Penguin Books Australia

'Freedom of speech is the freedom to offend and that means the freedom to offend anyone.'

— Bill Leak

A new collection of the art and observations of cartoonist, painter and all-round contrarian—the incomparable Bill Leak.

'It's dog eat dog in this rat race.'
'We'll burn that bridge when we come to it.'
'I hope to come first or second, or at least win it.'

The information superhighway brings more text to our door than ever before.  It's just that most of it gets mangled along the way.

Twenty years ago, Harold Scruby's Manglish became an instant bestseller.  This version expands on the consummate mangles of...

Alan Moir is one of Australia's wittiest and most insightful political cartoonists, and in this superb new collection, Are We Nearly There Yet?, he dissects the new Labor era in his own inimitable way.

From Kevin Rudd's extraordinary election victory over John Howard in 2007 to the election of 2010, Moir tells the story of this change from conservative governments to, well, slightly less conservative...

2010 has been a year of reversals. At the start Kevin Rudd, the conscience of decent folk everywhere, was still enjoying an unprecedented run of popularity in the polls. Meanwhile, the Liberals were fast becoming a reactionary rabble who, after sacrificing most of their leadership talent, were left with only a mad monk to guide them out of the wilderness.

Judy Horacek's beautiful and brilliantly funny observations are modern icons perfectly distilling the absurdities, foibles and the dilemmas of contemporary life. Ranging from the minutiae of daily living to larger scale global and environmental issues, her cartoons celebrate human creativity and resilience and are permeated with a concern for justice and a desire for laughter.

If You Can't Stand the...

The ultimate web-slinger's story retold in this amazing visual chronicle

Spider-Man turns 50 in 2012 - find out where it all began in Spider-man Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. From his first appearance in 1962 to his most recent storylines, the milestone events and all the twists and turns of the Spider-Man story are explored and explained.

Filled with fascinating facts about his allies, foes, costume...

From the Incredible Hulk to the invincible Iron Man to the amazing Spiderman, all 200 characters who have made up the The Avengers, the world's mightiest Super Hero team are included in this ultimate character encyclopedia.

Discover all about the Avengers' action packed history since 1963. Find out about each member of the Avengers with detailed facts, stats, character histories, their allies and their...

New and expanded this one-volume encyclopedia of more than 1,200 of the classic characters created by comics giant DC is essential for any fan.

With new entries on the latest DC characters and expanded ones on Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, the JLA, Aquaman, Catwoman and Wonder Woman, all the world-renowned...

Hugleikur Dagsson is the most famous cartoonist in Iceland.

Iceland is very cold, very bleak and very expensive.

The only things to do there are drink and kill whales.

Dagsson's last book - Is This Supposed To Be Funny? - was a cult international bestseller.

He hopes you likes this one. Otherwise he'll have to kill some whales.

Musings from a truly original thinker on eveything under the sun and many things over the moon.

There are few aspects of existence to which Michael Leunig has not turned his renaissance mind, as a bemused and committed member of the human plight. From his cartoonist's sensibilities comes a peculiar journalism made of parable, memoir and soliloquy, on subjects ranging from the sublime to the subhuman...

We've all been forced to endure jobs we don't like. We get up, go to work, go to bed, and do it again. No one knows these pains better than Doug Savage, whose dream of being a cartoonist was eclipsed by his ho- hum office job. That is, until he started doodling chicken cartoons on Post-its and turned them into one of the Internet's most popular cartoon blogs.

Demetri Martin is a Very Important Award-Winning Comedian, so spends a lot of his time travelling around, with a notebook, filling it with jokes and incredibly long palindromes (over 500-words long, in fact). The very best of those are collected here, from his acclaimed comic drawings and the world's worst comeback lines, to brilliant charts and graphs (Incidence of Lung Cancer in Dragons, a Sad Clown/Happy...

While domestic contentment and ease with the natural world are Mr Curly's major attributes, Vasco's restless nature has compelled him into a great voyage of discovery. In the company of his direction-finding duck, he has wandered...

A New Penguin Leunig comprises pieces that have previously appeared in the Melbourne Age and the Sydney Morning Herald .

EVERYTHING ALWAYS

What really happened?
Many, many, many things happened.

Where did these things happen, and how and why?
They happened all over the place, and in the past, for all sorts of reasons and in many different ways.

And what's happening...