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Comics Sketchbooks: The Private Worlds of Today's Most Creative Talents Paperback - 2012 - 1st Edition

by Steven Heller

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From political cartoons to offbeat graphic stories, from the funnies to underground comics: a contemporary look at comic art from around the world in a volume packed with vibrant visuals, deft texts, and arresting human observation.

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From cartoons to graphic novels, from humor to superheroes, comics are the world's most popular form of illustration. And, as in all forms of illustration, artists and designers experiment with visual ideas, image-and-word play, narrative sequencing, and stylistic flourishes through sketching. What we rarely see is the creative thinking--the doodling--that leads to fully formed visual ideas and stories. Comics Sketchbooks presents the private notebooks of eighty-two of the world's most inventive, innovative, and successful artists alongside new talents and emerging illustrators. The artists have been selected by the world's leading critic and most knowledgeable source in the field of graphic design and illustration, Steven Heller, who has had personal access to some of the most private and unseen material. Although there have been several comic-book compilations over the years, none has the visual excitement, insight, and mind-blowing creativity-- and fun--of this one.

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  • Title Comics Sketchbooks: The Private Worlds of Today's Most Creative Talents
  • Author Steven Heller
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Thames & Hudson, Qc13
  • Publication date 2012-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780500289945 / 0500289948
  • Weight 3.78 lbs (1.71 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.7 x 8.8 x 1.3 in (29.72 x 22.35 x 3.30 cm)
  • Category Graphic Novels
  • Library of Congress subjects Comic books, strips, etc - Technique, Cartoon characters
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011945988
  • Dewey Decimal Code 741.51
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