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2) 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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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...
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Ruby Reid has been having a tough time at Crestwood High, but everything changes when cool new girl Ella Mooney moves to town, and the pair find themselves on the run from a mysterious group that wants to capture Ella--who occasionally grows fangs and a tail--and her whole family.
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Coco, Klara and Mathilda have known each other since primary school, where they met in folk dancing class. Now they're almost teenagers, and their anarchist ideals and dreams of forming a world-beating punk band set them apart from the other girls at school. They can't play any instruments, practice with pillows and pans, and keep getting told that punk is dead. But they're not going to let any of those things get in their way… Published in English...
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In the late '60s, underground comix changed the way comics readers saw the medium ― but there was an important pronoun missing from the revolution. In 1972, ten women cartoonists got together in San Francisco to rectify the situation and produce the first and longest-lasting all-woman comics anthology, Wimmen's Comix. Within two years the Wimmen's Comix Collective had introduced cartoonists like Roberta Gregory and Melinda Gebbie to the comics-reading...
8) Red scare
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"In the aftermath of the Korean War, Peggy's small hometown is rife with anti-Communist hysteria. But Peggy has bigger problems: She's struggling to recover from polio. Taunted by her classmates, Peggy just wants to be a normal kid, until she stumbles across a mysterious object that gives her the power to fly. Unscrupulous operatives from the American and Soviet governments seek the object to overturn the tense political stalemate, and Peggy finds...
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« Imaginez… Imaginez un village des Alpes, serré par les montagnes et l'hiver qui vient. Imaginez… des hommes jusque-là tenus à l'écart d'une guerre qui fut si subite qu'ils n'y prirent pas part. » Ces survivants vont devoir faire face à une nouvelle menace : l'assaut des « verts », ces soldats venus du Nord déterminés à assujettir les montagnards par la force. Résistance, conscience écologique naissante, mélancolie et rencontres...
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Ecosse, IIe siècle après J.C. Au-delà du mur d'Antonin, la guerre entre l'envahisseur romain et les peuples gaëls et pictes piétine. Manipulé par une sorcière, le général romain Horatius libère un fléau ancestral sur la terre de ses ennemis: les Ombres de Thulé. Pour faire face à cette menace, le roi des Pictes devra unir des peuples autrefois ennemis et faire appel à des pouvoirs oubliés.
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« Imaginez… Imaginez un village des Alpes, serré par les montagnes et l'hiver qui vient. Imaginez… des hommes jusque-là tenus à l'écart d'une guerre qui fut si subite qu'ils n'y prirent pas part. » Ces survivants vont devoir faire face à une nouvelle menace: l'assaut des « verts », ces soldats venus du Nord déterminés à assujettir les montagnards par la force. Résistance, conscience écologique naissante, mélancolie et rencontres...
12) Camp Yowie
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In this graphic novel, Theo, Sophie, and Brendan are not exactly excited to be at Camp Yowie during summer vacation. But soon they meet a mysterious ranger who reminds them of a certain big-footed creature similar to the legendary Sasquatch. Will they be able to help the "ranger" protect the forest? This fast-paced, 32-page graphic novel about a fun adventure at summer camp will capture the attention of the most reluctant readers!
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Lily moved to Washington a while ago-making new friends, going to new places, and living an entirely new life. Amy, however, is stuck in California-the same place she'd lived in her entire life. Lily and Amy have been inseparable for the longest time, and regardless of the hours and miles between them, they keep in touch through letters they pour their hearts into. However, like any other friendship, they slowly start to grow apart. As the story unfolds,...
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"An incredible true story in graphic novel form that lays bare the tortured and triumphant history of Taiwan, an island claimed and fought over by many countries, through the life story of a man who lived through its most turbulent times"--
For fans of Persepolis; An incredible true story in graphic novel form, that lays bare the tortured and triumphant history of Taiwan, an island claimed and fought over by many countries, through the life story...
15) Kitten Ninja
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Kitten Ninja volume 1
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"Before Cat Ninja became Metro City's greatest defender, he was tiny, adorable Kitten Ninja and he battled...much tinier foes. (Everybody starts somewhere, right?)."--
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"Ariel has dreams of leaving her southside Chicago neighborhood and making it big as a punk rocker with her best friends and bandmates, now that they've graduated from high school, but the realities of young adulthood make that challenging and strain their friendships with each other."--Provided by publisher.
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After finding out she is to be forced into an marriage of convenience as soon as she graduates high school, Kokoro sees her life ending before her eyes at her father's wishes. And so in her final year of high school, she decides to indulge in her love of other women, and create an incredible sketchbook of lesbian romance to leave behind as her legacy. As she observes the young women of her town, she learns more about their desires, their struggles,...
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Le meilleur de la SF, à retrouver en kiosque, en librairie et par abonnement www.metalhurlant.com.
Chaque année, retrouvez quatre nouveaux numéros consacrés à la science-fiction : deux numéros dédiés à la création, avec des histoires et articles inédits, et deux numéros consacrés à la « première génération Métal ». La rédaction travaille sous la direction de Jerry Frissen et sous l'égide d'un ange tutélaire bien particulier...
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Baby-sitters Club) volume 4
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"Claudia and her sister, Janine, may as well be from two different planets. Claudia, who pays more attention to her artwork and The Baby-sitters Club than her homework, feels like she can't compete with her perfect sister. Janine studies nonstop, gets straight As, and even takes college-level courses! But when something unexpected happens to the most beloved person in their family, will the sisters be able to put aside their differences?"--Publisher....
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Arcadia volume 7
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Lee Pepper attempts to escape the Boatmen in the real world, and in Arcadia, the Homesteaders discover that Giacomo might have unprecedented control over the simulation.