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...