Books by cartoonist Mark Newgarden include Cheap Laffs, a picture history of the novelty item; and We All Die Alone, a collection of his comics and humor. Bow-Wow Bugs a Bug (with Megan Montague Cash) has won numerous awards and spawned an ongoing series. The eagerly anticipated How to Read Nancy (with Paul Karasik), an expansion of a 1988 essay on Ernie Bushmiller and the syntax of comics, is due from Fantagraphics in 2012.