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"What I Like About Shanghai" exhibition taking place at Shanghai's Ma Li Modern Art Museum
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CONSTABLE KHANG'S MYSTERIES OF OLD SHANGHAI: THE CAT WITH THE TELLTALE TATTOO!
Constable MeeMee Khang of the late 1920s & 1930s Shanghai Flower and Bird Market Constabulary has three days to find out where this strange kitten tattooed with the Chinese characters for murder came from. Three days to find the fortune teller who sold him and three days to determine ...
CONSTABLE KHANG AND THE BLACK ANGEL
Constable Khang's search for the mysterious magician is complicated when in the midst of his inquiries a number of the Shanghai's more notorious notables suddenly turn up missing. Khang is then drawn into the thick of what may be a related matter centering on the ...
Pat Hobby
F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic Pat Hobby series in graphic novel form! Exciting first issue! "The Homes of the Stars"! (Not Available In the US!) Pat Hobby may be an alcoholic, morally challenged, bitter, broken down “49 year-old” script writer whose best days ...
BOKU & BOB BOOK I: THE EMERGENCE!
Boku and Bob Book I: “The Emergence!” provides the origin story of Boku and Bob. Bob is a young man not long out of high school passing time working at his uncle’s rundown bio technology incubator. Then one day while cleaning up after an accident ...
EXCELLENT EXCERPTS ILLUSTRATED: ANESTHETIZED AND ON THE TABLE
Select samples of the best from the world’s greatest wordsmiths excerpted, anesthetized, illustrated and set out on your table!
BRENT MACBRIDE'S ONE PAGE PULP
Quick samples of one of life’s guilty pleasures! Two-fisted prose from Brent MacBride, grandson of legendary "Old Shanghai" reporter Brett MacBride of the Constable Khang series.
WORDS & PICTURES PIONEERS
One page tributes to some of the men and women who combined words and pictures in unique and/or wonderful ways!
Soo vs Foo! Who Was the Most Mysterious Most Awesome Magician!
The incredible true story of Chung Ling Soo and Ching Ling Foo! In the golden age of stage magic they were two of the richest and most famous magicians in the world!But one of them was an imposter! Who would win the 1905 London world championship of Chinese ...