Box Brown

The bestest Rugrats comics collected in the first of two new volumes! Get ready for more adventures with Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, and Angelica! Hold on to your diapies, babies! Everyone's favorite adventurous tots are back for more adventures from their pint-sized perspective! Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, & Lil have noticed something—they’re being watched. Somehow, their parents can see everything, and there’s no place to hide. A baby’s gotta do what a baby’s gotta do to have fun while avoiding the hidden eyes of their watching parents! Meanwhile, diapers are flying everywhere after Grandpa Lou reads a crazy conspiracy story online that leads Tommy to believe that everyone is being replaced by giant lizard people. It's up to the gang to get to the bottom of it all. Writers Box Brown and Pranas T. Naujokaitis are joined by an acclaimed group of artists, including Lisa DuBois, Jorge Monlongo, Carolyn Nowak, Mattia Di Meo, and many more! The bestest starting place for lifelong Rugrats fans and new readers alike! Collects Rugrats #1–8.

It is, perhaps, the perfect video game. Simple yet addictive, Tetris delivers an irresistible, unending puzzle that has players hooked. Play it long enough and you’ll see those brightly coloured geometric shapes everywhere. You’ll see them in your dreams. Alexey Pajitnov had big ideas about games. In 1984, he created Tetris in his spare time while developing software for the Soviet government. Once this alarmingly addictive game emerged from behind the Iron Curtain, it was an instant hit. Nintendo, Atari, Sega – game developers big and small all wanted Tetris. A bidding war was sparked, followed by clandestine trips to Moscow, backroom deals, innumerable miscommunications and outright theft. New York Times bestselling author Box Brown untangles this complex history and delves deep into the role games play in art, culture and commerce. For the first time and in unparalleled detail, Tetris: The Games People Play tells the true story of the world’s most popular video game.

Tetris is as ubiquitous as blue jeans and as addictive as jelly beans. But did you ever wonder where it came from? Probably not: Most computer programs have fairly undramatic origin stories. Not Tetris. In 1984, Alexey Pajitnov, a computer scientist working for the USSR government, created a fun little game that became a smash hit among the computer literate population of Moscow. Before long, it was discovered by a British software firm. The rest, as they say, is history... But it's a history full of high stakes business shenanigans and some fundamental questions about the nature of play. Box Brown, author of Andre the Giant: Life and Legend, blows open the secret history of the game that saved Nintendo and delves into what makes puzzles and games so irresistible to human beings.

Stories of science fiction and mental exploration from Box Brown, New York Times-bestselling author of Andre the Giant: Life and Legend. Insightful character pieces with a range of topics. Each different story is highlighted with a variety of spot colors throughout. Stories include lizard aliens, New Physics as a new thought form, the adventures of electromages, a quest for the perfect waffle in a wasteland, lost Star Warrior robots, a cult built around social media, and the importance of pizza.

The second volume of Box Brown's anthology series, Number This includes two new stories, "Sk8rh8r" and "Elroy Mirrors' Big Score". In "Sk8rh8r", 33-year-old Rose skateboards drunk to grab some delicious burgers and runs into both Buddy Bob and the police, while in "Elroy Mirrors' Big Score", Elroy tries to build his documentary film career while dealing with his more successful friends, the strange subjects of his films, and his direction in life.

Andre Roussimoff is known as both the lovable giant in The Princess Bride and a heroic pro-wrestling figure. He was a normal guy who'd been dealt an extraordinary hand in life. At his peak, he weighed 500 pounds and stood nearly seven and a half feet tall. But the huge stature that made his fame also signed his death warrant. Box Brown brings his great talents as a cartoonist and biographer to this phenomenal new graphic novel. Drawing from historical records about Andre's life as well as a wealth of anecdotes from his colleagues in the wrestling world, including Hulk Hogan, and his film co-stars (Billy Crystal, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, etc), Brown has created in Andre the Giant, the first substantive biography of one of the twentieth century's most recognizable figures.

The first volume of Box Brown's anthology series, Number This includes two new stories, Kayfabe Quarterly, and The Documentarian. In Kayfabe Quarterly, a young fan's run-in with legendary wrestler Diamond Dick Corduroy causes him to re-examine his life and soon sets him on the path of creating his own 'zine, Kayfabe Quarterly. And in The Documentarian, we get a brief look at the life of a documentary filmmaker.