New York based cartoonist Gabrielle Bell brings together, for the first time, thirty-five of the popular 'Book of' series, plus several extra short comics, displaying the broad range of Bell's storytelling and cartooning talent. Her fiction includes 'Book of Black,' a story of Kate, a pretty young rhinoplasty assistant who encounters happy-go-lucky street people, a lascivious landlord, vapid co-workers, and Trent Reznor on her descent into madness. 'Amy was a Babysitter' takes a sweeter tone in which the wanderlusting heroine spins captivating tales about a world she imagines to be outside the small town she wishes to leave. Bell's autobiographical tales feature the author as an eccentric old lady, a five hundred-foot-tall woman, in England, in Mexico with a baby, and being charmed and hypnotized by colorful San Francisco characters.