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Comics Sketchbooks: The Private Worlds of Today's Most Creative Talents Paperback – Illustrated, September 7, 2012

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From political cartoons to offbeat graphic stories, from the “funnies” to underground comics: a contemporary look at comic art from around the world in a volume packed with vibrant visuals, deft texts, and arresting human observation

From cartoons to graphic novels, from humor to superheroes, comics are the world’s most popular form of illustration. And, as in all forms of illustration, artists and designers experiment with visual ideas, image-and-word play, narrative sequencing, and stylistic flourishes through sketching. What we rarely see is the creative thinking―the doodling―that leads to fully formed visual ideas and stories. Comics Sketchbooks presents the private notebooks of eighty-two of the world’s most inventive, innovative, and successful artists alongside new talents and emerging illustrators. The artists have been selected by the world’s leading critic and most knowledgeable source in the field of graphic design and illustration, Steven Heller, who has had personal access to some of the most private and unseen material. Although there have been several comic-book compilations over the years, none has the visual excitement, insight, and mind-blowing creativity― and fun―of this one. 700 illustrations in color and black and white

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September 7, 2012
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8.8 x 1.3 x 11.7 inches
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0500289948
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978-0500289945
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"This beautifully organized book . . . makes me want to open my own sketchbook and draw."
― SchoolArts Magazine

About the Author

Steven Heller is co-chair of the MFA Design: Designer as Author program at the School of Visual Arts, New York. His many previous books include
Typographic Universe, New Modernist Type, and Scripts.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thames & Hudson; Illustrated edition (September 7, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0500289948
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0500289945
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.77 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.8 x 1.3 x 11.7 inches

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Steven Heller
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Steven Heller, author and editor of over 130 books on graphic design, satiric art and popular culture, is the co-founder and co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author program at the School of Visual Arts, New York. He is also co-founder of the MFA in Design Criticism, MFA in Interaction Design, MFA Social Documentary Film and MPS Branding programs. Although he does not hold an undergraduate or graduate degree he has devoted much of his career to fostering design education venues, opportunities and environments.
On the editorial side, for over 40 years he has been an art director for various underground and mainstream periodicals. For 33 years he was an art director at the New York Times (28 of them as senior art director New York Times Book Review). He currently writes the “Visuals” column for the Book Review and “Graphic Content” for the T-Style/The Moment blog (http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/author/steven-heller/). He is editor of AIGA VOICE: Online Journal of Design, a contributing editor to Print, EYE, and Baseline, and a frequent contributor to Metropolis and ID magazines. He contributes regularly to Design Observer and writes the DAILY HELLER blog for Print Magazine (http://blog.printmag.com/dailyheller/). His 135 books include "Design Literacy, " "Paul Rand," "Graphic Style" (with Seymour Chwast), "Stylepedia" (with Louise Fili), "The Design Entrepreneur" and "Design School Confidential" (both with Lita Talarico), "Iron Fists: Branding the Twentieth Century Totalitarian State", and the most recent, “Born Modern: The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig.”
He is the recipient of the 1999 AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement. His website is www.hellerbooks.com and his blog, The Daily Heller sponsored by Print magazine is http://imprint.printmag.com/daily-heller/
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Tracy White
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i'm a girl who grew up in NYC, doesn't drive, loves dark chocolate, and collects japanese stickers. i'm not very tall but i'm a big reader. growing up i always drew and i always told stories and now i do both together but not at the same time.
this is my first book. more of my work is here: http://www.traced.com/
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but other than that I'm happy with the book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 24, 2016

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The copy I received had a different cover from the one in the image (I'm assuming it was a different edition of the same thing), but other than that I'm happy with the book!

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Kent Scott

If you like comic strip and cartooning this is a look at some you may have never seen before

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 30, 2018

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Well worth it and bigger than I expected it took a few months to read through the whole book and big eye opener for some cartoonist I never heard of.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 3, 2015

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I am a fan of Steven Heller. He has done some outstanding books that I enjoyed a lot and still refer to on occasion. Most of them I have kept for my library. This is not one of them. I was surprised that it had so little value. Just a collection of the worst slobby sketches I've ever seen, devoid of anything. I find a lot of old sketches that are horribly messy but have a lot more life to them than any of these did. Not sure what he was thinking.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 18, 2012

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I found this book to be a really fun journey through the artful thoughts and creative ramblings of a wide assortment of comic artists. Some of these artists are well-known while others are coming into their own. A wonderful compilation!

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Can't stop looking at this book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 25, 2015

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Best book ever! wonderfully inspiring, great artists.

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Much to see

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 11, 2012

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This large 352-page paperback reminded me instantly of an earlier book called Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World's Great Graphic Designers . It's also not a coincident that the author is the same Steven Heller.

Comics Sketchbooks features the sketchbook pages of 82 artists. There are comic artists like Jim Steranko, animator Bill Plympton, illustrator Peter de Seve, political cartoonist Ann Telnaes, underground comic artist Robert Crumb and more.

Those are some of the artists I recognise so it's fun to discover a new bunch of them, each with a short profile provided.

A peek at their private sketches reveals the other side of these artists. The sketches show us what they think of and draw while they are unguarded. There are sketches of people on subways, comic ideas, doodles, some literally from dreams and a lot of other weird things. The sketches are rough, some are unfinished, and they all represent some random thought. The artists' hands are like mind seismographs.

The artists' websites are included at the back of the book.

It's a nice visual book for the adventurous reader to dive into.

(There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 13, 2013

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Very pleased with purchase. As described. Many thanks

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Fun book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 23, 2013

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Another well packed good condition secondhand book. A good fun thing to help our 15 year old budding artist with ideas.

Ching-Yun, Tseng

awsome

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 21, 2013

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Is a really great book that put many kinds of comics in a book.
Love the sketches.You can see how artist think in the moment.

Giulia

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Comincio precisando che prima di dare una valutazione penso sia doveroso da parte mia fare una premessa, ovvero che sono una studentessa, frequentante il secondo anno di Accademia delle arti figurative e digitali, Scuola Internazionale di Comics con indirizzo Illustrazione. Ho comprato questo libro, insieme ad altri, in quanto assegnatici dalla nostra prof di illustrazione grafica, da leggere prima dell'esame di giugno. Devo dire che mi è stato davvero utile, soprattutto perché mi ha aiutato nel confrontarmi con gli sketchbook di altri artisti, ponendo l'accento su cosa potessi migliorare nel mio e aiutandomi nel processo creativo e di ricerca delle idee.

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