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Comics Sketchbooks: The Private Worlds of Today's Most Creative Talents Paperback – Illustrated, September 7, 2012
| Steven Heller (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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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- Print length352 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherThames & Hudson
- Publication dateSeptember 7, 2012
- Dimensions8.8 x 1.3 x 11.7 inches
- ISBN-100500289948
- ISBN-13978-0500289945
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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
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,682,020 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,905 in Graphic Novel Anthologies (Books)
- #221,621 in Reference (Books)
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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/

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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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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Love the sketches.You can see how artist think in the moment.






