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Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud 9780060976255
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.18The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication "You must read this book." - Neil Gaiman Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman,... -
Zot!: The Complete Black and White Collection: 1987-1991 by Scott McCloud
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.73Greatly influenced by the work of "Astro Boy" creator and 'God of Manga' Osamu Tezuka, McLoud created "Zot!" more than two decades ago at the tender age of 23, making it the first... -
Reinventing Comics: How Imagination And Technology Are Revolutionizing An Art Form by Scott McCloud
Booksplease Price: £19.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060953508Author Scott McCloudFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher... -
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud 9780060780944
Booksplease Price: £19.25"Magnificent! The best how-to manual ever published." - Kevin Kelly, Cool Tools Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a massive... -
Ex Libris by Matt Madden
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.48Ex Libris revolves around a character trapped in a room with nothing but a futon and a bookcase full of comics. As they peruse covers, read stories and fragments of stories, they begin to suspect... -
Unflattening by Nick Sousanis
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £18.76The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening... -
Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel by Paul Levitz
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.83Will Eisner (1917-2005) is universally considered the master of comics storytelling and is best known for his iconic comic strip The Spirit and for his seminal work A Contract With God. Considered... -
Comics and Language: Reimagining Critical Discourse on the Form by Hannah Miodrag 9781496802606
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48It has become an axiom in comic studies that ""comics is a language, not a genre."" But what exactly does that mean, and how is discourse on the form both aided and hindered by thinking of it in... -
Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists Hillary L. Chute 9780226099446
Booksplease Price: £29.46We are living in a golden age of cartoon art. Never before has graphic storytelling been so prominent or garnered such respect: critics and readers alike agree that contemporary cartoonists are... -
The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel Raina Telgemeier 9781338777215
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.38#1 New York Times bestselling cartoonists Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud team up for a one-of-a-kind friendship story about creativity and self-expression. Welcome to... -
Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults: A Collection of Critical Essays by Michelle Ann Abate 9781496818447
Booksplease Price: £29.86With contributions by: Eti Berland, Rebecca A. Brown, Christiane Buuck, Joanna C. Davis-McElligatt, Rachel Dean-Ruzicka, Karly Marie Grice, Mary Beth Hines, Krystal Howard, Aaron Kashtan, Michael L... -
Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults: A Collection of Critical Essays by Michelle Ann Abate 9781496811677
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £75.14One of the most significant transformations in literature for children and young adults during the last twenty years has been the resurgence of comics. Educators and librarians extol the benefits of... -
The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre by Liam Burke 9781496809704
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed... -
The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre by Liam Burke 9781628462036
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £75.14In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed... -
River of Ink Etienne Appert 9781643375618
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.80With grace, poetry, clarity, and expert knowledge, artist Etienne Appert brings us a book about the very origins of the art of illustration-what it means and why it exists. "Why do you draw?" A... -
Redrawing the Historical Past: History, Memory, and Multiethnic Graphic Novels by Martha J. Cutter 9780820352015
RRP: £107.95Booksplease Price: £95.30Redrawing the Historical Past examines how multiethnic graphic novels portray and revise U.S. history. This is the first collection to focus exclusively on the interplay of history and memory in... -
Redrawing the Historical Past: History, Memory, and Multiethnic Graphic Novels by Martha J. Cutter 9780820352008
RRP: £42.95Booksplease Price: £39.31Redrawing the Historical Past examines how multiethnic graphic novels portray and revise U.S. history. This is the first collection to focus exclusively on the interplay of history and memory in... -
Economix: How and Why Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work), in Words and Pictures by Michael Goodwin
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.65Stimulus: plans: good or bad? Jobs: can we afford them? Money: who's got it? Everybody's talking about the economy, but how can you evaluate what they're saying? How can we, the people, understand... -
Meanwhile (10th Anniversary Edition): Pick Any Path. 3,856 Story Possibilities by Jason Shiga
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Follow the tabs to create your own story in this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic novel! Celebrate 10 years of this completely original graphic novel take on a "choose your own adventure." A... -
Seconds: A Graphic Novel by Bryan Lee O'Malley 9781906838881
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.05The highly anticipated new standalone full-color graphic novel from Bryan Lee O'Malley, author and artist of the hugely bestselling Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series. Katie's got it pretty good... -
Making Nonfiction Comics: A Guide for Graphic Narrative Shay Sarah Mirk 9781419769276
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.44The definitive guide to writing, drawing, and publishing nonfiction comics from award-winning creators Shay Mirk and Eleri Harris-"abolsutely essential reading" (Nate Powell)Making Nonfiction Comics... -
The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue by Will Eisner 9780393061055
Booksplease Price: £32.74Will Eisner (1917-2005) saw himself as "a graphic witness reporting on life, death, heartbreak, and the never-ending struggle to prevail." The publication of A Contract With God when Eisner was... -
A Cat Story by Ursula Murray Husted
Booksplease Price: £11.74A vibrant, heartwarming graphic novel about two irresistible cat friends on a journey to find their forever home-a journey inspired by the magic of art and storytelling. Cilla and Betto are two... -
Perspective In Action by David Chelsea
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.29Using the graphic novel format, Perspective in Action features 33 easy-to-follow demonstrations to teach the major discoveries in perspective. Author and artist David Chelsea takes readers through... -
The 24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues: New Monologues Created During the Coronavirus Pandemic by The 24 Hour Plays
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.76Since 1995 The 24 Hour Plays have been responding to theatre in the moment. As the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic brought an end to live theatre in the USA and Europe, the company sprang to work to keep... -
How to Draw the World: Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Making of a Children's Classic Philip Nel 9780197777596
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.00A biography of the book that inspired Prince to adopt purple as his signature color, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Richard Powers to become a writer, and countless other creative people to become... -
Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture by Henry Jenkins 9780822327370
Booksplease Price: £46.92Hop on Pop showcases the work of a new generation of scholars-from fields such as media studies, literature, cinema, and cultural studies-whose writing has been informed by their ongoing involvement... -
Thoughtful Images: Illustrating Philosophy Through Art by Thomas E. Wartenberg
Booksplease Price: £63.73Thoughtful Images demonstrates that there is a rich tradition of illustrations of philosophy that originated in Ancient Greece, spread throughout Europe, thrived in twentieth century America, and... -
Comics and Stuff by Henry Jenkins
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44Considers how comics display our everyday stuff-junk drawers, bookshelves, attics-as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now For most of their history, comics were widely understood... -
Thoughtful Images: Illustrating Philosophy Through Art Thomas E. Wartenberg 9780197803080
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £25.19Thoughtful Images demonstrates that there is a rich tradition of illustrations of philosophy that originated in Ancient Greece, spread throughout Europe, thrived in twentieth century America, and... -
Botticelli's Apprentice Ursula Murray Husted 9780063157934
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.12This funny, empowering graphic novel from rising star Ursula Murray Husted is a gorgeously illustrated glimpse into the forgotten history of Renaissance Italy, following an ambitious young girl's... -
The Visual Language of Comics: Introduction to the Structure and Cognition of Sequential Images. by Neil Cohn
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £35.18Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporary society appear most prominently in comics. Despite this...