Comics Sketchbooks: The Private Worlds of Today's Most Creative Talents
From cartoons to graphic novels, from humor to superheroes, comics are the worlds 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.
- Author
- Steven Heller, Chris Battle, Robert Grossman, Nathan Jurevicius, Ben Katchor, Denis Kitchen, Nora Krug, Matt Madden, Saxton Moore, Josh Neufeld, Gary Panter, Bill Plympton, Charles Burns, Lauren Redniss, Johnny Ryan, Seth, Mark Alan Stamaty, Joost Swarte, Takeshi Tadatsu, Ann Telnaes, Carol Tyler, Lauren Weinstein, Lilli Carré, Seymour Chwast, Robert Crumb, John Cuneo, Kim Deitch, Drew Friedman, Bill Griffith
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Thames Hudson
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780500289945
- Genres
- comics, art, design
- Release date
- 2012
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