(W/A) Various Showcasing 45 artists, from top industry professionals to talented high school illustrators. 'COMP x Artists Sponsorship' features the artwork of talented creators popular online from across Japan and beyond, each providing a stellar original illustration for the book alongside creator commentary. Featuring both Japanese and English text, and sold in a special protective vinyl slip bag.

Hot on the heels of last year's VIP: The Mad World of Virgil Partch comes this brand new collection of intoxicated insanity! Collecting the top shelf of Partch's drink-themed artwork including well-known favorites, this new book is sure to delight even the most rigid teetotaler. So batten down the hooch and prepare to cast off on the stormy seas of booze with your faithful captain, Virgil Partch!

(W) Hideo Kojima Ever since he was a child, Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima was a voracious consumer of movies, music, and books. They ignited his passion for stories and storytelling, and the results can be seen in his groundbreaking, iconic video games. Now the head of independent studio Kojima Productions, Kojima's enthusiasm for entertainment media has never waned. This collection of essays explores some of the inspirations behind one of the titans of the video game industry, and offers an exclusive insight into one of the brightest minds in pop culture.

Steve Ditko's most creative comics are lovingly reproduced in a beautiful large format hardback book, 'The Creativity of Steve Ditko,' a companion to Craig Yoe's previous 'The Art of Ditko.' Forward by Paul Levitz with revealing essays by Mike Gold, Jack Harris, Mikal Banta, and Amber Stanton. Amber, daughter of fetish artist Eric Stanton, gives ground-breaking background about when her father and Ditko shared a studio for nearly a decade and worked on each others projects during the creation of Spider-Man.

Showcasing the beautiful artwork of manga creator Daisuke Moriyama! CHRONICLE features full color artwork from the popular Chrono Crusade and World Embryo series, plus pieces from across the artist's career. Included you'll find manga covers, bonus pinups, card game images, RPG artwork, and more!

(A/CA) J. Scott Campbell Sultry. Sexy. And stripped... of color! The luscious artwork of J. Scott Campbell is unmistakable and often imitated - and now it's yours to color in this collection of artwork from the comic book series Danger Girl. From thrilling scenes to chilling curves, Permission to Thrill brings the best of the comics medium to the world of coloring books!

This landmark collection features ten of Clowes' most influential stories, along with interviews in which he talks about the creative process and twelve thought-provoking essays by contemporary scholars and critics. A wide ranging introduction to the work of one of the most important living cartoonists, the book features Ghost World and several other stories - some reprinted for the first time - about girls and boys coming of age, troubled superheroes, and the place of artists and critics in popular culture.

Showcasing the grim and chilling artwork behind the fan-favorite Dark Souls game in a gorgeous hardcover collection. Dark Souls: Design Works features key visuals, concept art, character & monster designs, rough sketches, and an exclusive interview with the game's creators.

Celebrating the franchise's 25th anniversary, this new hardcover edition of Darkstalkers: Official Complete Works is the ultimate compilation of Darkstalkers artwork and history! The book collects the spectacularly haunting artwork behind every Darkstalkers game, including key visuals, character illustrations, promotional artwork, rough concepts, and creator commentary. Also featured are multiple interviews with the creators behind the series, plus tribute pin-ups from your favorite Capcom artists!

NEW HARDCOVER EDITION! Darkstalkers, Capcom's horror/anime fight-fest video game property, is a fan-favorite among gamers worldwide. Now illustrators, animators, comic artists, manga creators, pros and fans alike have come together to produce nearly 300 pages of all-new artwork celebrating the Darkstalkers franchise. This video game art gallery is packed with beastly creatures, sexy temptresses, and a hefty helping of inspiration, energy, and excitement!

(W/A/CA) Dave Stevens Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the debut of The Rocketeer in comics with this beautiful book showcasing the art of one of the masters of the! In April of 1982, The Rocketeer debuted as a backup feature from Pacific Comics. From those humble beginnings the artistry of Dave Stevens caught the imaginations of countless readers and became a worldwide sensation, even being turned into a big-budget feature film! And in 2010 when IDW launched its award-winning Artist's Edition series, The Rocketeer was the inaugural release, even winning two coveted Eisner Awards that year. The book quickly sold out and went into a second printing. Now, more than ten years later, ?is soaring back with a new 40th anniversary printing. As with all Artist's Editions, the pages reproduced in this book have been meticulously scanned from the original art. Readers will be able to peruse these pages and see all the quirks and nuances that make original art so unique-blue pencil notations, white out, gradients in the ink, and so much more. Unless you were looking over Dave's shoulder as h

(W) Gege Akutami Tanjiro's quest to avenge his family and heal his sister is over! Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba took readers on a thrill ride through Taisho-era Japan, as Tanjiro and the rest of the Demon Slayer Corps battled the most fearsome and vicious demons of all time. Now that the dust has settled, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba-Corps Records has all the info a fan could want about the series, as well as a never-before-printed bonus manga!

(W) Koyoharu Gotouge The all-new Demon Slayer coloring book is the latest celebration of the art of Koyoharu Gotouge, the creator of the hit manga, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. This new volume, with flexible binding for easy use, features over 70 detailed line illustrations based on images found in the manga. Readers of all ages will enjoy coloring the gorgeous artwork, action-packed scenes, and funny moments from one of the best-selling series of all time! For teen audiences.

(W) Capcom (A) Makoto Tsuchibayashi, Tatsuya Yoshikawa New Hardcover Edition! It's the ultimate art tome for the iconic Devil May Cry franchise! Collected are materials from the first four classic Devil May Cry games and the Devil May Cry anime series. Inside you'll find character artwork, weapon designs, creatures, locations, and more. Also included are over 20-pages of exclusive interviews with the developers and artists behind the long-running series, as well as plenty of creator commentary!

In seven days, Tokyo will fall. Demons have invaded the city, and unless a group of teenagers do something about it, fear and chaos will reign. Devil Survivor: Official Material Collection is the ultimate companion to the hit role playing game, and includes character designs, promotional artwork, storyboards, a detailed demon guide, and creator interviews.

(W) Brian Cunningham, Tom Spurgeon (A/CA) John Romita, John Romita

(A/CA) Winsor McCay This recently discovered comic strip by cartooning pioneer Winsor McCay opens a surprising new window into McCay's life and work and showcases his exquisitely beautiful delineations (reproduced from the original art). Merkl explores the influences McCay brought to the strip- from Gertie the Dinosaur to the animation in 1933's King Kong - and the growth of New York City from the Holland Tunnel to the Empire State Building-and traces our love of dinosaurs and monster movies down through the decades.

(W/A) Masami Miyazaki Fifty recipes for delicious bento boxes featuring your favorite Disney characters! Create masterpieces for any meal, including snack time, with Mickey, Minnie, Elsa, Anna, Winnie the Pooh, and more! Transform your lunch box with Disney Bento and enjoy the magic wherever you go!

(W) Emi Tsuneoka Create amazing Tsum Tsum-inspired sushi with this new Disney sushi cookbook! Bring the Disney magic home with twenty-seven delicious sushi recipes! Create your family's favorite Tsum Tsum characters including Mickey, Minnie, Elsa, Olaf, and more. These fun recipes feature step-by-step photographic instructions to guide you every step of the way. Perfect for lunch boxes, picnics, and snacks, Disney Tsum Tsum Sushi Cookbook will have you making sushi masterpieces in no time!

(W) Theo Prasidis (A/CA) Maarten Donders Bongs, goats, amps, and a lot of naked nuns! In five decades of wretched existence, doom metal has evolved into a vast orchard of unearthly delights. Explore its unholy rites with THE DOOMSTER'S MONOLITHIC POCKET ALPHABET, the definitive illustrated lexicon of all things doom. Or be doomed!

(W) Chris Wisnia & Various A sly, loving, and hilarious parody/tribute of late 1950s-era Marvel monster comics (written and drawn as homages to the work of Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko) these 20 stories are accompanied by a subversive commentary about the treatment of comics creators and fans by an exploitive publisher that just doesn't care. Plus: real illustrations by famous comics artists who wanted in on the fun, including Arthur Adams, Mike Allred, Mark Bod?, Jeffrey Brown, Sal Buscema, Geof Darrow, Colleen Doran, Michael Golden, Gilbert Hernandez, Mario Hernandez, Peter Kuper, Michael Lark, Jae Lee, David Mack, Bill Plimpton, Esad Ribic, Steve Rude, Bill Sienkiewicz, William Stout, Herb Trimpe, and Thomas Yeates.

(A) Various For fans of Lord Of The Rings, Game Of Thrones and lovers of DRAGONS worldwide! Dragons. They reign above the eternal snows or in the depths of the abyss... They are marvelous, magical, malicious creatures... But where do these winged crea-tures with sparkling scales and fearsome claws come from? This collection of illustrations on the theme of dragons brings together the best illustrators and comic book authors from around the world: French, English, Danish, Spanish, Italian, American, Canadian... From John Howe, designer of The Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia, to Todd Lockwood, illustrator of Dungeons & Dragons, and Olivier Ledroit, creator of the Chronicles of the Black Moon, and Adrian Smith, one of the authors of Warhammer, and more... They've pooled their talents in a Tolkien-style universe where dragons coexist, fight Dwarves, Orcs, Elves and Humans... The result is this illustrated encyclopedia, which combines an extraordinary histo-ry of dragons, with gorgeous, fully-painted art, that captures every majestic and fearsome detail of these wonderful sca

A UNIQUE MIX OF COMICS, POP CULTURE AND AMERICANA The season's first book from Fantagraphics' new imprint Marschall Books is Drawing Power, a lively collection of mass market print advertising from the 1890s to the recent past, starring both cartoonists and cartoon characters. While critics debate whether comics is high art or low art, the fact is that the comic strip was born as a commercial medium and was nurtured by competition, commerce, and advertising. Drawing Power will be the first book-length examination (and celebration) of the nexus of art and cartoons. It will focus on the commercial roots of newspaper strips; the cross-promotions of artists, their characters, and retail products; and of the superb artwork that cartoonists invested in their lucrative freelance work in advertising. Drawing Power is cultural history, chronicling a time in popular culture when cartoonists were celebrities and their strips and characters competed with the movies for the attention of a mass audience. The book will examine cartoonists as public personalities, and their advertising efforts fr

Drawing Words and Writing Pictures is a course on comics creation - for college classes or for independent study - that centers on storytelling, and takes readers through the process of making a complete comic. With chapters on lettering, story structure, and panel layout, the fifteen lessons offered provide a solid introduction to how to make a comic.

(W) Merrill Markoe (A/CA) Drew Friedman Featuring over 100 of Drew Friedman's portraits of artists, cartoonists, comedians, musicians, actors, politicians, the famous and the infamous, rendered by the man Boing Boing calls 'The greatest living portrait artist.' No one is spared the loving Friedman treatment, including Drew Friedman himself!

Following up on the popularity of the ever-growing phenomenon known as Drink and Draw Social Club?, Vol. 2 contains even more scribblings and scratchings. Featuring illustrations done strictly in bars and restaurants-the pints and pencil shavings make for good times and even better art. Established in Los Angeles in 2005, the core members of DDSC? (Dave Johnson, Dan Panosian, Jeff Johnson, and Brad Vancata) have now multiplied to over 1,600 participants, with splinter groups popping up everywhere from L.A. to New York, and beyond.

Following up on the popularity of the ever-growing phenomenon known as Drink and Draw Social Club?, Vol. 2 contains even more scribblings and scratchings. Featuring illustrations done strictly in bars and restaurants-the pints and pencil shavings make for good times and even better art. Established in Los Angeles in 2005, the core members of DDSC? (Dave Johnson, Dan Panosian, Jeff Johnson, and Brad Vancata) have now multiplied to over 1,600 participants, with splinter groups popping up everywhere from L.A. to New York, and beyond.

Ross' ultra-realistic, painted renditions of iconic superheroes have made him a superstar. In the vein of such hit Alex Ross books such as Mythologies and Rough Justice, we are proud to present the ultimate collection of Alex Ross art from his extensive collaboration with Dynamite. Containing sketches, designs, layouts and pencils, interior work, covers, and a wealth of unpublished art. Collecting all of Alex's Dynamite covers and interior art in one complete hardcover volume, along with commentary throughout the book by Alex Ross himself, as well as special bonus material, this is a package not to be missed. A must-buy for Alex Ross' legion of fans!

(W) Various (A/CA) Jay Anacleto For over a quarter century, Jay Anacleto has taken pencil to some of the most iconic and sophisticated covers to grace the comics industry. For Dynamite Entertainment, Anacleto has tackled virtually every character in the company's library! Now, all of this incredible art is presented in one incredible hardcover collection, curated by the ancient master himself! * Vampirella * Red Sonja * Dejah Thoris * Chaos! Plus: Demons, wizards, monsters and superheroes! 191 pages of worlds and characters beyond imagining!

(A/CA) John Cassaday John Cassaday's gorgeously dynamic compositions are known the world over, both in and out of the comic book market. Now, for the first time ever, all of his incredible work for Dynamite Entertainment has been collected into a single work, The Dynamite Art Of John Cassaday. This volume includes colored covers, sketches, inks?some seen before, others appearing in print for the first time! Don't miss this chance to see Cassaday's amazing interpretations of James Bond, Red Sonja, Green Hornet, Sherlock Holmes, Zorro, The Lone Ranger and many, many more!

(A/CA) John Cassaday Signed by artist John Cassaday! John Cassaday's gorgeously dynamic compositions are known the world over, both in and out of the comic book market. Now, for the first time ever, all of his incredible work for Dynamite Entertainment has been collected into a single work, The Dynamite Art Of John Cassaday. This volume includes colored covers, sketches, inks?some seen before, others appearing in print for the first time! Don't miss this chance to see Cassaday's amazing interpretations of James Bond, Red Sonja, Green Hornet, Sherlock Holmes, Zorro, The Lone Ranger and many, many more!

(W/A/CA) Lucio Parrillo Remarked with a sketch and signature by Lucio Parillo! For the last decade, artist Lucio Parrillo has crafted some of the most incredible painted images ever seen in comics! For Dynamite Entertainment, Parriilo has painted the most iconic images of the most iconic characters in the company's library! Now, all of this incredible art is presented in one incredible hardcover collection! Red Sonja: From Barbarian to Queen! Vampirella: Drakulon and Beyond! John Carter, Dejah Thoris and Tarzan: From the Jungles of Earth to the Wastes of Barsoom! Plus: Zombies, Pirates and Chaos! 200 pages of beautiful women and horrific beasts! Also featuring select process and preliminary pieces of art from Parillo himself! Lucio Parrillo is an illustrator and painter who for the past 15 years has worked for the most reputable companies in the comics and games industry. He has painted many covers for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and Dynamite Entertainment. He has worked on trading cards and other game productions, including Magic the Gathering and Warcraft.

(W/A/CA) FromSoftware Return to the Lands Between? reunite the fractured world? reforge the Elden Ring! The two-volume Elden Ring: Official Art Book contains a plethora of artworks from the game's 'Lands Between' and its inhabitants in stunning oversized hardcover editions. Volume I features key art from the game's opening movie, concept and development art of the large open-world and claustrophobic dungeons, and the game's many characters and armors. This translated English art book contains the same content found in the Japanese edition.

(W/A/CA) FromSoftware Return to the Lands Between? reunite the fractured world? reforge the Elden Ring! The two-volume Elden Ring: Official Art Book contains a plethora of artworks from the game's 'Lands Between' and its inhabitants in stunning oversized hardcover editions. Volume II includes stunning art of the foes great and small that threaten to end the player's journey, the weapons used to slay them, and even a list of the many items found within the game? very useful for dedicated fans! This translated English art book contains the same content found in the Japanese edition.

EPILOGUE gathers fantastic artists from across the Middle East, and showcases original works drawn from both their international influences and their own cultures. Inside you'll find concept artists, illustrators, 3D artists, painters, and cartoonists from the fields of video games, animation, and film. EPILOGUE is an art gallery in a book, bursting with skill, passion, and dedication.

(W) Nate Piekos Award-winning comic book letterer and founder of Blambot.com NATE PIEKOS provides in-depth tips and techniques for modern digital comic book lettering. From creating your own lettering templates and developing design skills to crafting emotive dialogue and dynamic sound effects, PIEKOS offers a comprehensive look at what it means to build a lettering career in the comics industry today. Featuring a foreword by famed X-Men letterer TOM ORZECHOWSKI.

(W) Oliver Ledroit & Various (A/CA) Oliver Ledroit We are now certain: FAIRIES exist! Our world is made up of mysterious and elusive spirits: the Elves and the Faes. Once we accept this evidence, we still have to recognize them, approach them, and sometimes be wary of them? It took our illustrator all his dexterity to be able to approach them, sketch them, and give us this guide to the most remarka-ble Faes and Elves. The Fairy Universe offers the reader the keys to this magical and poetic world through hundreds of drawings by renowned artist Olivier Ledroit, spread over double-pages in stunning watercolor and pencil, with illuminating words by Olivier and Laurent Souill?. A MUST for illustration geeks!

(W/A) Thomas Romain & Various Discover the boundless creativity of a family passionate about artwork, where animator Thomas Romain adapts the drawings of his two young sons into beautiful watercolor illustrations. Family Traits features dozens of original character designs, creative commentary from both father & sons, rough concepts, bonus illustrations, and more.

(W/A/CA) Daniel Clowes Fantagraphics' latest Studio Edition turns the spotlight to the great Daniel Clowes, author of Ghost World, Patience, Wilson, David Boring, The Death Ray, Like a Velvet Glove Cast In Iron, and many other books. This collection features over 120 pages of exact facsimiles of the original art, at original size, to best showcase the artist's cartooning process. Curated by Clowes himself, this career overview collects raw original pages from the very beginning (1986's Lloyd Llewelyn) to his one-man anthology, Eightball and up through his best-selling 2016 graphic novel, Patience. Plus new covers, endpapers, notes and more by Clowes himself, including five pages of a never-before-published aborted graphic novel.

(W/A/CA) Mike McCarthy In 1995 Something Weird Video released filmmaker John Michael McCarthy's Elvis-obsessed auto-bio bump and grind cinematic oddity TEENAGE TUPELO, co-produced by exploitation king David F. Friedman. Memphis instrumental combo Impala provided the scintillating score set to the swaying rhythms of starlet D'Lana Tunnell, produced by legendary Sun records-era Roland Janes and released on Sympathy for the Record Industry. Now Fantagraphics Books unleashes this mammoth coffee table volume: a nudie cutie time capsule of art, essays, and reviews, along with photos of the beautiful starlets who appeared in the movie.