators, Benedict Arnold, fifth columnists, eighteenth- century American slave traders, evil scientists, and a nation of racist Green Men all faced off against the Mystic Commandos and Green, who in the strip’s run would be transformed by Jackson into the first-ever Black superhero. Never before collected or republished, Jackson’s stories are packed with jaw-dropping twists and breathtaking action, and present a radical vision of a brighter American future.

It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken

It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken
Author: Seth
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2020-08-28
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1770464476

In his first graphic novel, It's a Good Life, if You Don't Weaken–one of the best-selling D+Q titles ever--Seth pays homage to the wit and sophistication of the old-fashioned magazine cartoon. While trying to understand his dissatisfaction with the present, Seth discovers the life and work of Kalo, a forgotten New Yorker cartoonist from the 1940s. But his obsession blinds him to the needs of his lover and the quiet desperation of his family. Wry self-reflection and moody colours characterize Seth's style in this tale about learning lessons from nostalgia. His playful and sophisticated experiment with memoir provoked a furious debate among cartoon historians and archivists about the existence of Kalo, and prompted a Details feature about Seth's "hoax".

It's a Dog's Life

It's a Dog's Life
Author: Susan E. Goodman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2012-07-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1596434481

A whimsically illustrated guide to the inner life of dogs shares lighthearted insights into dog evolution and behavior while profiling common breeds and explaining what a dog experiences while looking at a sunset and smelling the ground.

It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life
Author: Stephen Cox
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2005
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781581824346

Paperback release of 2003 holiday bestseller which offers behind the scenes info on this holiday classic as well as current info on stars from the show.

It's a Puppy's Life

It's a Puppy's Life
Author: Seth Casteel
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2018
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1426330693

"Photographs of puppies with explanations of their daily routine, for young children"--

It's Called Life

It's Called Life
Author: Charlotte Lankard
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2007-09
Genre: Christian life
ISBN: 1602474524

A daring and difficult helicopter rescue took her to the hospital and started her on a journey of new understandings about life. What Lankard teaches us through her experiences is that even in the darkest times, there are gifts that come to us to help us endure. With friends and family to support us and faith to sustain us, even in sorrow and pain we can find comfort if we open our eyes to see it and our hearts to feel it.

The Best We Could Do

The Best We Could Do
Author: Thi Bui
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-03-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1613129300

National bestseller 2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection ALA 2018 Notable Books Selection An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui. This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family’s daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves. At the heart of Bui’s story is a universal struggle: While adjusting to life as a first-time mother, she ultimately discovers what it means to be a parent—the endless sacrifices, the unnoticed gestures, and the depths of unspoken love. Despite how impossible it seems to take on the simultaneous roles of both parent and child, Bui pushes through. With haunting, poetic writing and breathtaking art, she examines the strength of family, the importance of identity, and the meaning of home. In what Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen calls “a book to break your heart and heal it,” The Best We Could Do brings to life Thi Bui’s journey of understanding, and provides inspiration to all of those who search for a better future while longing for a simpler past.