Art Spiegelman

Mark Beyer

Cartoons depict the strange adventures experienced by Jordan and Amy after they lose their jobs

Agony

Follows Amy and Jordan as they endure such anxiety-producing trials as occult sacrifices, suicide, rats, aliens, and ex-husbands.

Amy + Jordan

Mark Beyer's inimitable self-taught style-mixing off-kilter imagery and boldly geometric compositions-has been featured in Art Spiegelman's RAWand on MTV's Liquid Television, but Agonyis its most essential expression. Originally published in 1987, this East Village Candideis an eccentric, grimly hilarious delight. Amy and Jordan are just like us- hoping for the best, even when things go from bad to worse. They are devoured by fish, beheaded by ghosts, menaced by bears, and hunted by the cops, but still they struggle on, bickering and reconciling, scraping together the rent and trying to find a decent movie. The perfect solace for anxious modern minds, courtesy of one of the great innovators of American comics. Now if only Amy's skin would grow back...

Richard Bentley has power over women; and they over him. His bookshop holds power in its stories. Then one day, a Heath-on-the-Wold woman wants her own power. What is Penelope White willing to do to get such power? This is the story of THE VILLAGE WIT. American Richard Bentley settles in rural England, looking for the contented life of a bookshop keeper and some fun with the local women. Heath-on-the-Wold seems the ideal place to get lost in work and forget the woman who fell out his life with the affliction of "marital boredom." Bentley hires Peggy White, a mid-forties townswoman who seems his match in sass and intellect. Soon, the rules of attraction open a new chapter in their lives. Who wants power? Who holds the power? THE VILLAGE WIT follows Richard and Peggy’s often humorous and sometimes dark odyssey through village life, love’s fall, sexual politics, and that place where memory and modern love-power-passion intersect. In the tradition of Iris Murdoch, Richard Ford, Margaret Atwood, and Norman Rush, THE VILLAGE WIT explores the effects of loss and the shadows found in passion's blood-red corners.

The Village Wit

Recounts the events related to the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission and how the crew and mission control handled the in-flight crisis.

Apollo 13

Crisis in Space

Mark Beyer, Pooo

Offers information on the life of Heinrich Mèuller, the chief of the Gestapo, and his role in World War II.

Tim Floreen

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