David Lloyd, Author Clarkson N Potter Publishers $13.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-517-56513-1
In a crooked house, Gammer Gurton repairs her servant Hodge's trousers, while her cat Gibb eyes the milk tin. Gurton chases the cat; Hodge falls and loses the needle. Enter Diccon the Bedlam. While the others search for the needle, he appropriates...
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David Lloyd, Author Lippincott Williams & Wilkins $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-397-32274-9
A child, Tim, learns to name his surroundings in this collaboration. At first, he calls all animals ``duck,'' and Granny corrects him in vain. Finally she shows him a duck, and Tim echoes her words. Next, having heard Tim refer to a tractor, a bus...
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David Lloyd, Author, Charlotte Hard, Illustrator Candlewick Press (MA) $13.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0755-5
As a prefatory note puts it, this compact volume is ""as much a game as a story."" The premiseDthere isn't really a plotDis that Molly the dog has been taken to the park by her owner, Polly, on one ""lovely happy sunny summer day"" for what quickly...
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David Lloyd, Author, Penny Dale, Illustrator, Penny Dale, Photographer HarperCollins Publishers $2.5 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-443107-1
A stopwatch from Grandma prompts Tom to run his life with precision: he dashes home in three minutes and 32 seconds; he eats a snack in two minutes and six seconds; he's in and out of the bathtub in one minute and 43 seconds; and he stands on his...
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David Lloyd, Author, Clive Scruton, Illustrator Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $11.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-688-07268-1
Cat and dog don't see eye to eye. While cat walks ""pitter-pat'' down the garden, ``tip-toe along'' the wall and ``tall-tail'' between the bottles, dog runs ``snip-snap'' around the corner, between the bottles and down the alley. The showdown comes...
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Jamie Delano, David Lloyd, Richard Piers Rayner, Mark Buckingham, Bryan Talbot. DC/Vertigo, $19.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-4012-3302-0
Several tales of surreal horror tinged with magic and social commentary are reprinted in this collection of early issues from writer Delano’s original run on the Hellblazer series. John Constantine, a magician most accustomed to the seedier sides of
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