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Jim!: Six True Stories about One Great Artist: James Marshall
Jerrold Connors
Dial Books
2025
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A picture book biography of the late, great James Marshall--illustrator of Miss Nelson is Missing and the George and Martha series--and as clever, delightful, and daring as Jim himself Author and illustrator James Marshall let kids in on the joke. He knew little kids were smart, and he didn't talk down to them in his stories. He was right--kids loved his picture books. Decades after his death, the characters he illustrated--Miss Nelson, Viola Swamp, George and Martha, Goldilocks, Fox and His Friends--are still beloved. James Marshall should be at least as famous as his characters, and now he is, in his own picture book biography. Created in an irreverent style inspired by James Marshall's own art and storytelling, this delightful biography, featuring James as a fox, celebrates in both form and content what made James--"Jim" to his friends--so talented, funny, and special, and what has made his tales last. This time, Jim is the main character. "Funny and filled with insights.]" --Booklist, starred review "A better bio of Jim could hardly exist." --Kirkus, starred review "Poignantly, comically human." --Publishers Weekly
Jim Anthony-Super-Detective Volume 4
Frank Byrns; Erwin K. Roberts; Mark Justice
Airship 27
2013
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THE ACTION CONTINUESWITH THE SUPER-DETECTIVEHe's half Comanche, half Irish and ALL AMERICAN Jim Anthony the Super Detective returns in his fourth volume of brand new adventures from Airship 27 Productions. Traveling the globe, Anthony battles all manner of twisted villainy in four new tales and his challenges are herculean. Writers Erwin K. Roberts, Joel Jenkins, Frank Byrns and Mark Justice have whipped up a quartet of high adventure stories that are the hallmark of the Super Detective. From Mexico, where he encounters a Nazi spy ring, to the streets of Manhattan where he hunts down a brutal serial killer, Jim Anthony proves once again why he is one of the most exciting and fun heroes ever created in the golden age of American pulps.This volume, the fourth in an on-going series, features interior illustrations by Michael Neno and a dazzling cover by Eric Meador, with book designs by Rob Davis. Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to continue the exploits of the one and only, Jim Anthony - Super Detective.AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTIONS - Pulp Fiction For a New Generation
Repeatedly in the recent past, we have heard of a 'Jim Comes to Jo'Burg' mythology in the South African context. The author has deconstructed this myth, reversing it into a 'Jim is Tired of Jo'Burg' scenario, telling the story through his protagonist, Jim (Kgabalatsana Monare) aka "TM", who has come to Johannesburg from his rural village of Dinokana in the Western Transvaal in search of 'gold'. But, as time goes by, he gets sucked into andultimately gets frustrated by the challenges of city life, to which a rural boy is unaccustomed. He tries to make a living as a miner and makes friends with the Indian tailors in downtown Johannesburg. He leaves his place of employment on the mine to live in the township of Alexandra - a mass urban slum of the city of 'gold' where he commingles with life in a township. He meets his 'to-be-lifetime lover' Nancy Mabheka, who falls deeply in love with him - unfortunately for her, for when Kgabalatsana realises that he will not find the 'gold' that he came to the city of Johannesburg for, he decides to goback home to his village, leaving her behind. Nancy then follows him to a life that is enigmatic to her. Reminiscent of Peter Abrahams' Mine Boy, Jim is Tired of Jo'Burg exposes the reader to the challenges of urban and rural life in the South Africa of the time. Through pathos, joviality, the author takes us down the memory lane of life in the townships of South Africa in the 60s and 70s, and the choice that its people had to take - to be an urbanite or ruralite.
Jim Crow is the figure that has long represented America’s imperfect union. When the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage in blackface as Jim Crow, during the 1830s, a ragged and charismatic trickster began channeling black folklore through American popular culture. This compact edition of the earliest Jim Crow plays and songs presents essential performances that assembled backtalk, banter, masquerade, and dance into the diagnostic American style. Quite contrary to Jim Crow’s reputation—which is to say, the term’s later meaning—these early acts undermine both racism and slavery. They celebrate an irresistibly attractive blackness in a young Republic that had failed to come together until Americans agreed to disagree over Jim Crow’s meaning.As they permeated American popular culture, these distinctive themes formed a template which anticipated minstrel shows, vaudeville, ragtime, jazz, early talking film, and rock ‘n’ roll. They all show whites using rogue blackness to rehearse their mutual disaffection and uneven exclusion.
Compiled from the literary estate of the singer who brought a wildly lyrical poetry of the damned to the world of rock 'n' roll. Includes unpublished poems, drawings, photos, and a candid self-interview.
Following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. government rounded up more than one hundred thousand Japanese Americans and sent them to internment camps. One of those internees was Charles Kikuchi. In thousands of diary pages, he documented his experiences in the camps, his resettlement in Chicago and drafting into the Army on the eve of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and his postwar life as a social worker in New York City. Kikuchi's diaries bear witness to a watershed era in American race relations, and expose both the promise and the hypocrisy of American democracy. Jim and Jap Crow follows Kikuchi's personal odyssey among fellow Japanese American intellectuals, immigrant activists, Chicago School social scientists, everyday people on Chicago's South Side, and psychologically scarred veterans in the hospitals of New York. The book chronicles a remarkable moment in America's history in which interracial alliances challenged the limits of the elusive democratic ideal, and in which the nation was forced to choose between civil liberty and the fearful politics of racial hysteria. It was an era of world war and the atomic bomb, desegregation in the military but Jim and Jap Crow elsewhere in America, and a hopeful progressivism that gave way to Cold War paranoia. Jim and Jap Crow looks at Kikuchi's life and diaries as a lens through which to observe the possibilities, failures, and key conversations in a dynamic multiracial America.
Jim Anthony: Super-Detective Volume Two: "The Hunters"
Micah S. Harris; Joshua Reynolds
Airship 27
2014
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Classic pulp hero, Jim Anthony; Super Detective returns in a brand new novel in two parts that pits him against all kinds of strange and legendary beasts. And in both cases he is accompanied by fanatical hunter, Russian Count Zaroff from the classic short story, The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell. In part one, Death In Yellow, by Joshua Reynolds, Anthony and Zaroff square off against a group of savage Tibetan Yetis loose in the steel canyons of Manhattan. Why these creatures are here and who is behind their murderous rampage is a classic mystery that challenges the one and only Super Detective. Then in part two, On The Periphery of Legend, by Micah S. Harris, Anthony reluctantly accompanies the mad Russian on an expedition to a lost island in the South Pacific where dinosaurs still roam. But that's not the most dangerous game in those time-lost jungles. Here are two amazing tales woven together into a classic pulp adventure that will test the mettle of our hero who is half-Irish, half-Comanche and All-American Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to present JIM ANTHONY - SUPER DETECTIVE Vol. Two - THE HUNTERS Features interior illustrations by Pedro Cruz and a stunning cover by Chris Sears.
A pioneering professional's comprehensive insight to the previously confidential world of precision rocker arm design and application to Over-Head Valve competition engines. Written by the founder of the Patented MID-LIFT roller rocker arm geometry for internal combustion engines, and color Illustrated, Jim Miller explains the critical elements of valve train design and system integration with in-depth tech and terminology defined for pro and novice alike.Jim Miller has over 40 years in the high performance racing world as an engine parts developer and manufacturer for all forms of professional and amateur racing, who holds four valve-train patents. He is a pilot; an avid aviation enthusiast; and a hands-on domestic and international manufacturing engineer. He has been a published technical automotive, truck and motorcycle editor, writer and photographer since 1975. MID-LIFT.com has provided valuable insight and products to racers and engine builders from around the world, since 2003, where it continues today. (Retail: $87.50 U.S.)
Jim Geoghan, Drama Desk Award nominee (Only Kidding), Joseph Jefferson Award nominee (Light Sensitive), LA Ovation Award winner (Two Gentlemen of Corona), two time Eugene O'Neill semi-finalist and two time Emmy nominee shares the heart and comedy of New York, the city and people that helped shape him.
What if Jack wasn't the only one to climb the beanstalk? Raymond Briggs brings a new generation to an old tale with humor, math, and imagination. After discovering a beanstalk growing outside of his window one morning, Jim decides to do what any person in a similar situation would do he climbs it. At the top he finds the unexpected: a castle and a giant in need of a friend. Children and adults alike will enjoy this fresh take on a classic story. In what could be called a sure read to success, Raymond Briggs projects a proven favorite into the new generation . . . It is a gigantic delight. The New York Times A look at what might have happened if there had been a second trip up the beanstalk . . . Magical. Publishers Weekly A sprightly sequel . . . Silly and engaging with humorous illustrations. The Bulletin of the Center for Children s Books"
Jim Crace is one of the most imaginative of contemporary novelists. The author of nine novels, he has received great public and intellectual acclaim across the UK, Europe, Australia and the United States. He was awarded the National Book Critics’ Circle Fiction prize (USA) for Being Dead in 2000.Philip Tew's study is the first extended critical examination of Crace's oeuvre and is based on extensive interviews with the novelist, including discussions of his work from his first worldwide bestseller Continent (1986) up to The Pesthouse (2007).Designed especially both for undergraduates of contemporary fiction, and for those who simply enjoy reading the author, Jim Crace is an excellent addition to the Contemporary British Novelists series. Tew's treatment of themes, contexts and narrative strategies illuminates the literary and critical contexts within which Crace operates, situating him as one of the most adventurous and challenging of Britain’s twenty-first century authors.