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7) How to draw
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How to draw a graphic novel is structured as a series of short art courses that combine technical advice with creative inspiration. The book includes lessons in how to construct a narrative, develop characters, design settings, as well as the basics of printing, binding and digital file set-up. Each lesson is supported by striking illustrations by graphic novel artist Marco Maraggi, and professional artworking tips are delivered in the style of a...
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It's Cristina Hawkins's thirtieth birthday, and the aging stripper has just spent her special night giving another local scumbag a lap dance in the champagne room at the place she works. And when, she gets roughed up by her customer yet again, something seems to change in Cristina, and along with an ever-changing port city of Clearwater, a rough and wild place where anything seems to go and the rich call all the shots-nobody's ready for the scourge...
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Chester and Percy journey to destroy a coven of witches at the king's request. After encountering numerous and harrowing obstacles, the true nature of their mission is revealed. Things were never as they seemed, and they must join forces with a supposed enemy to battle those they thought to trust the most.
11) Snowden
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As many as 1.4 million citizens with security clearance saw some or all of the same documents revealed by Edward Snowden. Why did he, and no one else, decide to step forward and take on the risks associated with becoming a whistleblower and then a fugitive? Rall delves into Snowden's early life and work experience, his personality, and the larger issues of privacy, new surveillance technologies, and the recent history of government intrusion. Rall...
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The original three-volume anthology The Graphic Canon presented the world's classic literature--from ancient times to the late twentieth century--as eye-popping comics, illustrations, and other visual forms. In this follow-up volume, young people's literature through the ages is given new life by the best comics artists and illustrators. Fairy tales, fables, fantastical adventures, young adult novels, swashbuckling yarns, your favorite stories from...
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The classic literary canon meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in Russ Kick's magisterial, three-volume, full-color The Graphic Canon, volumes 1, 2, and 3.
Volume 3 brings to life the literature of the end of the 20th century and the start of the 21st, including a Sherlock Holmes mystery, an H.G. Wells story, an illustrated guide to the Beat writers, a one-act play from Zora Neale Hurston, a disturbing...
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The Graphic Canon is a one-of-a-kind trilogy that brings classic literatures of the world together with legendary graphic artists and illustrators. There are more than 130 illustrators represented and 190 literary works over three volumes-many newly commissioned, some hard to find-reinterpreted here for readers and collectors of all ages.
Volume 1 takes us on a visual tour from the earliest literature through the end of the 1700s. Along the way,...
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The mind of Henry Flint is a galaxy of beautiful atrocities – a nightmare factory where the bestial becomes benign, the mundane magical. Henry Flint is at once a full-service doodling savant and a one-man alien zoo, and this never-before-seen collection of his personal work is an attempt to chart a single, crooked leg of the artistic journey he takes daily. Welcome to the best of the bestiary.
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We've got to talk about Hollow Girl. With her soul restored, Hannah is understandably a mess. Betrayed by her friend and idol - someone with whom she may even have been in love - she now faces a future as the new Hollow Girl, a role she inherited but no longer wants. Unfortunately, the dead won't take no for an answer, leaving her with only one desperate option. But Blunt - the man who watched over her while she was only a shell - is still determined...
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'No good can come of cheating death.' When her adoptive mum falls ill, Pumpernickel - a changeling that has embraced her human parents - embarks on a quest for a magic potion that could save her life. The only problem is that it's made up of forbidden ingredients, the gathering of which would make her an enemy of all of Faery. But none of that will matter if she can't survive a meeting with the Corpse King. It's time for Pumpernickel to pick a side,...
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Children are kids and adults are kids too. The Flatulent Pumpkin's Gone With the Wind let's children and adults feel this in the sweetest and most exhilarating way. It's a lot of fun and may be the most important book a child reads for years to come.
The town's children knew something was horribly wrong when the teacher didn't come back from lunch break. They dashed out of school and discovered all of the adults were gone! The children didn't think...
19) Eterno Amor
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eterno amor es una maravillosa novela la cual narra la historia la vida de una emprendedora una empresaria y de como el amor prevalece a pesar de toda tormenta.
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For more than 75 years Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead have been one of America's favorite couples. Through war and peace, through boom and bust, through sexual revolution and social upheaval, Blondie has become the most widely read comic strip in syndication-in 35 languages and in 47 countries.Blondie?the comic strip?was born on September 8, 1930. Dagwood was the rich, but awkward, son of millionaire industrialist J. Bolling Bumstead, while Blondie...
