Here's part one of our annual gift guide -- DVDs and music tomorrow. This list may help if you're looking to find last-minute presents for pop culture-loving friends and family, or in developing your own wish list.
Books
Whether it's to dive into an read or "coffee table book" to leaf through while sipping eggnog, there are always a lot of great pop culture books released each year. Here are some recent ones:
Life by Keith Richards
Bond Cars and Vehicles
Walt Disney Animation Studios The Archive Series: Design
The Art of Hammer: The Official Poster Collection From the Archive of Hammer Films
Mad Men: The Illustrated World
Let's Bring Back: An Encyclopedia of Forgotten-Yet-Delightful, Chic, Useful, Curious, and Otherwise Commendable Things from Times Gone By
Forry: The Life of Forrest J Ackerman
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History
Frank: The Voice
All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Bob Dylan In America
Starting Over: The Making of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy
Whiter Shades of Pale: The Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle's Sweaters to Maine's Microbrews
Comics collections
This is truly a golden era of comic book reprints. It seems like nearly any comic book series or comic strip you can think of is now available in collected form, whether it's in a spendy hardcover or relatively inexpensive paperback.
Here are some recent releases that would be great gifts to comics lovers:
Adventures of Superboy
Jerry Robinson: Ambassador of Comics
Xenozoic by Mark Schulz
Fire and Water: Bill Everett, The Sub-Mariner, and the Birth of Marvel Comics
MAD's Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragones: Five Decades of His Finest Works
Art of Jim Starlin
Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s
DC Comics Year by Year: A Visual Chronicle
75 Years Of DC Comics: The Art Of Modern Mythmaking
Shazam!: The Golden Age of the World's Mightiest Mortal
Superman vs. Muhammad Ali Deluxe
Absolute All Star Superman
Little Lulu's Pal Tubby Volume 1: The Castaway and Other Stories
Flash Gordon Comic Book Archives Volume 1
Thun'da, King of the Congo Archive by Frank Frazetta
Archie: Pureheart the Powerful Volume 1
Golden Collection of Krazy Kool Klassic Kids' Komics
DC Greatest Imaginary Stories Vol. 2: Batman & Robin
Wednesday Comics
Atomic Knights
Giant Size Little Lulu Volume 1
Nancy: Volume One (John Stanley Library)
The Boy Commandos by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby Vol. 1
The Simon and Kirby Superheroes
The Creeper by Steve Ditko
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Boxset
Legion of Super-heroes: The Great Darkness Saga (Deluxe Edition)
Archie Firsts
Shazam!: The Golden Age of the World's Mightiest Mortal
Also see:
DC Showcase Presents
DC Archives
Marvel Omnibus
Marvel Essentials
EC Comics Archives
Dark Horse Comics Archives
Dark Horse Comics Omnibus books