Illustration and commercial art

Any time you need a moment of calm or a boost of energy, reach for this book and your best pen or pencil.

**Nominated for the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work**

The first critical guide to cover the history, form and key critical issues of the medium, Webcomics helps readers explore the diverse and increasingly popular worlds of online comics.

Sequential images are as natural at conveying narratives as verbal language, and have appeared throughout human history, from cave paintings and tapestries right through to modern comics.

Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabelle Emilie de Tessier, 1847-1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century.

In Michael Tisserand's biography Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White, the creator of history's greatest comic strip finally gets his due.

With How to Draw Manga Furries, you'll follow the lead of five professional Japanese artists as they show you how to bring dynamic fantasy characters to life--on the page or on screen!

From the New York Times’s former Op-Ed art director, the true story of the world’s first Op-Ed page, a public platform that prefigured the blogosphere.

Wonder Woman.

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The stunning, specially commissioned cover illustrations are one of the great joys of the New Naturalist series, lending it a distinctive style which has inspired nature enthusiasts for many decades.

This book looks at the representation of female characters in French comics from their first appearance in 1905.

Make a fantastic wardrobe custom-fitted to anyone's measurements Sew a complete wardrobe without pricey paper patterns!

Even before the original Frostgrave rulebook landed in players' hands, its artwork, previewed in the run-up to release, attracted widespread attention and acclaim.

Finally, answers to the question: How are big ideas born?

Animal characters abound in graphic narratives ranging from Krazy Kat and Maus to WE3 and Terra Formars.

This illustrated book for children shows you how things work.

A comprehensive introduction to designing services according to the needs of the customer or participants, this book addresses a new and emerging field of design and the disciplines that feed and result from it.

Basics Animation 03: Drawing for Animation introduces readers to the practice of drawing images for use in animation.

Basics Illustration: Thinking Visually by Mark Wigan features a wide range of work, demonstrating diverse visual languages, context, ideas, techniques and skills.

A simple, easy-to-use guide to drawing manga that uses color to show beginning manga artists how to draw each new stroke.

Penguins our loveable, cute, flightless friends who are constantly dressed for a formal occasion have always fascinated us.

Focusing especially on American comic books and graphic novels from the 1930s to the present, this massive four-volume work provides a colorful yet authoritative source on the entire history of the comics medium.

The original, authentic and bestselling guide to modern calligraphy from Chiara Perano, founder of the pioneering and unparalleled calligraphy studio Lamplighter London.

A showcase of the year's best typographic work in print and on screen in advertising, communications, education, marketing, and publishing.

A marvellous, life-enhancing book for all ages, now a major animated film starring Jim Broadbent, Brenda Blethyn and Luke TreadawayUtterly original, deeply moving and very funny, Ethel & Ernest tells the story of Raymond Briggs' parents' marriage, lady's maid Ethel and milkman Ernest, from their first chance encounter in 1928, through the birth of their son Raymond in 1934, to their deaths, within months of each other, in 1971.

A unique behind-the-scenes look at Japanese business and how the animated films of Hayao Miyazaki were introduced to the world.

Thinking Visually for Illustrators features a wide range of work, demonstrating diverse visual languages, context, ideas, techniques and skills.

Featuring the award-winning combination of Jerry Scott's trademark humor and Jim Borgman's brilliant line art, Zits is the perfect comic for anyone parenting a teenager, or who remembers the days of sleeping in until noon, subsisting entirely on pizza, and rehearsing for an arena rock tour from the cozy confines of the garage.

Alan Moore's Watchmen is set in 1985 and chronicles the alternative history of the United States where the US edges dangerously closer to nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

An exploration of infographics and data visualization as a cultural phenomenon, from eighteenth-century print culture to today''s data journalism.

The beautifully illustrated new adventure from cherished friends and Sunday Times bestsellers BIG PANDA AND TINY DRAGON 'James has a way to speak to your soul.

A complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Superhero Comics helps readers explore the most successful and familiar of comic book genres.

Travel the globe with 32 typographic prints inspired by the world s greatest cities, all the way from Amsterdam to Zurich, with stops in Paris, Rio and Tokyo along the way.

If you're an executive, designer, product manager, marketer, or engineer, communication is part of your work.

Explore the epic Star Wars saga through incredible cross-sectionsMore than 100 magnificent artworks bring the vehicles of Star Wars to life.

Modern myths, cheap trash or the objects of fetishist desire?

Using a simple four-stage process, the world-renowned artist shows how to build a portrait, from the basic shape right to finished faces.

Get Up & Gouache shows you how to bring the vibrant and versatile medium of gouache to life.

Based on interviews with the subject, this visual biography is an intimate portrait of Quentin Blake, the much-loved illustrator and artistic genius of our age.

Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through the voices of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts gang.

All stories have characters, and whether its a film, game, book, or comic, all characters need to be designed.

Reflect and be inspired by this beautiful collection of illustrations, accompanied by prompts and quotes from the Qur'an Life is full of highs and lows, but every journey begins with a single step.

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An extraordinary new volume in the bestselling Monster Book of Manga books Gothic features thirty dark characters and easy-to-follow instructions teaching you how to create them.

A stunningly illustrated fairytale for all ages from internationally-acclaimed papercut artist Rob Ryan the follow-up to THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM.

Whether it was a Ginsu knife, George Foreman Grill, Tony Robbins' motivational book, kitchen device by Ron Popeil, or any of the countless other famous products that have been marketed on infomercials over the years, admit it: you or someone you know has bought oneand you're not alone.