Art Books

Among the many accomplishments in art and literature by Genevan Rodolphe Toepffer (1799-1846), his virtual invention of the comic strip, or graphic...

; Pagination: 47 pages illustrations; Date of Publication: 30/11/1991

; Pagination: 250 pages illustrations; Date of Publication: 01/07/1998

Slow Ball Cartoonist takes readers on a journey to an earlier era in America when cartoonists played a pivotal role each day in enabling major dail...

Jeet Heer more thoroughly and widely understands comics history and the perplexing binomial life of the cartoonist better than anyone who's not one...

Enter a fun world of manga adventure as you color fearless warriors! More than just a coloring book, "Manga to the Max Warriors" takes you inside a...

At once familiar and hard to place, the work of acclaimed Canadian cartoonist Seth evokes a world that no longer exists-and perhaps never existed, ...

Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strip franchise, the most successful of all time, forever changed the industry. For more than half a century, the...

; Pagination: 422 pages 150 color & black and white illus.; Date of Publication: 15/09/2017

; Pagination: 512 pages over 2500 photographs; Date of Publication: 01/12/2014

Jews created the first comic book, the first graphic novel, the first comic book convention, the first comic book specialty store, and they helped ...

In Mexico, the confluence of the 1992 Quincentennial commemoration of Columbus's voyages and the neo-liberal sexenio, or presidency, of Carlos Sali...

Prolific artist/author Christopher Hart covers all types of animals in his latest how-to-draw book: including dogs, cats, horses, penguins, lions, ...

Winner, 2021 Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award, given by the Society for Cinema and Media StudiesWinner, 2021 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards fo...

Winner, 2021 Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award, given by the Society for Cinema and Media StudiesWinner, 2021 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards fo...

Horror comics were among the first comic books published--ghastly tales that soon developed an avid young audience, along with a bad reputation. Pa...

On the surface, the relationship between comics and the 'high' arts once seemed simple; comic books and strips could be mined for inspiration, but...

A spin-off series from the hit manga Gangsta that tells the backstory of Marco Adriano. The man named Marco Adriano is a loyal and beloved member o...

In the mid-1990s, filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki moved from success to success as his work found an audience outside of Japan. His animated films of the ...

Timed for the 25th anniversary of the comic strip Mutts, The Art of Nothing celebrates the work of author and illustrator Patrick McDonnell Mooch, ...

Jack Kirby created or co-created some of comic books' most popular super heroes, including Captain America, The X-Men, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four...

Will Eisner (1917-2005) is universally considered the master of comics storytelling and is best known for his iconic comic strip The Spirit and for...

The names Joe Simon and Jack Kirby are synony mous with comic books, and their partnership ush ered in the Golden Age of comics starting in the 194...

Not many of us make it into the dictionary as an adjective. But then again, Rube Goldberg was no ordinary noun. He was a cartoonist, humorist, scul...

The Art of Comics is the first-ever collection of essays published in English devoted to the philosophical topics raised by comics and graphic nove...

; Pagination: 264 pages Illustrations from 60 contributors; Date of Publication: 11/04/2017

; Pagination: 144 pages Illustrated throughout; Date of Publication: 12/10/2016

Features a preface by Isabella Rossellini. Fantastically colourful illustrations. Extremely entertaining. "I want to go on Puut and Dali's next a...

Nick White's use of vintage magazines and found material to create surreal and humorous imagery evokes a nostalgia for the golden years of printed ...

; Pagination: 280 pages Illustrations; Date of Publication: 01/01/1998

In February 2004, the San Francisco Chronicle began printing an enigmatic feature called "All Over Coffee." Almost immediately, letters of love and...

; Pagination: 92 pages 87 Illustrations black and white; Date of Publication: 04/02/2008

Milt Gross (1895-1953), a Bronx-born cartoonist and animator, first found fame in the late 1920s, writing comic strips and newspaper columns in the...

Saul Steinberg's inimitable drawings, paintings, and assemblages enriched the New Yorker, gallery and museum shows, and his own books for more than...

For over seventy-five years, Archie and the gang at Riverdale High have been America's most iconic teenagers, delighting generations of readers wit...

The rantings and ravings of two enthusiastic young fans who, in an era before fanzines and web pages, wrote about the cartoons they loved in the sp...

As American as jazz or rock and roll, comic books have been central in the nation's popular culture since Superman's 1938 debut in Action Comics #...

The definitive monograph on the art of Tintin. Since he first appeared in Herge's weekly cartoon strip in Le Petit Vingtieme in Paris in 1929, Tin...

This collection of 13 new essays employs ethnographic methods to investigate San Diego's Comic-Con international, the largest annual celebration of...

In 1931, the Chicago Tribune introduced the public to an exciting new comic strip destined to become a classic: Dick Tracy. Tracy's creator, Cheste...

The comics within capture in intimate, often awkward, but always relatable detail the tribulations and triumphs of life. In particular, the lives o...

Part biography, part history, part artistic commentary, this volume looks at several major figures in the field of animation and discusses how thei...

For more than 60 years, Captain America served as an iconic figure in popular culture, and one of Marvel Comics' flagship characters. He represente...

In October 1931, Dick Tracy made his debut on the American newspaper pages. Through extensive research and interviews with Chester Gould (the creat...

Born of color and light in Long Beach, a protege of legendary lowbrow icon The PIZZ, Candy has struck a fever in the landscape of pop surrealism. H...

Funnybooks is the story of the most popular American comic books of the 1940s and 1950s, those published under the Dell label. For a time, "Dell Co...

Funnybooks is the story of the most popular American comic books of the 1940s and 1950s, those published under the Dell label. For a time, "Dell Co...

Comics Sketchbooks presents the private notebooks of 76 of the world's most inventive, innovative and successful artists, alongside new talents and...