Best Selling Books by Roger Langridge

Fred the Clown is fit as a fiddle and looking for love in this ode to silent cinema by an acclaimed cartoonist. This nearly wordless romp from master cartoonist Roger Langridge is the author’s paean to the silent, slapstick comedies of the 1910s and ’20s, spun for a contemporary audience, starring his most popular character. It finds our hero Fred pitching the woo to a lovely equestrian. But with matrimony-minded fathers, boorish beaux, and malicious mad scientists interfering at every opportunity, what’s a clown―and his faithful pig companion―to do? Langridge’s velvety grays evoke the silent films of his patron saint, Buster Keaton (and, in this volume particularly, the latter’s masterpiece, The General). His craft is at a zenith, and captures every screwball twist and turn of the heiress’s and our hero’s romantic roundabout.

Nine-year-old Abigail meets a loveable and sophisticated yeti named Claude who''s escaped from a top-secret goverment facility.

IT WAS A DARK AND FROGGY EVENING! It’s time to cue the music; it’s time to dim the lights! It’s time to get things started as the Muppets return tonight! The show is about to begin at the famous Muppet Theatre, and the regular pre-curtain chaos has the troupe’s stalwart MC, Kermit the Frog, coming apart at the seams. In an attempt to de-stress, he settles down to read a few pages of a favorite old detective novel — only to get kayoed by an errant brick to the bean, leaving him laid out backstage as his co-stars try to coax him back to consciousness. But unbeknownst to them, Kermit has taken up the hard-boiled mantle of his fictional hero to walk the darkened streets of Dreamland, righting wrongs and cracking cases under the concealing cover of night. Flip Minnow, P.I., has no time for song and dance — not if he’s going to solve the baffling mystery of the Snoozing Sleuth! Legendary cartooning talent and Muppets comics veteran ROGER LANGRIDGE bellies up to the drawing table once more for an all-new tale of crime and pun-ishment with The Muppets Noir #1 — featuring clue-filled cover art from both the author and guest artist DECLAN SHALVEY, as well as an appropriately enigmatic DELUXE MYSTERY BLIND BAG! The Blind Bag contains two limited editions of the issue selected randomly from a range of variant covers exclusive to this offering — including a new original cover, colored blanks, and more! Please Note: The number of Blind Bags is limited, and allocations may occur.

In the late 1980s, long before his work on the Eisner and Harvey-nominated Fred the Clown, Roger Langridge worked with his brother Andrew on a comic called Art d''Ecco. In these early stories, done mainly (but seldom entirely) for laughs, one can see the beginnings of the formal playfulness that would characterize the later work of both Langridge brothers, and of the elaborate layering of subtle and not-so-subtle nods and references to the world of music, film and literature. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.9px Arial; color: #424242}

A stand alone Goon tale by acclaimed creative team of writer Roger Langridge (Fred the Clown, The Muppets) and artist Mike Norton (Battle Pug, Revival). When a brewing war between Mother Brewster''s clan and Kaiser Fishhelm''s Old Peculiar distillery breaks out, it looks to undermine the stability of the local unions. And the Goon can''t have that, can he? Witches... Fish Men... and Beer! It''s a calamitous mixture as the Goon and Franky try to keep the Brewer''s Union in line and chaos at bay.

From the Eisner and Harvey award-winning creator of SNARKED and writer of the acclaimed comic series D4VE comes this humorous, absurd adventure tale about a family on the run. Daggum Criminy''s peaceful life is suddenly interrupted as pirates invade his island, casting Criminy''s family out as refugees into the wild unknown in search of a new home. Soon, the Criminys find themselves hopping from one strange locale to another, each with their own bizarre environment, people, and challenges; putting Daggum and fam in constant peril as they search for a new peaceful place to call home.

Wait… is Darkwing actually huge, or have the JUSTICE DUCKS just become tiny? What’s going on here?!? Why, it’s more madcap alien-based tomfoolery, presented by the inimitable team of writer ROGER LANGRIDGE and artist CARLO LAURO (Darkwing Duck) — ably assisted by cover artists MIRKA ANDOLFO, ROGER LANGRIDGE, FRANCESCO TOMASELLI, and TRISH FORSTNER!

Abigail and Claude''s adventure comes to an end in this oversized finale! The world''s most lovable Yeti is one boat ride away from making it back home to the Himalayas, but before they can say their goodbyes, Abigail and Claude will have to find a way to outsmart everything the Shadow Men throw their way.

When Ming the Merciless launched an all-out assault on planet Earth, the colorful band of heroes known as Kings Watch led the resistance... and triumphed! Now, across the cosmos, in the dark corners of our very planet, and even throughout time, Earth''s defenders continue the mission, separate and yet together in spirit! Flash Gordon, Dale Arden, Dr. Zarkov, Mandrake the Magician, Jungle Jim, Lothar (in his identity as the new Phantom), and Prince Valiant join friends new and old to face the combined forces of Ming and the all-new, all-deadly Cobra!

Foes of evil! Enemies of injustice! To the mighty heroes of the JUSTICE DUCKS, all bad guys are a total bummer and must be taken down — even if said bad-o’s are from OUTER SPACE! In this thrilling maiden issue: Flying saucers descend from the skies, to (maybe) wreak (possible) havoc upon the (mostly) innocent citizens of St. Canard! All that’s stopping these aggressive alien agitators is STEGMUTT, GIZMODUCK, NEPTUNIA, MORGANA, and (most important, in his opinion) DARKWING DUCK! Written by the Eisner and Harvey Award-winning ROGER LANGRIDGE and illustrated by celebrated Darkwing Duck artist CARLO LAURO, this latest chapter in the ongoing saga of St. Canard’s web-footed wonders is surely destined for greatness — just like DD himself!

Collects Marvel Adventures Spider-Man (2005) #49-52. The all-new, all-ages, all-action fun continues! It''s wall-to-wall mayhem in the Mighty Marvel Manner with four original tales of everybody''s favorite teenage wall-crawler! Featuring the new Sinister Six and Paste Pot Pete!

With supernatural occurences taking over 1930s London and an overflowing caseload, Sherlock Holmes recruits three detectives-in-training to take the case.

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT! While Kermit the Frog continues his concussed convalescence on The Muppet Theatre’s green room couch, his alter ego Flip Minnow, P.I., is about to catch a break in his missing persons case beyond the wall of sleep. A mysterious package delivered to his office turns out to be his quarry’s diary, which gives the amphibious investigator a new set of leads to run down — including a revelatory encounter inside a skee-ball speakeasy! Veteran comics puppeteer ROGER LANGRIDGE leads readers deeper into The Muppets’ collective unconscious in The Muppets Noir #3 — featuring intriguingly analytical covers from both the author and guest artists JAE LEE & JUNE CHUNG!

Wait… is Darkwing actually huge, or have the JUSTICE DUCKS just become tiny? What’s going on here?!? Why, it’s more madcap alien-based tomfoolery, presented by the inimitable team of writer ROGER LANGRIDGE and artist CARLO LAURO (Darkwing Duck) — ably assisted by cover artists MIRKA ANDOLFO, ROGER LANGRIDGE, FRANCESCO TOMASELLI, and TRISH FORSTNER!

Strange robots have flooded the streets of St. Canard, and only THE JUSTICE DUCKS can save the day! But even the combined might of STEGMUTT, GIZMODUCK, NEPTUNIA, MORGANA, and (of course) DARKWING DUCK may not be enough to stop the robots’ master: THE BOTHERER, who wants to transform innocent people into horrible stone creatures that will enable him to take over the city — and eventually the world! Delineated by Eisner and Harvey Award-winning author ROGER LANGRIDGE and definitive Darkwing Duck artist CARLO LAURO, Justice Ducks #2 also features arresting cover art from MIRKA ANDOLFO, ROGER LANGRIDGE, FRANCESCO TOMASELLI, and TRISH FORSTNER!

Abigail is a nine-year-old girl with a huge imagination who moves to a small town where she''s the new kid at school, struggling to make friends. All that changes when she meets a Yeti named Claude who has escaped a top-secret government facility. Abigail and Claude become the best of friends, but to make sure he can truly be free from the "Shadow Men" chasing him, they must go on an adventure to find Claude''s real home!

IT’S TIME TO MEET THE SUSPECTS! After succumbing to the consciousness-clobbering effects of a brick to the noggin, Kermit the Frog finds himself walking a new beat in Dreamland as private investigator Flip Minnow. His first assignment? Tracking down Meringue Crustworth, the missing daughter of pie magnate Dolores Crustworth. Seems like a straightforward enough case, but there’s something about the situation that isn’t sitting well with Flip — something that goes far beyond his inexplicably deep-seated aversion to pies. Joining forces with the friendly beat cop Officer O’Bear, the green P.I. starts running down leads, which eventually steer the pair into an oddly unappetizing pie shop that leaves Flip’s phobias untriggered. But what the flatfoot and the gumshoe discover inside turns out to be even stranger than a narcoleptic frog in a trench coat! Master storyteller ROGER LANGRIDGE continues his heart-felt return to the Muppet realm with The Muppets Noir #2 — featuring sharply shadowed covers from both the author and guest artists JAE LEE & JUNE CHUNG!