Structura: The Art of Sparth. Some of the best science fiction imagined worlds are created today. Gone are those days of pulp magazines where some of the best artists graced the covers each month. Now with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Painter it is very easy to conceptually design very elaborate scenes unseen in the [...]
The Pet Dragon: A Story about Adventure, Friendship, and Chinese Characters
Christoph Niemann’s, The Pet Dragon: A Story about Adventure, Friendship, and Chinese Characters, in simple terms is an elaborate little big book that teaches western kids the beauty of Chinese characters. Christoph integrates the characters into [...]
Mother Nature’s bag of calamity can deliver some life altering moments for people under the constant eye of approaching doom. Gustav slowly tears through the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, people
evacuate from nearby coastal cities as impending hurricane forces
threaten to destroy everything that it touches. The aftermath of a
phenomena such as hurricanes and tornadoes [...]
If there were a manual on how to nurture and survive raising your baby for the first year, this book is for you. You have to have a wry sense of humor to raise your little bundle of joy. There will be days you [...]
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Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights
More speculative than anything, Santa vs. Satan, is sort of a "Celebrity Death-match" of intellectual proportions. The book asks what it would be like if certain Pop Culture persons real or imagined would be like if they went head to head. [...]
Anna Smudge: Professional Shrink
With the advent of summer holidays and school winding down. Kids are under the impression that learning is out the window. No more books, perish the thought. There are many books out there that will keep those little bright eyes glued to some exciting adventures. Some [...]
Jim Benton’s Cherise the Niece
If you cherish Edward Gorey, Charles Addams, and Tim Burton and have a bent for black humor, then Jim Benton is your man. His new collection of prose illustrated gore and more is in the tradition of Edward Gorey?s The Gashlycrumb Tinies. These [...]
Tall Tales was an innovative newspaper strip syndicated internationally by the New York Herald Tribune from 1957?1963. Whereas newspaper strips are square, single-panel or multiple-panel horizontal gag cartoons, Al Jaffee, known for the Fold-In in MAD Magazine, once again altered the format of his work [...]
When something works for a young writer or artist or you happen to be both you stick with the winning formula. Such is the case for young writer/artist extraordinaire as he come back with a sequel to his first book called I’m The Biggest Thing in the Ocean. I’m the Best [...]
Comic Art Now is a great book to reference some household cartoonists of the industry. Cartoonist my be the wrong word. Comic artists to some but really an artist in the true sense. A comic artist has the undaunting task of creating a world from scratch unlike a film crew that has [...]
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No man is an island some might say. There was no mention of a woman. Tove Jansson is the woman in question, she is gone now and left us a treasure to be found once again by new fans. Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal’s premiere graphic novel printer [...]
The updated reprint edition of now classic in the Shatner World is back thanks to Quirk Books. The Encyclopedia Shatnerica: An A to Z Guide to the Man and His Universe is a must for all fans. In a span of 50 years William Shatner seems to have conquered the universe [...]
Look who reared its ugly head. Uglydolls found their way to Random House with two guides to the Uglyverse. These dolls have in the past few years developed a loyal following and grew each year with new ones. The idea behind these characters created by David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim fancy the [...]
The Big Book of Illustration Ideas 2
What if you need someone to draw salad on a plate with a glass of wine next to it? You could go through the above processes, and?after a while?you’d probably find someone to draw or paint it in the style you wanted. Or [...]
Now you can harness those little imaginations with Tikatok, a new web 2.0 site in beta. This nifty little site will make book publishers out of your little tykes. Yikes Kids! Look out now you can become a writer and illustrator with this simple site and share your work with kids [...]
