Illustration & Commercial Art

Jack Kirby (1917-1994) is one of the most influential and popular artists in comics history. With Stan Lee, he created the Fantastic Four and defin...

The Comics of Joe Sacco addresses the range of his award-winning work, from his early comics stories as well as his groundbreaking journalism Pales...

Little nuns and ducks happily playing every day! The hit web illustration series gets it's English language debut! After a successful crowdfunding ...

Get started with the powerful visual language and storytelling medium that is manga Manga is a unique style of drawing. It's also a great way to ma...

It has become an axiom in comic studies that ""comics is a language, not a genre."" But what exactly does that mean, and how is discourse on the fo...

Will Eisner's innovations in the comics, especially the comic book and the graphic novel, as well as his devotion to comics analysis, make him one ...

Best known for her long-running comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek, illustrated fiction (Cruddy, The Good Times Are Killing Me), and graphic novels (O...

What are super-devoted fans of comic books really like? What draws them together and energizes their zeal? What do the denizens of this pop-culture...

The marvelous recovery of neglected black artists and their awesome body of comics creativity.Syndicated cartoonist and illustrator Tim Jackson off...

In this book, the author presents the perspectives of several authors and designers on how to achieve an emotional graphic design. Even though they...

Learn to draw 75 mega beasts as adorable monsters with Kawaii Monsters Unleashed.In Kawaii Kaiju Monsters, learn how to draw 75 fiercely adorable, ...

2017 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE for Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer-artist Frank Miller turned Daredevil from a te...

In this comprehensive textbook, editors Matthew J. Brown, Randy Duncan, and Matthew J. Smith offer students a deeper understanding of the artistic ...

From Gary Larson’s The Far Side to George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, comic strips have two obvious defining features. They are visual narratives, using ...

This book analyses graphic novels which document social crises. It demonstrates that artists’ documentary use of this medium is a form of social re...

How do literary illustrations affect the way we read—or more subtly, what we read? Through a critical investigation of the role of engraving played...

"The definitive educational title to bring readers through the journey of comic strips from the perspective of British history... a whole new world...

The themes of war and time are intertwined in unique ways in Japanese culture, freighted as that nation is with the multiple legacies of World War ...

In 2006, a cartoon in a Danish newspaper depicted the Prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb in his turban. The cartoon created an international incident,...

Extending the Book introduces the largely-forgotten art of extra-illustration -- individually adding portraits or other illustrations to published ...

Create compelling, original characters using archetypes and design elements such as shadows and line with the tips and techniques found in this ima...