Comic, Cartoon & Graphic Novel Art

This beautiful and engaging volume charts the evolution of manga from its roots in late 19th-century Japan through the many and varied forms of comics, cartoons and animation created throughout Asia for more than 100 years. World authority on comic art Paul Gravett details...

Rare & Collectible John Higgins has been the artist or colourist on some of the most iconic comic books of recent years. Here, collected together for the first time, is the best of Higgins' breathtaking work. Alongside never before seen preliminary drawings of now...

Rare & Collectible Many of the most inspiring characters in comics and graphic novels began their epic journeys as orphaned or abandoned children. In these stories, the loss of a parent inflicts challenges that even superpowers cannot easily resolve. For over a century and...

Booklet with 20 removable postcards These postcards feature reproductions of classic 1950s comics.Enjoy them as they are, colour them in, or send them to someone else to colour in!

The first complete narrative history of Underground Comix, the countercultural movement from the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s that forever changed comics. In Dirty Pictures author and journalist Brian Doherty tells the wild history of the outlaw, outsider, and sometimes illegal world of Underground Comix. This...

H.M. Bateman was the first truly modern British Cartoonist of the twentieth century. His dramatic and expressive drawings sizzled with intensity, he had the ability to "draw funnily". Known for The Man Who - a series which chronicled various social faux pas - he...

In the dark and twisted world of Brazillian horror one illustrator's work stood out like a beacon of terror, sending shivers down the spines of readers. His name was Jayme Cortez. As a master of his craft and a maestro of the macabre he...

Welcome to the dark and twisted world of Jayme Cortez, one of the most celebrated illustrators of Brazilian horror comics. With an artistic style that was both chilling and beautiful, Cortez created some of the most memorable covers in the genre's history. From the...

Tripwire was created by Joel Meadows in 1992 as an incidental fanzine which evolved into a comprehensive window onto genre culture examining comics, film, music and much more. Two Issue bundle includes:Winter Special 2020/2021Winter Special 2021 Contents: A Flash 80th anniversary feature looking at the history of DC’s Scarlet...

A deep, nostalgic dive into the advent of gaming, Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master returns us to the emerging culture of Silicon Valley via the medium of the graphic novel. At the centre of this graphic history, dynamically drawn in colours inspired by old...

What fuelled the explosion in the Graphic Novel in recent decades? Where did all the excitement come from? Stephen Weiner, a comics historian and children's literature specialist, provides the answers in this groundbreaking book - the first history of graphic novels. From the agonising...

Rare & Collectible Expert Librarian Stephen Weiner, with the crowdsourcing help of professionals in the field, from artists to critics to leading comic store owners, sifted through the bewildering thousands of graphic novels available to come up with this outstanding, not-to-be-missed 101.  Covering an...

Best known for his wry and incisive takes on American life and politics through the comic strip Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau is among the worlds most widely read cartoonists. Trudeau began shaping Doonesbury as an undergraduate contributor to the Yale Daily News. Today, the strip...

Rare & Collectible Comic Book Covers features 82 covers in chronological order from 1934 to 1963. Comics entered their "golden age" in 1938 when a new idea revolutionised the industry - the creation of the first and archetypal superhero. Superman, pioneered by Detective Comics,...

Sophie Crumb's startlingly expressive drawings track her development as an artist from the age of two to twenty-eight. Sifting through dozens of their daughter's remarkable sketchbooks, A. and R. Crumb selected more than three hundred paintings and drawings that depict her artistic and psychological...

Banksy is arguably the most well-known street artist of all time. But we don’t actually know who he is. This is just one of many contradictions that are addressed in this enormously compelling graphic biography. When two young Londoners are caught spray-painting graffiti on...

This graphic novel delves into the life of the acclaimed artist Edward Hopper, whose iconic works depict quintessentially American scenes and experiences. While many of Hopper's most acclaimed works have been embraced by American culture, the artist himself rejected much of the lyricism and romance...

This graphic biography traces Rothko's entire life, from his boyhood emigration from Russia to America, to his suicide in 1970. It touches on his schooling and early work for the WPA in the 1930s; the evolution of his art from representational to purely abstract;...

Ivan Brunetti is a cartoon and comics scholar based in Chicago. This eye-popping illustrated autobiography traces his artistic trajectory and output, from youthful doodles to his cover illustrations and comic strips. Noted for combining blackly humorous, taboo-laden subject matter with simplified and exaggerated cartoon drawing...

From Despicable Me to Minions: The Rise of Gru, Illumination’s hit films have benefited from the playful and visionary designs of French artist Eric Guillon. This exclusive volume collects over twelve hundred pieces of the artist’s work across eight films, showcasing concept art for...