With over 3,500 entries, arranged by topic, fully indexed and up-to-date for the twenty-first century, here is a bumper new collection of witticisms and wisecracks.
Ever since Mrs Malaprop first took to the stage in 1775 and described a gentleman as 'the very pineapple of politeness', some famous figures have become better known for their slips of the tongue than for anything they said intentionally.
Role Models is a wild and witty self-portrait of John Waters, America's 'Pope of Trash', told through intimate profiles of his favourite personalities - some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some surprisingly middle of the road.
From the Pope of Trash himself, John Waters, Carsick is his hilarious (if not always 100% true) account of hitchhiking fearlessly into the heart of middle America.
When Dionysus the Renegade faked a Sophocles text in 400BC (cunningly inserting the acrostic 'Heraclides is ignorant of letters') to humiliate an academic rival, he paved the way for two millennia of increasingly outlandish literary hoaxers.
#1 New York Times bestseller:A hilarious look at one of the toughest jobs on earth, by a writer "e;with the comic equivalent of perfect pitch"e; (The Boston Globe).
The #1 New York Times bestseller about one woman's doomed quest for self-improvement by a writer "e;blessed with the comic equivalent of perfect pitch"e; (The Boston Globe).
Celebrate Zits' twentieth anniversary with the always spot-on, sometimes chaotic, and often messy comic moments between Jeremy and his befuddled parents.
Celebrate Zits' twentieth anniversary with the always spot-on, sometimes chaotic, and often messy comic moments between Jeremy and his befuddled parents.
Celebrate the friendship between Earl the Jack Russell and Mooch the tuxedo cat, and the bond between pets & their owners, in this comic strip treasury.
New York Times Bestseller: A "e;charming, funny, and pointedly invigorating"e; collection of comic illustrations and inspiring quotes about creativity (Publishers Weekly).
Welcome to Endtown, a community of animal-like mutants and "e;impure"e; humans infected with a mutagenic virus living below Earth's post-apocalyptic surface.
Welcome to Endtown, a community of animal-like mutants and "e;impure"e; humans infected with a mutagenic virus living below Earth's post-apocalyptic surface.
