Illustrated with the most representative examples of the genre, this book in English explores the world of Japanese comics.

Easy to use eletronic permission free illustrations and designs for art, craft, business and educational use.

The most comprehensive and monumental history of women cartoonists from 1896 to the present day.

A celebration of fifty years of Marvel comics features seven hundred illustrations and a text that traces the history of Marvel, from its first publication in 1939, describing the birth and popularity of The Human Torch, Daredevil, and other superheroes. Reprint.

Contains rings of seahorses that seem to rotate on the page, and butterflies that transform right before your eyes into two warriors with their horses. This work includes playful artistic creations, such as Shigeo Fukuda's Mary Poppins, where a heap of bottles, glasses, shakers, and openers somehow turn into the image of a Belle Epoque woman.

Follows Durtal, a shy, censorious man, who is writing a biography of Gilles de Rais. Bored by the vulgarity of everyday life, he seeks spiritual solace by immersing himself in another age. But when he meets the exquisitely evil Madame Chantelouve, he is drawn into the twilight world of black magic and erotic devilry in fin-de-siecle Paris.

Born in Romania in 1914, Steinberg studied architecture in Milan and made a name for himself as a cartoonist before fleeing fascist Italy in 1941. Avidly sponsored by The New Yorker, he arrived in Manhattan the following year, only to join the military on a worldwide tour of duty, which he chronicled in the pages of the magazine.

A hideous crime is committed at a fashionable London society gathering. The victim is the beautiful, innocent Belinda, her attacker is the dastardly Baron, and his weapon of choice is a pair of scissors...Pope's mock-epic is the sharp and witty tale of the most famous bad hair day in the history of literature.

Encompassing traditions from the USA, Britain, Europe and Japan, this volume offers a comprehensive survey of comic art. The author examines the creators behind some of the best-known characters in modern fiction, such as Superman, Tank Girl, and Sid the Sexist.

A history of the information wheel, with moveable wheel models. Information wheels have been used since the 14th century to measure, record, predict and calculate everything from time and space to military history and recipes.

Tackling all aspects of Web design theory, including the ways that color, fonts, clip art, photographs and so on contribute to creating a visual impression, this book is for any course in Web Design, Graphic Design, Web Graphics, Advertising Design or Visual Communications. It takes the students through site planning and layout and others.

A collection of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons. The author won the 1986 Reuben Award as Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year and has also illustrated Something Under the Bed is Drooling , Scientific Progress Goes Boink and Weirdos From Another Planet .

Kimon Nicolaides' guide to learning to draw, consists of 64 exercises and is still used in art schools all over the world 70 years after his death.

Ruskin's The Elements of Drawing, first published in 1857, remains one of the most sensible and useful books on how to draw and paint, both for the amateur and the professional artist.

Containing 28 pages of new sketches and a four-page gallery of cover art from the original comic series, this is a revised edition of a Batman graphic novel first published a decade earlier.

In the mid-1960s, Tom Phillips took a forgotten 19th-century novel, W. H. Mallock's 'A Human Document', and began cutting and pasting the extant text to create something new.

This book takes place at the cusp of the 20th and 21st centuries, in the pre- and post-September 11th world. It is a singular product of its time, packed full of words and images portraying the architectural projects and metaphysical mechanics that have defined Rem Koolhas's OMA-AMO firm over the past seven years.