Monte Beauchamp Livres

From the 1920s to the 1950s, a small but useful advertising gimmick spread like wildfire into the purses, pockets, and kitchen drawers of millions of Americans. The give-away matchbook was one of the most pervasive means ever found of putting promotional images into the hands of the public. Small and disposable, matchbooks were not only a highly successful marketing tool for a wide variety of products, they were also the repositories for a wealth of anonymous design creativity. Fantasies of ocean travel, bathing beauties, regal leisure, and tropical locales adorned the covers, as did hand-lettered typography, stylized illustration, and eye-catching color. This red-hot celebration brings the ubiquitous matchbook's art to life in all its pulp panache and visual zing.

Lulu Blackenshoe's world is grey and dreary and nature has all but ceased to exist, until one day, when she finds a magic bottle that contains a map to the Peppermint Islands. Now, she has a way to save the last remaining wild animals of the world, but along the way she'll have to defeat the Peppermint Man and the Capitalist machine that caused the desolation to begin with.

"...an arresting terror!" -- Rick Kogan; Chicago Tribune MagazineWith an ADDITIONAL 32 pages, superior printing, and a secure HARDCOVERbinding, The Devil of Christmas picks up where the softcover edition of The Devil in Design leaves off.In the early Christmas traditions of Europe, the Krampus was St. Nicholas' dark servant–a hairy, horned, supernatural beast whose pointed ears and long slithering tongue gave misbehavers the creeps! Whereas St. Nicholas would reward children who'd been good all year, those that had behaved badly were visited by the Krampus.This NEW and IMPROVED edition includes an introduction, a historical survey of the character, and over 180 lavish pre-World War 1 Krampus postcards. The Devil of Christmas is a lush, hair-raising collection guaranteed to give even Stephen King the creeps!

A first-of-its-kind collection; award-winning illustrators celebrate the lives of the visionary artists who created the world of comic art.

A high-quality, 1000-piece puzzle measuring 20 x 29". This devilishly difficult puzzle features one of the most popular historical Krampus images. LIMITED EDITION: 1000 puzzles. In European folklore, the Krampus is St. Nikolaus's dark servant--a hairy, horned, supernatural beast whose pointed ears and long, slithering tongue gave misbehavers the creeps! The Krampus terrorized the bad until they promised to be good. Some he spanked. Others he whipped. And some he shackled, stuffed into his large wooden basket and carted away, then hurled into the flames of Hell! Such scenarios were delineated by skilled and imaginative Old World craftsmen, printed on penny postcards and disseminated throughout Europe.

A diverse collection of rare, century-old artwork. Thanks to appearances on A Krampus Carol, The Supernatural, GRIMM, and NCIS, Europe's hairy, horned folklore figure is becoming an American pop culture phenomenon.

BLAB!—the Harvey Award-winning anthology of cutting-edge comics, art, and culture—has returned to its comics roots with a stellar lineup of contributors. Noah Van Sciver depicts the tragic demise of Crime Does Not Pay editor Robert Wood. Ryan Heshka recounts the rise and fall of Superman creators Siegel and Shuster. Sasha Velour portrays the making of film director F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu. Children’s book illustrator Giselle Potter examines Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter’s passion as a naturalist. Illustrated articles include the history of the gorilla and a report on UFOs. All this and much more in Comics and Stories That Will Make You BLAB!