Understanding Comics

Understanding Comics
Author: Scott McCloud
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1994-04-27
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 006097625X

Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning.

The Manga Guide to Databases

The Manga Guide to Databases
Author: Mana Takahashi
Publisher: No Starch Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2009-01-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1593271905

Want to learn about databases without the tedium? With its unique combination of Japanese-style comics and serious educational content, The Manga Guide to Databases is just the book for you. Princess Ruruna is stressed out. With the king and queen away, she has to manage the Kingdom of Kod's humongous fruit-selling empire. Overseas departments, scads of inventory, conflicting prices, and so many customers! It's all such a confusing mess. But a mysterious book and a helpful fairy promise to solve her organizational problems—with the practical magic of databases. In The Manga Guide to Databases, Tico the fairy teaches the Princess how to simplify her data management. We follow along as they design a relational database, understand the entity-relationship model, perform basic database operations, and delve into more advanced topics. Once the Princess is familiar with transactions and basic SQL statements, she can keep her data timely and accurate for the entire kingdom. Finally, Tico explains ways to make the database more efficient and secure, and they discuss methods for concurrency and replication. Examples and exercises (with answer keys) help you learn, and an appendix of frequently used SQL statements gives the tools you need to create and maintain full-featured databases. (Of course, it wouldn't be a royal kingdom without some drama, so read on to find out who gets the girl—the arrogant prince or the humble servant.) This EduManga book is a translation of a bestselling series in Japan, co-published with Ohmsha, Ltd., of Tokyo, Japan.

Draw Manga!

Draw Manga!
Author: Christopher Hart
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Cartooning
ISBN: 9780823003693

Provides basic shapes and other techniques of cartooning, followed by illustrated, step-by-step instructions for drawing cartoon villains, superheroes, manga characters, and more.

Let's Make Comics!

Let's Make Comics!
Author: Jess Smart Smiley
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0399580727

A light-hearted interactive guide to comics and cartoon-making that uses an activity book format and creatively stimulating prompts to teach the fundamentals of cartooning in a fun and easy-to-follow fashion. From a working cartoonist and comic book making instructor, this all-ages activity book uses humorous and informative one-page comics and exercise prompts to guide young readers (and readers who are young at heart) through easy-to-master lessons on the skills needed to make comics. The activities cover a range of essential comics-making tasks from creating expressions for characters to filling in blank panels to creating original characters and placing them in adventures of their own. Each exercise can stand on its own or work together with others in the book to stimulate creativity via the comics medium. In the end, readers who complete the activities inside the book itself will have created several comics of their own, and will have generated many ideas for more sequential art creations. Praise for Let’s Make Comics! “At once playful and complex, this book is a perfect introduction to cartooning, as well as a lovely (and lovingly crafted) tribute to the comics form and a timely reminder that artmaking can be fun.”—Roman Muradov, creator of Vanishing Act and On Doing Nothing “Let’s Make Comics is a book I wish I had when I was 9, but 29 works too! It’s so fun and brilliant and packed with oodles of awesome activities. Great book for learning to make comics or for a seasoned cartoonist to find some new inspiration.”—Ben Clanton, creator of the Narwhal and Jelly books “It’s fantastic! This book will make you a better writer and a better artist and show you how to think like a comic star.”—Charise Harper, creator of the Fashion Kitty and Crafty Cat books “Warning! This book will make you make comics, and it will be fun!”—Greg Pizzoli, creator of The Watermelon Seed, Number One Sam, and The Book Hog “If only we'd had this book! Our comics would be much better.”—Elizabeth Pich and Jonathan Kunz, creators of War and Peas

Samak the Ayyar

Samak the Ayyar
Author:
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2021-08-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0231552815

The adventures of Samak, a trickster-warrior hero of Persia’s thousand-year-old oral storytelling tradition, are beloved in Iran. Samak is an ayyar, a warrior who comes from the common people and embodies the ideals of loyalty, selflessness, and honor—a figure that recalls samurai, ronin, and knights yet is distinctive to Persian legend. His exploits—set against an epic background of palace intrigue, battlefield heroics, and star-crossed romance between a noble prince and princess—are as deeply rooted in Persian culture as are the stories of Robin Hood and King Arthur in the West. However, this majestic tale has remained little known outside Iran. Translated from the original Persian by Freydoon Rassouli and adapted by Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner, this timeless masterwork can now be enjoyed by English-speaking readers. A thrilling and suspenseful saga, Samak the Ayyar also offers a vivid portrait of Persia a thousand years ago. Within an epic quest narrative teeming with action and supernatural forces, it sheds light on the lives of ordinary people and their social worlds. This is the first complete English-language version of a treasure of world culture. The translation is grounded in the twelfth-century Persian text while paying homage to the dynamic culture of storytelling from which it arose.

Making Comics

Making Comics
Author: Scott McCloud
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2006-09-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780060780944

Presents instructions for aspiring cartoonists on the art form's key techniques, sharing concise and accessible guidelines on such principles as capturing the human condition through words and images in a minimalist style.

Blade of the Immortal: Beasts

Blade of the Immortal: Beasts
Author: Hiroaki Samura
Publisher: Dark Horse Manga
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1997
Genre: Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN:

The immortal samurai Manji is recovering from his wounds as Rin hunts for her family's murderer.

Call Me Nathan

Call Me Nathan
Author: Catherine Castro
Publisher: SelfMadeHero
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2021-09-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781914224010

A true coming-of-age story that explores transgender identity "All I want is a proper body . . . " Born as biologically female, Nathan spends his formative years facing questions without answers, social ostracism from his peers, and incomprehension from his family--because from as early as he can remember, he knows he has been born in the wrong body. But, as his family comes to recognize, a physical identity is harder to change than a piece of clothing or a haircut. So from the moment he is at last supplied with a professional term for his self-diagnosis--"gender dysphoria"--he is able to leave behind his complicated psychological history, the challenges of his self-harming, and his struggles with sexual identity, and begin the difficult process of claiming his true self. Based on a true story, at first hand, Call Me Nathan issues a moving call for understanding, a powerful denunciation of prejudice, and a celebration of everything it means to love.

Comic Book Tattoo

Comic Book Tattoo
Author: Pia Guerra
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Graphic novels
ISBN: 9781582409665

Over 80 of the best creators from every style and genre have contributed over 50 stories to this anthology featuring tales inspired by the songs of multi-platinum recording artist, Tori Amos! Featuring an introduction by Neil Gaiman, with stories by creators such as Carla Speed McNeil, Mark Buckingham, C.B. Cebulski, Nikki Cook, Hope Larson, John Ney Reiber, Ryan Kelly, and many, many others, Comic Book Tattoo encapsulates the breadth, depth, and beauty of modern comics in this coffee table format book.

The Blank Comic Book Panelbook - Staggered, 7x10, 127 Pages

The Blank Comic Book Panelbook - Staggered, 7x10, 127 Pages
Author: About Comics
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2013-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781936404391

For drawing your own comics, here's a book with 127 pages, each with the borders for 6 comics panels already printed in. This "staggered" edition alternates between tiers with a larger panel followed by a smaller one, and tiers with a smaller panel followed by a larger; if you want six equal panels, look for The Blank Comic Book Panelbook - Basic. (Please note: This is intended as a idea and design sketchbook, not for final work. The paper is neither archival nor acid-free.)