Jill Thompson

This oversized second volume in the SHOCK anthology series continues to push boundaries and mix genres, allowing today's top creative talent of both comics and prose to craft tales of the fantastic, the horrific, and the bizarre. This handsome hardcover features the creative talents of Goosebumps creator R. L. Stine, Garth Ennis, Cullen Bunn, Russ Braun, Marguerite Bennet, Juan Doe, Jill Thompson, Sam Kieth, Aaron Douglas, Cliff Richards, Jim Starlin, Larry Stroman, Jamal Igle, Ray Fawkes, Joe Pruett, Kevin J. Anderson, Steve Rasnic Tem, Andrei Bressan, Tony Harris, Francesco Francavilla, Darko Macan, Don Handsfield, Phil Hester, Supernatural show runner Andrew Dabb, and more! Cover art by Timothy Bradstreet! allowing today's top creative talent of both comics and prose to craft tales of the fantastic, the horrific, and the bizarre. This handsome hardcover features the creative talents of Goosebumps creator R. L. Stine, Garth Ennis, Cullen Bunn, Russ Braun, Marguerite Bennet, Juan Doe, Jill Thompson, Sam Kieth, Aaron Douglas, Cliff Richards, Jim Starlin, Larry Stroman, Jamal Igle, Ray Fawkes, Joe Pruett, Kevin J. Anderson, Steve Rasnic Tem, Andrei Bressan, Tony Harris, Francesco Francavilla, Darko Macan, Don Handsfield, Phil Hester, Supernatural show runner Andrew Dabb, and more! Cover art by Timothy Bradstreet!

Child and Youth Care Interviewing and Counselling is a practical text designed to help students learn essential interviewing and counselling skills through a practical action-oriented approach and scenarios situated in common professional CYC settings such as group homes, treatment centres, or outreach services. This invaluable text features examples, reflection questions, role-play exercises, and case studies that demonstrate how counselling skills are used outside of the typical one-hour counselling session, impacting the daily life of children and youth in their lifespaces. Students will develop essential skills within the field with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and anti-oppression. Child and Youth Care Interviewing and Counselling is an essential must-read resource for Child and Youth Care, Social Work, and Human Services programs at colleges and universities in Canada and the United States.

"This book deserves a prime place in every graphic novel collection." —Booklist (starred review) Revisit the iconic, bestselling, eccentic fairy-witch from start to finish in this deluxe compendium that also includes new Scary Godmother stories! Get on the nostalgia bus and journey back to the Frightside to revisit your Scary Godmother and her friends Mr. Pettibone, Bug-A-Boo, Hannah, Orson, Max and Ruby the Vampires, Harry the Werewolf and more! Just in time for Halloween, this compendium includes all of your favorite stories as well as a sneak peek into life and brand new adventures at the Scary Godmother’s house!

Get ready for a manga makeover of the Sandman mythos, based on Neil Gaiman's Season of Mists storyline and featuring appearances by members of the Endless, the Sandman's uniquely dysfunctional family! Set during the legendary Season of Mists Sandman storyline, Death: At Death's Door reveals what Death and her sisters are up to when a tired Lucifer closed up hell, leaving its nastiest denizens free to vacate the premises. Unfortunately for Death, those suddenly homeless souls are drawn to her like moths to a flame, and they end up in her living room! Little sisters Delirium and Despair decide to throw a party for the dead which quickly gets out of control. It's up to Dream's older sister Death to figure out how to save the day and the afterlife--not to mention the carpet. Will the power of the ankh prevail? Written and illustrated by Eisner Award-winning artist Jill Thompson (The Sandman: Brief Lives, Scary Godmother) and printed in black-and-white with gray tones, this manga-style story is replete with family drama, strong interpersonal relationships, dramatic pacing, symbolism, and a cast of alluring characters with a flair for fashion.

From the pages of The Sandman #40 comes award-winning author/artist Jill Thompson s adorable versions of the Endless family in two grand adventures! In Delirium s Party: A Little Endless Storybook, Delirium decides to throw her sister Despair a party. Can the merriest member of the Endless succeed in cheering up her gloomy sibling? And in the follow-up tale, The Little Endless Storybook, Delirium has gone missing! Now her puppy and protector, Barnabas, must travel to the strange realms of each of the Endless to see if any of her siblings have seen their sister. This set collects Delirium s Party: A Little Endless Storybook and The Little Endless Storybook.

Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland are no different than most boys. They love adventure, games, and spending time outdoors. They’re curious about girls, curious about life, and particularly curious when it comes to mysteries. You see, Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland happen to be two of the best detectives in England. Note that we didn’t say living in England. That’s because Edwin and Charles aren’t living in England. In fact, they’re not living at all. Collects The Dead Boy Detectives #1-12, Sandman Presents: Dead Boy Detectives #1-4, The Sandman #25, The Children's Crusade #1-2, Ghosts#1, The Witching Hour #1, Time Warp #1, Doom Patrol Annual #2, and Swamp Thing Annual #7.

This volume picks up where the last left off in Morpheus ongoing saga as he travels through the dreaming. This book collects The Sandman #38-56 as well as tales from Vertigo Preview #1. Lose yourself in Gaiman s fantastic worlds and continue the fantasy with The Sandman Book 3.

Older and more powerful than the gods themselves, the Endless are a dysfunctional family of cosmic beings that have ruled over the realms of dream, desire, despair, destiny, destruction, death, and delirium since the beginning of time. But three hundred years ago, one of the mythical beings gave up his duties and left his realm, never to be seen again. Now on a mission to find their missing sibling, Delirium and older brother Dream encounter immortal humans and various deities as they try to locate the prodigal Destruction. But as their adventure draws Dream into a final, tragic confrontation with his son Orpheus, the eternal being learns the true meaning of fate and consequences. Collects The Sandman #41-49.

This six-time Eisner Award-winning comic book series blending fantasy and humor features the adventures of paranormal pets investigating the horrors of their suburban community. This volume collects the comic-book series Beasts of Burden issues #1-4, the short stories from the Dark Horse Book of Hauntings, the Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft, the Dark Horse Book of the Dead, and the Dark Horse Book of Monsters, "Stray," "Unfamiliar," "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie," and "A Dog and His Boy," published by Dark Horse Comics. Black magic, demonic frogs, and zombie roadkill are just a few of the problems plaguing this seemingly sleepy little town. Beneath the quiet streets a rat cabal plots vengeance, while in the local cemetery the dead leave their graves. With the human residents unaware of the supernatural danger, it's up to a determined crew of dogs (and one cat) to keep their community safe. Lives will be lost, and bonds forged as the beasts of Burden Hill battle against an unknown evil rooted within their town. Award-winning comics creators Evan Dorkin (Milk & Cheese) and Jill Thompson (Scary Godmother) come together to share the lives of some unlikely heroes. "For pet lovers and enthusiasts of supernatural mysteries, the series is an absolute must. . . The surprise factor within this series is not the suspense or horror, but rather the emotional resonance that the writing and illustrations create. . . Beasts of Burden is one of the comic book highlights of 2009."--USA Today

Tämä ainutlaatuinen ja omaperäinen tulkinta Ihmenaisen alkuperästä esittelee uudenlaisen prinsessa Dianan. Jill Thompsonin kirjoittamassa ja kuvittamassa tarinassa pilalle hemmoteltu nuori kuninkaallinen tekee kauhean teon, jonka hyvittääkseen hänen on pakko kasvaa sankarin mittoihin. Palkitun tekijän maalattu taide herättää myyttien sankarittaret henkiin ainutlaatuisella herkkyydellä.

Magic Trixie doesn't understand why no one will take her seriously! First, she's not allowed to do anything fun, while her baby sister gets away with everything, and then she needs to come up with a trick that's really special to impress her friends. Luckily Trixie has the best plan ever...