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Anime Mania
Christopher Hart. Watson Guptill, 2002. First Edition. Japanese animation is hot. Television shows, films, and videos featuring the anime style are wildly popular. The famous cartoonist and teacher, Christopher Hart, demonstrates step by step how any comic book artist can become expert in this wonderful style of animation. Brimming with hundreds of spectacular examples. 144 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 8½" x 11" (21cm x 28cm) ISBN: 082300158X
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The Anime Companion  What's Japanese in Japanese Animation?

The Anime Companion What's Japanese in Japanese Animation?

Gilles Poitras. Stone Bridge Press 1999. Let this friendly Anime Companion guide you to what's Japanese about Japanese animation. Over 500 fascinating entries, great for quizzes, ...more...

The Drawing Book Materials & Techniques for Today's Artist
Richard McDaniel. Watson Guptill, 1995. This is an indispensable reference for every artist, from beginner to professional, whether draftsman of painter. The author devotes sections exploring a variety of media with step by step demonstrations. Using such traditional black and white media as pencil, graphite, charcoal, and ink, he illustrates hatching, cross hatching, dry wash, drawing with an eraser, working with solvent, and stippling.

He then shifts his focus to colour, with crayon, pastel, pastel pencil, coloured pencil, coloured marker, oil pastel, and oil stick. An essential reference. 290 colour and 84 b&w illustrations. 176 pages. Soft Cover Part Colour 9" x 11" (23cm x 28cm) Dust Jacket
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Flash Frames: A New Pop Culture
Edited by Laurie Dolphin & Stuart S. Shapiro, introduction by Stan Lee. Watson-Guptill, 2002. Celebrated here are 40 of the most innovative media artists known to be using Macromedia's Flash software programme. From the apocalyptic landscape of The Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here, via Marina Zurkow's mutant Brain Girl, Laurie Dolphin's Candy Jernigan, to Mondo New York, the cult feature from Stuart S. Shapiro.

The stunning range of styles & visuals is amply demonstrated here, in rich, sumptuous full colour. This edition also includes 8 double sized gatefold pages & will appeal to all fans of the best in graphic illustration. 128 pages plus 8 double-sized gatefold pages. 128 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 10" x 10" (25cm x 25cm)
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Slow Chocolate Autopsy

Slow Chocolate Autopsy

CONTAINS ADULT MATERIAL. Iain Sinclair, Dave McKean. Phoenix. This most intriguing book draws on dark and paranoid images of London from the Renaissance, through Dickens and ...more...
London's Dark

London's Dark

James Robinson, Paul Johnson, introduction by Warren Ellis. Titan Books, 2004. A tale of fact & fantasy set in 1940s London, where bombers fly overhead ...more...
Dark Knights & Holy Fools  The Art and Films of Terry Gilliam

Dark Knights & Holy Fools The Art and Films of Terry Gilliam

Bob McCabe, Terry Gilliam. Orion Publishing Group. Award-winning film director, animator and actor Terry Gilliam has been one of the most original, controversial and successful filmmakers ...more...

How To Draw Manga: Super Tone Techniques
Unkaka Koyama. Super Tone/ Graphic-Sha, July 2002. Bring your Manga animation to life with this definitive guide to screen tones, tools and secret techniques, as used by top professionals. A soft cover edition, as part of the top selling 2How To Draw Manga' series. Soft Cover Black & White 8" x 10" (20cm x 25cm)
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The Women Of Leone Frollo

The Women Of Leone Frollo

CONTAINS ADULT MATERIAL. Luciano Spadanuda, Illustrated by Leone Frollo. Lo Scarabeo, 2003. From a master of contemporary erotic illustration, an exploration of the Women Of ...more...
Revelations: The Art Of Max Bertolini

Revelations: The Art Of Max Bertolini

CONTAINS ADULT MATERIAL. Illustrated by Max Bertolini. Paper Tiger/ Chrysalis Books, 2005. Featuring more than 120 stunning illustrations, Revelations takes us into a world of ...more...
Hardyware

Hardyware

David A. Hardy and Chris Morgan, foreword by Syephen Baxter. Paper Tiger, 2001. Hardyware brings together the vast array of work produced by David Hardy, ...more...

Humorous Illustration The Top Artists of Our Time Talk About Their Work
Nick Meglin, foreword by Federico Fellini. Out of Print. This book provides a behind-the-scenes look at how some of the top illustrators and artists of the 20th century solved this problem in a variety of groundbreaking ways. Readers will discover the secrets of how such legendary illustrators as Norman Rockwell, Maurice Sendak, Jules Feiffer, and Will Eisner captured the spontaneity and essence of their wit on paper.

They will learn how other classic illustrators create and render memorable cartoon figures, hilarious caricatures, innovative animals, gag and panel cartoons, advertisements, and illustrations for graphic novels and children's books. 200 B&W illustrations. 160 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 8½" x 10½" (20cm x 25cm) (ISBN: 0823002705)
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Inner Visions The Art of Ron Walotsky

Inner Visions The Art of Ron Walotsky

Ron Walotsky. Paper Tiger, 2000. This is the first collection of art by Ron. His work conveys precise, clean lines of weirdly fantastical space hardware, ...more...
The Art of Richard Powers

The Art of Richard Powers

Jane Frank. Paper Tiger, 2001. An extensively illustrated account of the life and work of this renowned and influential fine artist. Credited with single handedly ...more...
Revelations: The Art Of Max Bertolini

Revelations: The Art Of Max Bertolini

CONTAINS ADULT MATERIAL. Illustrated by Max Bertolini. Paper Tiger/ Chrysalis Books, 2005. Featuring more than 120 stunning illustrations, Revelations takes us into a world of ...more...

Manga Mania How to Draw Japanese Comics
Christopher Hart. Watson-Guptill Publications, 2001. The manga invasion is in full swing. What accounts for the amazing popularity of Japanese comics? Perhaps it's the unique and instantly recognizable drawing style. Or maybe it's the focus on appealing, everyday people rather than on violent super heroes. Whatever it is, manga is here to stay.

The only step-by-step guide ever published on drawing this popular style of comic book art, the book details, step by step, how young and veteran artists alike can draw fantasy robots, diabolical monsters, mythical animals and other characters that are part of this exciting genre. 200 colour and 100 b&w illustrations. 144 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 8½" x 11" (21cm x 28cm) ISBN: 0823030350
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Manga Mania Villains How To Draw Those Dastardly Characters Of Japanese Comics
Christopher Hart. Watson-Guptill Publications, 2003. This book gives you the low-down on creating those dastardly villains, Japanese Comics style! The lavishly illustrated book is divided into 8 chapters & includes, Evil Basics, The Monsters Of Manga, Glam Villains & Drawing Cool Scenes. Will appeal to fans & students of Manga art. 144 pages. Soft Cover Part Colour 9" x 11" (23cm x 28cm) ISBN: 0823029719
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Mastering 3D Animation
Peter Ratner. Allworth Press, 2000. Everything anyone could want to know about computer animation. Included is a CD-ROM containing clips, model samples and templates. 334 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 8" x 9" (20cm x 23cm) ISBN: 1581150687
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Visual Storytelling The Art And Technique
Tony C. Caputo, Harlan Ellison, Jim Steranko. Watson Guptill, 2002. First Edition. Everything the aspiring visual media artist needs to know in order to master sequential art. Filled with illustration by such legendary artists as Mat Nastos, Jim Steranko, Neal Adams, Wally Wood, Andrew Loomis and many more, Visual Storytelling also features a ready-to-use guide that helps chart progress and skills in visual storytelling media. 12 colour and 400 black-and-white illustrations. 192 pages. Soft Cover Part Colour 8½" x 11" (21cm x 28cm) ISBN: 0823003175
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Terrology 11 (Tales Too Terrible To Tell)

Terrology 11 (Tales Too Terrible To Tell)

George Suarez (Editor). NEC, 1993. Final issue. Charlton gets the spotlight, proving what an excellent company they once were, complete with work by the likes ...more...
Bradbury  An Illustrated Life  A Journey to Far Metaphor

Bradbury An Illustrated Life A Journey to Far Metaphor

Jerry Weist, foreword by Donn Albright, introduction by Ray Bradbury. William Morrow, 2002. A major retrospective of top American science fiction author Ray Bradbury, from ...more...
Humorous Illustration  The Top Artists of Our Time Talk About Their Work

Humorous Illustration The Top Artists of Our Time Talk About Their Work

Nick Meglin, foreword by Federico Fellini. Out of Print. This book provides a behind-the-scenes look at how some of the top illustrators and artists of the ...more...

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