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 Josh Blaylock's ultimate guide to self-publishing is updated to include the newest conditions in the industry, most notably the rise of digital comics, changes in the book store landscape, and crowd source funding.
This guide is a must for anyone seeking the real scoop on just what it takes to get your comic book ideas out into the world. ... [click here for more] |
Devil's Due Entertainment |
$9.99
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 Drawing Expressions For Comics And Cartoons
Chances are, you already know how to draw some expressions. But face it, your stories can only get so far with "happy," "sad" and "angry." In order to give your characters some character, you need to know what they look like when they're about to sneeze, when they smell something stinky or when... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$22.99 $13.99
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 How to Draw in a Classical Style
Arguably the most challenging of subjects for the artist, the human figure also offers opportunities for works of incredible beauty and complexity. In this book, one of today's leading figurative artists shares techniques and approaches for drawing the human form. With a reverent grounding in the methods of the Old Masters and keen perspective developed over Jon DeMartin's... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$32.99 $16.99
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 How to Create Anthropomorphic and Fantasy Animals
How to Create Anthropomorphic and Fantasy Animal
What do you get when you cross a human with a horse (or a hamster, or a hummingbird)? You get any one of a number of fun anthropomorphic animals, also known as "furries" to their friends. From facial expressions to creative coloring, this book contains all the know-how... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$22.99 $13.99
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 Who are the Guardians? Why are they here? This 20 page prologue issue welcomes you to Delta City, and lets you know everything you need to know about this exciting series! The Guardians have arrived! ... [click here for more] |
BlackMagicWolf Productions |
$0.99
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 Welcome to “Comics Vs. Manga”! A book which combines a comic book with drawing tutorials. Meet the talented and diverse comic book and manga artists and join them as they are forced together in the same room. Continue with these artists as they decide to showcase their strengths and knowledge in step-by-step tutorials demonstrating that together they can accomplish more in achieving their... [click here for more] |
Scattered Comics |
$18.00 $7.00
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 Imagine perspective without pain—no T-squares, complicated equations or mechanical terms—just simple instructions and hands-on exercises to teach you how to create a sense of depth in your drawings and paintings. Now go a step further—imagine having fun with perspective. With this book, you will. Here Phil Metzger give you clear-cut guidelines in everyday terms—with a lot of... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$21.99 $12.99
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 Art Of...
A behind the scenes look at all the hard work that goes into a Code Name: Hunter issue.
Creating a comic is a lot of work. Follow Darc's process for an entire issue, with each step per page laid out in unobstructed detail.
Art of Issue 22.5
A detailed look, sketches, inks, initial colors and full shading for all of... [click here for more] |
RCSI Publishing |
$5.00
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 Comics and sequential art are increasingly in use in college classrooms. Multimodal, multimedia and often collaborative, the graphic narrative format has entered all kinds of subject areas and its potential as a teaching tool is still being realized. This collection of new essays presents best practices for using comics in various educational settings, beginning with the basics.
Contributors explain... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$40.00 $14.99
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 Gotta catch 'em all! All the kaiju that is! Golden Agers puts a hit on the world's mightiest monsters! The Kilgore Monster attacks wandering sailors, Dawn At Stonehenge brings an underground army of giant monsters, The Stalker tracks down dinosaurs in an ancient world, the Spawn Of Venus is unleashed on the Earth, The Temple Of The Spider has samurai vs. enormous arachnids, Tor preys on prehistoric... [click here for more] |
Mini-Komix |
$2.00 $0.99
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 100 Ways to Improve Your CG Art
This book provides all the advice artists need to transform their digital painting; from brush, lighting and color basics to special effects, working with layers, and speed and matte painting. The 100+ expert tricks provide quick and easy solutions to all aspects of digital painting through clear instructions, step-by-step demonstrations and breathtaking annotated... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$24.99 $9.99
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 A great deal of scholarship has focused on Joss Whedon's television and film work, which includes Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, The Cabin in the Woods and The Avengers.
But Whedon's work in the world of comics has largely been ignored. He created his own dystopian heroine, Fray, assembled the goofy fannish heroes of Sugarshock, and wrote arcs for Marvel's... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$29.95 $17.99
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 Zine Making, a wikibook on how to make your zines, by contributes Mcld and Thenub314, is licensed under the Creative Commons-Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 imported license, and here is the URL Address: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ You wanna make a zine? Now's your chance to make your very own zine! This very Wiki Book will guide you in the process of making the zine you have always... [click here for more] |
RLS777 |
$2.00 $1.00
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 Vile Villains Book One
Twenty five new villains for your Save the Day Superhero Role Playing Game to unleash fiendish plots and make even the heartiest crime fighter shake with dread.
Save the Day is a rules light superhero role playing game the does not ignore the demands of seasoned gamers. Save the Day uses a system developed for the ENnie Nominated Katana Schoolgirls... [click here for more] |
Okumarts Games |
$4.95
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 Vile Villains Book Two
Twenty five new villains for your Save the Day Superhero Role Playing Game to unleash fiendish plots and make even the heartiest crime fighter shake with dread.
Save the Day is a rules light superhero role playing game the does not ignore the demands of seasoned gamers. Save the Day uses a system developed for the ENnie Nominated Katana Schoolgirls... [click here for more] |
Okumarts Games |
$4.95
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 In a new age of multi-media terrorism. The worlds of superhumans, sentient cartoons, and folklore monarchy collide. Enter, the Toonminati, a secret organization, that covertly rules this imbalance of worlds. How To DRAW BLOOD, is an one-man conceptual anthology, showcasing concepts of this world, where cartoon & humans coexist, albeit in a covert war, where Toons secretly control world... [click here for more] |
Hound Comics |
$5.00 $2.99
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 The thought-provoking, aesthetically pleasing animated films of Hayao Miyazaki attract audiences well beyond the director's native Japan.
Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away were critically acclaimed upon U.S. release, and the earlier My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service have found popularity with Americans on DVD.
This critical study of Miyazaki's work begins with an analysis of the... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$25.00 $13.99
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 Mastering Manga, How to Draw Manga Faces is an excerpt from Mastering Manga With Mark Crilley. True manga style is about more than big eyed characters, but Mark's lessons ensure that you can get them right, whether the character is facing you straight on, at an angle, or in profile.
With lessons on hair styles for boys and girls, and different expressions, you'll get everything you need to know to... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$5.99 $2.99
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 "Children are made readers on the laps of their parents." --Author Emilie Buchwald
Filled with beautifully illustrated reviews and a wealth of recommendations, A Parent's Guide to the Best Kids' Comics lovingly and thoughtfully reveals a world of graphic novels sure to capture the imagination and curiosity of your child.
Children's literature experts and library professionals... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$16.99 $6.99
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 This volume collects a wide-ranging sample of fresh analyses of Spider-Man. It traverses boundaries of medium, genre, epistemology and discipline in essays both insightful and passionate that move forward the study of one of the world's most beloved characters. The editors have crafted the book for fans, creators and academics alike. Foreword by Tom DeFalco, with poetry and an afterword by Gary Jackson... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$35.00 $19.99
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 These 15 essays investigate comic books and graphic novels, beginning with the early development of these media. The essays also place the work in a cultural context, addressing theory and terminology, adaptations of comic books, the superhero genre, and comic books and graphic novels that deal with history and nonfiction.
By addressing the topic from a wide range of perspectives, the book offers... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$35.00 $19.99
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 It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a complete guide to over 50 years of superheroes on screen!
This expanded and updated edition of the 2004 award-winning encyclopedia covers important developments in the popular genre; adds new shows such as Heroes and Zoom; includes the latest films featuring icons like Superman, Spiderman and Batman; and covers even more types of superheroes.
Each... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$49.95 $29.99
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 Superhero adventure comics have a long history of commenting upon American public opinion and government policy, and the surge in the popularity of comics since the events of September 11, 2001, ensures their continued relevance.
This critical text examines the seventy-year history of comic book superheroes on film and in comic books and their reflections of the politics of their time.
Superheroes... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$29.95 $15.99
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 A Clear & Easy Guide to Drawing Landscapes & Nature
Have you ever experienced the peace of walking through the woods or the excitement of a storm gathering on a beach? Artwork provides the ability for us to capture those moments and share them with others.
Drawing Nature for the Absolute Beginner offers a great beginner's course on drawing... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$22.99 $13.99
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 Long after the extinction of the human race, the saga of Squarriors begins. Divided by those species that wish to use their new unexplainable intelligence to create a utopia, the Tin Kin, and their rival nemesis the Maw, Squarriors is the newest chapter of conflict in the earth's history. ... [click here for more] |
Devil's Due Entertainment |
$0.99
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 Kirk Lindo is the author and artist responsible for the creation and publication of The Vampress Luxura, one of the longest running vampire characters in comics history.
A recent Kickstarter campaign to collect all of Luxura's appearances was wildly successful and was funded to 2517% of it's original goal!
Lindo has executed 3 successful Kickstarter Campaigns and has collected some of his insights... [click here for more] |
Vamperotica Entertainment |
$2.99
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 The X-Men comic book franchise is one of the most popular of all time and one of the most intriguing for critical analysis. With storylines that often contain overt social messages within its "mutant metaphor," X-Men is often credited with having more depth than the average superhero property.
In this collection, each essay examines a specific era of the X-Men franchise in relationship... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$35.00 $19.99
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 From the Golden Age of the 1940s, through the Silver Age of the '60s, up until the early '80s--the end of the Bronze Age.
Included are the earliest series, like American Comics Group's Adventures into the Unknown and Prize Comics' Frankenstein, and the controversial and gory comics of the '40s, such as EC's infamous and influential Tales from the Crypt. The resurgence of monster-horror titles during... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$39.95 $19.99
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 An aging crook runs afoul of a shape-changing alien who is on the lam from an intergalactic cop. The Intruder’s plan is to seize power, acquire wealth, and ultimately sow the seeds of destruction on the Earth’s population. His reason is only to revel in his success then head off to another planet to repeat the process. Now it is the task of the two cops from two worlds to stop the evil... [click here for more] |
Outpouring Comics |
$4.99 $1.99
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 Mastering Manga, How to Draw Manga Bodies is an excerpt from Mastering Manga With Mark Crilley. Get everything you need to know to begin drawing manga figures of all types, from typical teens to parents and babies--with the correct proportions and in all sorts of poses.
Mark also shows how variations in height and proportion suit different manga styles, and you'll be delighted by how simple it is... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$5.99 $2.99
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 Everything you need to start drawing manga!
In the jam-packed pages of Manga Crash Course, popular YouTube artist Mina "Mistiqarts" Petrovic shares with you all the techniques you need to create not just manga figures and faces, but full characters and scenes. After learning the basics for drawing and coloring eyes, hands, feet and other body parts, you'll move on to facial expressions,... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$22.99 $11.99
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 Mention Shaft and most people think of Gordon Parks' seminal 1971 film starring Richard Roundtree in a leather coat, walking the streets of Manhattan to Isaac Hayes' iconic theme music. But the black private dick who inspired the blaxploitation film genre actually made his debut on the printed page as the creation of a white novelist.
Ernest Tidyman was a seasoned journalist down on his luck when... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$29.95 $15.99
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 Ethnographic Essays on a Pop Culture Phenomenon
This collection of 13 new essays employs ethnographic methods to investigate San Diego's Comic-Con International, the largest annual celebration of the popular arts in North America. Working from a common grounding in fan studies, these individual explorations examine a range of cultural practices at an event drawing crowds of nearly... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$29.95 $15.99
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 A common misconception is that professors who use popular culture and fantasy in the classroom have abandoned the classics, yet in a variety of contexts--high school, college freshman composition, senior seminars, literature, computer science, philosophy and politics--fantasy materials can expand and enrich an established curriculum.
The new essays in this book combine analyses of popular television... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$29.95 $12.99
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 Essays on the Epic Graphic Satire of Dave Sim and Gerhard
In December 1977, struggling Canadian comic book artist Dave Sim self-published the first issue of Cerebus the Aardvark, a Conan the Barbarian satire featuring a foul-tempered, sword-wielding creature trapped in a human world.
Over the next 26 years, Sim, and later collaborator Gerhard, produced an epic 6,000-page graphic... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$35.00 $18.99
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 When an arcane society sets out to create an army of perfect soldiers, little did they know that instead they would be getting the first generation of superheroes...
Now witness as the first of these hybrid super humans uses his strange ability in public for the first time as he rocks the very foundation of reality in the process! ... [click here for more] |
Tragic Hero Comics |
$3.00
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 Dick Grayson--alter-ego of the original Robin of Batman comics--has gone through various changes in his 75 years as a superhero but has remained the optimistic, humorous character readers first embraced in 1940. Predating Green Lantern and Wonder Woman, he is one of DC Comics' oldest heroes and retains a large and loyal fanbase.
The first scholarly work to focus exclusively on the Boy Wonder, this... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$35.00 $19.99
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 Billionaire industrialist, cold warrior, weapons designer, alcoholic, philanthropist, Avenger--Tony Stark, alter-ego of Marvel Comics' Iron Man, has played many roles in his five decades as a superhero.
From his 1963 comics debut in Tales of Suspense to the recent film adaptations--The Avengers(2012), Iron Man 3(2013)--hundreds of creators have had a hand in writing the character... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$35.00 $19.99
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 Magical Girls are on the prowl to protect the world! The Princess Patrol has Snow White, Rose Red, Rapunzel, Badoura, and Beauty as fairy tale princesses reincarnated in modern day as superpowered heroines to fight the evil Snow Queen. Next is Grace the Amazing, a troubled teenager transformed into a catgirl to battle demons. Finally, the Sushi Senshi from Senshi Vs. Sentai take on their most formidable... [click here for more] |
Mini-Komix |
$3.00 $0.99
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 Use the right side of your brain to draw and paint what you see - not what you think you see
Overcome the obstacles to your artistic expression
Improving your artwork can be as simple as learning how to trust your eyes. Your Artist's Brain shows you how to portray even the most complex subjects by focusing on what you really see - not what you think you see.
Expert art instructor Carl Purcell... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$26.99 $16.99
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 An Artist's Guide to Creating Mythical Creatures
Unleash the Beasts!
For millennia historians, artists and scientists have chronicled their ideas and discoveries of mythological and magical monsters in encyclopedias known as bestiaries. From Asia to America, Japan to the jungles of South Africa, the vast menagerie of exotic and legendary creatures has populated the imaginations of all cultures... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$26.99 $15.99
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This product is designed as a quick play introduction to Save the Day, a super role playing game on Kickstarter until May 16, 2015. Including four sample characters that just can't seem to get along and a rollicking adventure that involves robots, science, fine art and crowd control. This is a sample playtest product designed teach you the basics of Save the Day in no time. Kid friendly and quick to... [click here for more] |
Okumarts Games |
Pay What You Want
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 The Jargon-free Guide for Creative Entrepreneurs
This user-friendly and attractive guide shows creative people how to turn their hobbies into sustainable lifestyle businesses.
Based on a unique 10-question formula, the book provides comprehensive start-up business advice.
The jargon-free information is brought to life with real-life case studies from a range of creative start-ups... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$22.99 $13.99
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 Breathe Life Into Your Fantasy Worlds!
Heroes and heroines seek their fortunes in mysterious forests. Towering castles are built into the sides of mountains. Dragons and fairies soar through the sky and among the stars. And bestselling author Stephanie Pui-Mun Law is here to lead you, step-by-step, through the process of creating the forests, mountains, skies, stars and vistas in which these grand... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$24.99 $11.99
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 First introduced in a 1938 comic book, Superman has since become an iconic character in American entertainment.
This complete history covers Superman's appearances in film and television, from the 1941 introduction of the first Superman cartoon to the 2006 live-action film Superman Returns.
The book includes several rarely seen photographs of the actors who have brought Superman to life for over... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$39.95 $19.99
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 The most trusted guide to the world of children's publishing!
If you write or illustrate for young readers with the hope of getting published, the 2015 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market is the trusted resource you need.
Now in its 27th edition, CWIM is the definitive publishing guide for anyone who seeks to write or illustrate for kids and young adults. Inside you'll... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$29.99 $8.99
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 Right here, Right now! we have four short stories for your viewing pleasure. The first realease from Torrid Comics. Inside this issue you will get thrown into the middle of multiple conflicts, while being introduced to each charachters personalities! Lone Wolf, Knight Fire, Shogun, Bumper & Pinball, get it right here; right now! ... [click here for more] |
Torrid Comics |
FREE
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 Featuring nearly 200 covers from the Golden Age to today, the best comic book covers ever are showcased is this beautiful homage to heroic art.
Eye-popping and spectacular, The Greatest Comic Book Covers of All Time is a full-color salute to the covers that make us say "wow!"
Jaw-dropping, fun, irreverent, sexy and inspiring, these covers have one thing in common: They made you... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$8.99 $5.99
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 The beginning of the world, the great flood, the Tower of Babel and story of Job. ... [click here for more] |
Kingstone Comics |
$12.99 $4.99
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 A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Figure Drawing
Yes, you can!
Known for their friendly, focused, you-can-do-it approach to teaching art, Mark and Mary Willenbrink show beginning artists how to draw people in a realistic style. Inside you'll find everything you need to succeed, from how to select and hold your pencils to expert instruction on drawing hands, clothing and figures in motion. This... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$22.99 $11.99
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