Comic Memoirs

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    • The Man behind Marvel
    • By: Bob Batchelor
    • Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • From the mean streets of Depression-era New York City to recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Lee's life has been almost as remarkable as the thrilling adventures he spun for decades....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Norm Macdonald
    • Narrated by: Norm Macdonald, Tim O'Halloran
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,571 ratings
    • When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre “one step below instruction manuals.” Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada....

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    • A Comic's Life
    • By: Steve Martin
    • Narrated by: Steve Martin
    • Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14,806 ratings
    • In the mid-70s, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up....

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    • By: Sona Movsesian, Conan O'Brien - foreword
    • Narrated by: Sona Movsesian, Conan O'Brien
    • Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,356 ratings
    • Sona Movsesian didn’t wake up one day and decide to become the World’s Worst Assistant. Achieving such greatness is a gradual process—one that starts with long hours and hard work before it eventually descends into sneaking low-dosage edibles into your lunch....

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    • A Comic's Story of Love, Loss, and Lunacy
    • By: Chonda Pierce
    • Narrated by: Becky London
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • One of America’s funniest women opens up in this real and raw memoir, encouraging listeners to face life’s trials with unshakeable faith and joy.

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    • The Amazing Story of Stan Lee
    • By: Danny Fingeroth
    • Narrated by: Danny Fingeroth
    • Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • The definitive biography of the beloved co-creator of many legendary superheroes, A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee presents the origin of "Stan the Man", who spun a storytelling web of comic book heroic adventures into a pop culture phenomenon: the Marvel Universe....

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    • A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit In
    • By: Ayser Salman, Reza Aslan - foreword
    • Narrated by: Ayser Salman, Assaf Cohen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Part memoir and part how-not-to guide, The Wrong End of the Table is everything you wanted to know about Arabs but were afraid to ask, with chapters such as “Tattoos and Other National Security Risks,” “You Can’t Blame Everything on Your Period," and many more....

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    • A Memoir in Six Scenes
    • By: Moshe Kasher
    • Narrated by: Moshe Kasher, Larry Wilson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • After bottoming out, being institutionalized, and getting sober all by the tender age of fifteen, Moshe Kasher found himself asking: “What’s next?” Over the ensuing decades, he discovered the answer: a lot....

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    • The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball
    • By: Stefan Kanfer
    • Narrated by: Nan McNamara
    • Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • As a movie actress Lucille Ball was, in her own words, "queen of the B-pluses." But on the small screen she was a superstar - arguably the funniest and most enduring in the history of TV....

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    • The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and his Revolutionary Comic Strip
    • By: Nevin Martell
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-25-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • In Looking for Calvin and Hobbes, Nevin Martell sets out on a very personal odyssey to understand the life and career of the intensely private man behind Calvin and Hobbes....

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    • A Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s
    • By: Cornelia Otis Skinner, Emily Kimbrough
    • Narrated by: Celeste Lawson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • Actress Cornelia Otis Skinner and journalist Emily Kimbrough offer a lighthearted, hilarious memoir of their European tour in the 1920s, when they were fresh out of college from Bryn Mawr....

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    • A Memoir from Hollywood, Land of Bilk and Money
    • By: Michael E. Uslan
    • Narrated by: Michael E. Uslan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Michael E. Uslan, executive producer of the Batman movie franchise, offers an insider’s look at Hollywood and the process of how movies and television shows go from the drawing board to your screens....

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    • 25 Years of Comments and Comic Pieces
    • By: Tom Bodett
    • Narrated by: Tom Bodett
    • Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • With a gentle wit and a warm-hearted spirit, Tom Bodett shares his humorous perspectives - with an occasional glimpse into a darker side - on the way we live....

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    • By: David Sedaris
    • Narrated by: David Sedaris
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all....

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    • True-Life Tales from the Spinner Rack
    • By: Rob Kelly
    • Narrated by: Ross Landy
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Hey Kids, Comics! is an anthology featuring the true-life "secret origins" of comic book pros, TV and film writers, authors, journalists, and other people from all walks of life....

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    • The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary
    • By: Bill Schelly, Richard A. Lupoff - foreword
    • Narrated by: Derek Botten
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Otto Binder: The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary chronicles the career of Otto Binder, from pulp magazine author to writer of Supergirl and Superman comics....

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    • How the HBO Young Comedians Special Changed the Lives of 1989’s Funniest Comics
    • By: Fred Stoller
    • Narrated by: Fred Stoller
    • Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • In the 1980s and the 1990s, HBO’s annual Young Comedians Special was the ultimate launching pad for emerging comics looking to break into the world of show business. Actor and comedian Fred Stoller tells a story of the 1989 special with a memoir about life, death, and stand-up....

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    • A Cautionary Tale of Sex, Drugs and Comics
    • By: Tim Pilcher
    • Narrated by: Tim Pilcher
    • Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This is the candid, uncensored and utterly unofficial of story of DC Comics' infamous Vertigo UK office, written by one who was the heart of the drug-fuelled, creative whirlwind....

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