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Bucket List of an Idiot
Allen & Unwin 2012; US$ 18.17Brave or crazy? Dom Harvey proves that he's both by letting his friends and family set him a bucket list of mad tasks. more...
Animation: The Whole Story
Constable & Robinson 2012; US$ 5.82Professional animator Howard Beckerman has drawn them all: Popeye, Heckle & Jeckle, even Mickey Mouse. In Animation, he offers a road map to the complex art of making an animated feature. Vivid sketches, screen shots, and step-by-step illustrations show how to make a drawing come to life, create storyboards, use form and color, develop a soundtrack,... more...
Dog Trick or Cat Treat
ECW Press 2007; US$ 7.95The 60 best, funniest, most embarrassing photos of our four-legged friends dressed up for Halloween are collected in this hilarious gift book. No longer just for kids, trick-or-treating with pets is an increasingly common phenomenon, and readers may be in more...
Superhero Madness
F+W Media 2004; US$ 19.99Draw fearless heroes and ruthless villains! Awesome aliens, warriors, martial artists, monsters, robots and more are waiting for you to bring them to life on the pages of your sketchbook! Create creatures and characters that explode with energy and power! Let Superhero Madness show you: Drawing basics such as shading, poses and 3-D... more...
Selfish Pigs
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 10.00From the creator of The Book of Bunny Suicides comes the book you?ve been waiting for: Selfish Pigs . Filled with more than 90 pieces of line art depicting pigs being selfish, this is the must-have for pig-lovers and Riley fans. It's pigs?and they're being selfish. Horribly, nastily selfish. They drink, they smoke, they steal, they eat pork... more...
The Rise of the American Comics Artist
University Press of Mississippi 2010; US$ 28.00Starting in the mid-1980s, a talented set of comics artists changed the American comic-book industry forever by introducing adult sensibilities and aesthetic considerations into popular genres such as superhero comics and the newspaper strip. Frank MillerÃ?'s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Alan Moore and Dave GibbonsÃ?'s... more...
The Quay Brothers
University of Minnesota Press 2010; US$ 75.00This work is the first thorough analysis of the creative oeuvre of the Quay Brothers. Known for their animation shorts that rely on puppetry, miniatures, and stop-motion techniques, their fiercely idiosyncratic films are fertile fields for Suzanne Buchan's engaging descriptions and provocative insights into the Quays' art-and into the art of... more...
The Animated Film Encyclopedia
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 125.00In the course of its rich history, cinematic animation has developed from silent monochrome images to sound-filled shorts that ran theatrically with newsreels and adventure serials, and ultimately to prestigious feature films like Disney's Fantasia. This second edition of The Animated Film Encyclopedia: 1900-1979 (McFarland, 2000) is a comprehensive... more...
Animators of Film and Television
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 35.00In the words of Walt Disney, "Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive." Part biography, part history, part artistic commentary, this volume looks at several major figures in the field of animation and discusses how their contributions to the art of animation have affected the course of the industry--and in many cases,... more...
Not the Costello Memoirs
Hardie Grant Books 2008; US$ 7.50Praise for NOT THE COSTELLO MEMOIRS 'This is one of the hardest reviews I will write. John Howard has been the finest prime minister Australia has ever had ... but this is a brilliant, lucid and powerful historical portrait ... compelling and accurate insight into the man who should have been PM.' Janet Albrechtsen, The Australian. 'Uninspiring... more...









