Humor

Bart Simpson gets brutal with a brilliant and brand-new collection of comics and stories brimming with bitter rivalries, baseball gone bionic, bully bonding, and babysitters gone bad. Bart and Homer find themselves up a creek when they go fishing together. Bart tries to elude haunted detention slip with his name on it. Principal Skinner bribes Bart to keep him on his best behavior, while Nelson Muntz hosts a guide to adult nerds. Bart reveals the secrets to staying home sick, and when he makes the cheerleading squad, shows off his unique brand of school spirit. And to top it all off, Maggie and Moe find themselves mulling over a murder mystery. Bart Simpson is here to soothe the savage beast!

Edward Gorey's first miniature book, The Eclectic Abecedarium is an illustrated adventure through the English alphabet, accompanied by rhyming adventure through the English alphabet, accompanied by rhyming couplets penned by Gorey, who described his creations as "literary nonsense." Inspired by popular moral primers for children, Gorey created an updated version of Isaac Watt's alphabetic adhorisms. Part sweet songs of unseen birds and part cautionary tales, this abecedarium fully lives up to the epithet "eclectic."

This sorry tale of petite Charlotte Sophia's catastrophic, short life is classic Gorey. The poor child is orphaned and treated mercilessly by schoolmates and ruffians alike, and only barely survives--for a time, anyway--by the skin of her baby teeth. Even her doll suffers a grusome end. The little girl's journeiy is perfect fodder for Edward Gorey's brilliant penwork, so detailed and perfectly wrought that it's hard to believe he could master these images at such a small size (the illustrations reproduced in the book ar the same size as his original drawings). The Hapless Child is widely regarded as one of Gorey's best books; happily it is now back in print after an absence of many years, so that we can all enjoy weeping for CHarlotte Sophia again...and again, and again.

The essential companion for anyone celebrating Halloween - Simpsons style!

Now Simpsons fans can trick or treat along with their favourite family with this compendium of tips and features, including how to monster-proof your room, how to tell if your babysitter is a witch, and how all the citizens of Springfield celebrate Halloween. Plus, they'll enjoy three complete issues of Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror comics.

The Simpsons is the 12th-most-watched show among all age groups, and the longest-running animated television serries ever with more than 200 episodes. The highly anticipated Halloween show is The Simpsonsߨighest rated episode each year. Boo!

Through humorous and poignant stories based on the author's childhood as the son of Mexicans living on the United States/Mexico border, "Leave it to Beaner "explores themes of immigration, biculturalism and the inevitable reverse-assimilation of America.

Along with side-stops detailing the history of Chicanos, Mexican-Americans, Mexicanos, Latinos, Hispanics, the border, Mexican -wrestling, La Migra, mass deportations and mucho mucho mas, "Leave it to Beaner" promises to entertain and maybe make you think.

Lalo Alcaraz is a Los Angeles-based political artist who has drawn editorial cartoons for the "L.A. Weekly "since 1992. He is the creator of the first nationally syndicated Latino-themed daily comic strip, "La Cucaracha." Alcaraz illustrated "Latino USA: A Cartoon History," published in 2000 by Harper Collins.

Matt Groening, the creator of television's longest "re"-animated series, The Simpsons, serves up another tantalisingly tasty tome of terror that will rattle your funny bones and leave you screaming with laughter.

The "Treehouse of Horror" Halloween specials continue to be the highest-rated episodes of The Simpsons, and with the raging success of Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror Heebie Jeebie Hullabaloo, get ready for more wacky and whimsical weirdness.

Crazed Christmas trees, tattooed circus freaks, school dances, flying monkeys, intergalactic rebellion, teenage acne, giant cockroaches, and vegetarian chili - from the morbid to the mundane, the cryptkeeper of comedy tells tales of heart-pounding hilarity guaranteed to leave you in stitches.

What I Think Happened, the debut book by comedian Evany Rosen, is really two books: a savvy, no-holds-barred romp through the history of the western world, and a personal "femmoir" by a self-described "failed academic" who recasts historiography from a feminist perspective--albeit an underqualified and overconfident one.

In these wide-ranging comic essays, Rosen explores numerous historical events and personalities that have had a personal impact on her as she attempts to understand why they've been the object of such fascination, from her unnatural obsession with Napoleon, to her misguided understanding of the Royal Family, to her intrigue over America's dumpiest presidents. Rosen's approach to history is to make it personal, which any good historian will tell you is exactly what not to do; but in so doing, and with whimsy and irreverence, she rescues history from the dusty confines of "intellectually aggressive" men and makes it fun again.

What I Think Happened is the first book to be published under a new series called Robin's Egg Books, a series of smart, culturally relevant humor titles on a variety of subjects, edited by comedian and writer Charles Demers.

Evany Rosen is a standup comic, actor, and writer, and a member of the now-defunct Canadian comedy troupe Picnicface. She has appeared at numerous comedy festivals and in films and on television, and as a voiceover actor in animated series such as Mysticons (Nickelodeon), Hotel Transylvania (Disney), and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Cartoon Network).