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Jane Austen Cover to Cover: 200 Years of Classic Book Covers
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Include books by the same authorKrazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman
George Herriman, Patrick McDonnell, Karen O'Connell, Georgia Riley de Havenon · 224 pages
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Scott McCloud · 215 pages
Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a seminal examination of comics art: its rich history, surprising technical components, and major cultural significance. Explore the secret world between the panels, through the lines, and within the hidden symbols of a powerful but misunderstood art
Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine?
Mark Todd, Esther Pearl Watson · 110 pages
A zine is a handmade magazine or mini-comic about anything you can imagine: favorite bands, personal stories, subcultures, or collections. They contain diary entries, rants, interviews, and stories. They can be by one person or many, found in stores, traded at comic conventions, exchanged with friends, or given away for free. Zines are not a new idea: they’ve been around for years under various na
Plotted: A Literary Atlas
Andrew DeGraff · 127 pages
"This incredibly wide-ranging collection of maps -- all inspired by literary classics -- offers readers a new way of looking at their favorite fictional worlds. Andrew DeGraff's stunningly detailed artwork takes readers deep into the landscapes from The Odyssey, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, Invisible Man, Lord of the Flies, A Wrinkle in Time, Watership Down, The Handmaid's Tale, and more. Sure to
The Art and Making of Arcane
Elisabeth Vincentelli · 225 pages
How About Never—Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons
Bob Mankoff · 285 pages
"Memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of The New YorkerPeople tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that because he is also a cartoonist at the magazine he actually has two of the best jobs in the world. With the
The Art of the Hunchback of Notre Dame
Stephen Rebello · 194 pages
The Case of Beasts: Explore the Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Mark Salisbury · 158 pages
"Take a front-row seat and witness the filmmaking magic that brought J.K. Rowlings script for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to the screen. Explore the realm of fantastical creatures that roam the wizarding world and discover the magical cast of characters in pursuit of them.."--Page 4 of cover.
History of Beauty
Umberto Eco, Girolamo De Michele · 438 pages
From the Publisher: What is beauty? What is art? What is taste and fashion? Is beauty something to be observed coolly and rationally or is it something dangerously involving? So begins Umberto Eco's intriguing journey into the aesthetics of beauty, in which he explores the ever-changing concept of the beautiful from the ancient Greeks to today. While closely examining the development of the visual
Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions
Guillermo del Toro, Marc Scott Zicree
David Bowie Is...
Victoria Broackes, Geoffrey Marsh · 320 pages
David Bowie is a pioneering artist and performer whose career has spanned nearly 50 years and brought him international acclaim. He has sold over 140 million albums, and been cited as a major influence on contemporary artists and designers working across the creative arts.
The Steampunk Bible
Jeff VanderMeer, S.J. Chambers · 224 pages
Steampunk -- a grafting of Victorian aesthetic and punk rock attitude onto various forms of science-fiction culture -- is a phenomenon that has come to influence film, literature, art, music, fashion, and more. The Steampunk Bible is the first compendium about the movement, tracing its roots in the works of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells through its most recent expression in movies such as Sherlock H
Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow
Zak Smith · 772 pages
The Art of Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith
J.W. Rinzler, George Lucas · 272 pages
The Lord of the Rings: The Art of The Fellowship of the Ring
Gary Russell · 208 pages
The Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Phil Szostak · 253 pages
"Step inside the Lucasfilm art departments for the creation of fantastical worlds, unforgettable characters, and unimaginable creatures. [This book] will take you there, from the earliest gathering of artists and production designers at Lucasfilm headquarters in San Francisco to the fever pitch of production at Pinewood Studios to the conclusion of post-production at Industrial Light & Magic"--Ama
The Complete Phantom of the Opera
George C. Perry, Jane Rice · 171 pages
Face Paint: The Story of Makeup
Lisa Eldridge · 240 pages
"Make-up, as we know it, has only been commercially available in the last 100 years, but applying decoration to the face and body may be one of the oldest global social practices. Lisa Eldridge, one of the world's foremost make-up artists--with a very large and loyal public following of her own--has written the first real history of the subject. Face Paint will explore the reasons behind make-up's
My Ideal Bookshelf
Maira Kalman, Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, Alex Ross, David Chang, Michael Chabon, Thomas Keller, Malcolm Gladwell, Alice Waters, James Patterson, Jonathan Lethem, David Sedaris, Stephenie Meyer, Rosanne Cash, James Franco, Kim Gordon, Tony Hawk, Nico Muhly, Thurston Moore, George Saunders, Nancy Pea · 225 pages
"The books that we choose to keep-let alone read-can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In THE IDEAL BOOKSHELF, dozens of leading cultural figures share the books that matter to them most-books that define their dreams and ambitions and in many cases helped them find their way in the world. With colorful and endearingly hand-rendered images of book spines by Jane Mount, and first
What We See When We Read
Peter Mendelsund · 419 pages
"A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading--how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader. What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did Melville ever really tell us what, exactly, Ishmael looked like? The collection of fragmented images
Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe
Tim Leong · 192 pages
The comic book universe is adventurous, mystifying, and filled with heroes, villains, and cosplaying Comic-Con attendees. This book by one of Wired magazine's art directors traverses the graphic world through a collection of pie charts, bar graphs, timelines, scatter plots, and more. Super Graphic offers readers a unique look at the intricate and sometimes contradictory storylines that weave their