Discover the world of Memory Palaces, Volcano Graffiti, Baseball Slang, Novelty Rap Commercials, and Knee Hole Skirts. Amazing Facts & Beyond collects the comic-strip’s best and most mental adventures. Part John Hodgman, part garage sale Popular Mechanics, Leon Beyond drops knowledge every week in the comics section of the St. Leon Beyond is the know-it-all, relentless-fact-baking brain child of cartoonists Kevin Huizenga and Dan Zettwoch. Read an interview with Vincent Bailly by Peter Howard here. Based on an autobiographical novel by Joseph Joffo and adapted with the author’s input, this true story offers a harrowing but inspiring glimpse of a childhood cut short. Along the way they must adapt to the unfamiliar world beyond their city-and find a way to be true to themselves even as they conceal their identities. The boys travel by train, by ferry, and on foot, facing threats from strangers and receiving help from unexpected quarters.
And if they hope to elude the Nazis, they must never, under any circumstances, admit to being Jewish. Surviving the long journey will take every scrap of ingenuity and courage they can muster.
With the German occupation threatening their family’s safety, the boys’ parents decide Maurice and Joseph must disguise themselves and flee to their older brothers in the free zone. This is the day that will change their lives forever. In 1941 in occupied Paris, brothers Maurice and Joseph play a last game of marbles before running home to their father’s barbershop. Join me here each month as I preview my recommendations for treats in store a couple of months in advance - there’s nothing quite like anticipation! I hope you find one or a few of them here to tickle your fancy. It’s just one of my PG Tips for new titles due in August or soon after.
This is less a coffee-table book, more a coffee table in itself. A cornucopia of previously unreprinted marvels rescued from newsprint limbo fill the pages of Society is Nix, reproduced immaculately in their ‘polychromatic effulgence’ and at the same generous dimensions as they originally appeared around the turn of the 20th century in America’s remarkable Sunday “Funnies” supplements.
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