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  Perspective! for Comic Book Artists: How to Achieve a Professional Look in Your Artwork

  by David Chelsea

  This clever book teaches artists the unique skill of drawing perspective for spectacular landscapes, fantastic interiors, and other wildly animated backgrounds to fit comic-strip panels.
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  Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form

  by Scott Mccloud

  In 1993, Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture with the acclaimed international hit Understanding Comics , a massive comic book that explored the inner workings of the worlds most misunderstood art form. Now, McCloud takes comics to te next leavle, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are created, read, and preceived today, and how they're poised to conquer the new... (more)
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  500 Comic Book Villains

  by Mike Conroy

  Here come the heels and hoodlums! It’s an entertaining rogues’ review, starring Batman’s Joker, Dick Tracy’s Flattop and Pruneface, Flash Gordon’s Ming the Merciless, Spider-Man’s Green Goblin, and hundreds more villains connoisseurs of comics have always loved to hate. Written especially for comic book collectors and nostalgia buffs, 500 Comic Book Villains is a chronicle of fictional wickedness that also... (more)
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  The Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, Edition #35 (Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide)

  by Robert M Overstreet

  The undisputed bible of the industry for thirty-five years — The Official® Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide — is the book no comic collector or investor can afford to be without. This 35th edition brings you more information than ever before, including: LATEST PRICING INFORMATION On comic books, GRAPHIC NOVELS, and Big Little Books. MARKET TRENDS AND INSIDERS’ TIPS The Overstreet Market Report on the... (more)
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  Caped Crusaders 101: Composition Through Comic Books

  by Jeffrey Kahan

  The comic-spawned Spider-Man franchise, despite its “pop” status, demonstrates important trends in literature. It raises numerous key questions for developing a better understanding of literary elements and devices. How, for example, do writers involved with the franchise reconcile divergent plotlines and characterizations that appear in multiple serials, and in a number of concurrent depictions of the hero in... (more)
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  The Official Overstreet Comic Book Grading Guide

  by Robert M Overstreet

  The Ultimate Authority Delivers The Right Grade Every Time Grading comic books is the key to successful comic book collecting, and now the leading expert on comic books, Robert M. Overstreet, together with co-author Arnold T. Blumberg, has set the standard for grading the condition of comic books. With The Official Overstreet Comic Book Grading Guide , you will learn all the information you'll ever need to... (more)
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  Who Needs A Superhero?: Finding Virtue, Vice, And What's Holy In The Comics

  by H. Michael Brewer

  Brewer, a pastoral theologian who has been collecting comics for more than four decades, expresses an unpretentious love and understanding of comics as a window into spiritual reality. As a devoted fan, Brewer embraces the unambiguous heroism of the comics: Wonder Woman's passion for truth, Superman's Christ-like ethic of servanthood. He also appreciates the cautionary tales of flawed heroes: Batman's obsessive... (more)
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  The Psychology of Superheroes: An Unauthorized Exploration (Psychology of Popular Culture series)

  Unmasking superhuman abilities and double lives, this analysis showcases nearly two dozen psychologists as their essays explore the minds of pop culture’s most intriguing and daring superheroes, including Spider-Man, Batman, Superman, and the X-Men. Exposing the inner thoughts that these reclusive heroes would only dare share with trained professionals, heady experts give detailed psychoanalyses of what makes... (more)
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  This Book Contains Graphic Language: Comics As Literature

  by Rocco Versaci

  "This Book Contains Graphic Language" looks at different literary forms and genres - including journalism, fiction, memoirs, and film - in relation to their comic book counterparts. By demonstrating the ways in which comic books (and graphic novels) both reflect upon, and expand the boundaries of literature, Rocco Versaci demonstrates that comics have earned the right to be taken just as seriously as any other... (more)
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  Opportunities in Cartooning & Animation Careers (Opportunities in)

  by Terence J. Sacks

  This book offers: The latest information on a field of interest Training and educational requirements for each career Salary statistics for different positions within each field Up-to-date professional and Internet resources
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  Erotic Comics 2: A Graphic History from the Liberated '70s to the Internet

  by Tim Pilcher, Gene Jr. Kannenberg

  For over four decades, erotic comics have flourished around the world. Erotic Comics 2 examines how this budding art form exploded from the California comix scene to become an international publishing phenomenon. Beginning with an exploration of newly liberated American artists in the '70s, this overview examines the gay and lesbian comics scene, current artists and publishers in Europe, and Japanese erotica.... (more)
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  Writing and illustrating the graphic novel : everything you need to know to create great graphic works

  by Mike Chinn

  Dramatized sequential illustrations with dialogue—an art form once confined to production of comic strips and comic books—has recently graduated into the popular, fast-growing, and often financially rewarding genre of the graphic novel. Writing and Illustrating the Graphic Novel is an authoritative instruction manual suitable for formal art class or for self teaching on the part of ambitious self-starters.... (more)
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  Comic Books As History: The Narrative Art of Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar (Studies in Popular Culture)

  by Joseph Witek

  This well focused and perceptive analysis of a phenomenon in our popular culture—the new respectability of the comic book form—argues that the comics medium has a productive tradition of telling true stories with grace and economy. It details vividly the outburst of underground comics in the late 1960s and ‘70s, whose cadre of artistically gifted creators were committed to writing comic books for adults, an... (more)
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  Men Of Tomorrow: Geek, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book

  by Gerard Jones

  "The fascinating and heartbreaking true story of the goniffs, shmendricks, and shlemiels who gave birth to the superhero comics-written with all the verve and velocity of a golden age comic book."-Art Spiegelman Animated by the stories of some of the last century's most charismatic and conniving artists, writers, and businessmen, Men of Tomorrow brilliantly demonstrates how the creators of the superheroes... (more)
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  Understanding Comics The Invisible Art

  by Scott McCloud

  Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning.