The line will launch with three books in spring 2008 and will be distributed by Diamond Book Distributors. Titles include Benny and Penny by Geoffrey Hayes, Silly Lilly by Agnes Rosenstiehl and Otto's Orange Day by Frank Cammuso and Jay Lynch. Mouly is providing all the financing and expects to publish six books in 2008, including a Toon Book by Art Spiegelman (called Jack and the Box) that will be part of the second set of releases.

In this third and final trade paperback collection, Van Lente and Dunlavey return once more to their comics précis of philosophy with a survey of Greek philosophers, a Law and Order–style trial of God with Kant as his "epistemological attorney," and a hilariously spot-on parody of Peanuts ("You're a Good Man, John Stuart Mill"), before closing with a "lightning round" that runs a gauntlet of 11 philosophers, ranging from Lao-Tzu to David Hume, in 32 pages. As with most of the series, it negotiates the turbid waters of philosophical theory not only with ease but laugh-out-loud irreverence. This is no dumbed down My First Philosophy book for grade schoolers; although it gilds the theories of philosophers like Epictetus the Stoic with word balloons and cartoon slapstick, it never shies away from complex ideas, even if that means occasional lapses into philosophical jargon ("in a synthetical cognition, you augment an intuition with a conception"). Van Lente and Dunlavey engage some of philosophy's most recondite notions with wit, clarity and brilliant accessibility, but intelligence is always presumed and demanded. Only the most precocious of children need apply. (Nov.)

The last three decades the comics industry has had its own in-house satirist: Fred Hembeck, whose familiar self-caricature has appeared in fanzines, in Marvel and DC comics, and now on the Web. In February 2008 Image will publish an immense retrospective of Hembeck's work, The Nearly Complete Essential Hembeck Archives Omnibus, collecting his humorous takes on over 40 years of comic book history

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