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Book Synopsis Pros and (Comic) Cons by : Hope Nicholson
Download or read book Pros and (Comic) Cons written by Hope Nicholson and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the bestselling The Secret Loves of Geeks comes this brand-new anthology featuring comics and prose stories by cartoonists and professional geeks about the world of comic book conventions from the guests who've attended them across the world. Featuring stories that are funny, sad, sweet, embarrassing, and heartfelt; of a geek culture life that shapes us, encourages us, and exhausts us every summer. Featuring work by Brian Michael Bendis (The Man of Steel), Jim Zub (Wayward), Kieron Gillen (The Wicked and the Divine), Sina Grace (Iceman), and many more.
Download or read book The Pros of Cons written by Alison Cherry and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A drummer, a fanfic writer, and an amateur taxidermist walk into a convention center, and the weekend that unfolds will change all of their lives. Drummer Phoebe Byrd prides herself on being one of the guys, and she's ready to prove it by kicking all their butts in the snare solo competition at the Indoor Percussion Association Convention. Writer Vanessa Montoya-O'Callaghan has been looking forward to the WTFcon for months. Not just because of the panels and fanfiction readings but because WTFcon is where she'll finally meet Soleil, her internet girlfriend, for the first time. Taxidermy assistant Callie Buchannan might be good at scooping brains out of deer skulls, but that doesn't mean it's her passion. Since her parents' divorce, her taxidermist father only cares about his work, and assisting him at the World Taxidermy and Fish-Carving Championships is the only way Callie knows to connect with him. When a crazy mix-up in the hotel lobby brings the three girls together, they form an unlikely friendship against a chaotic background of cosplay, competition, and carcasses!
Book Synopsis The Secret Loves of Geeks by : Margaret Atwood
Download or read book The Secret Loves of Geeks written by Margaret Atwood and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the smash-hit The Secret Loves of Geek Girls comes this brand new anthology featuring comic and prose stories from cartoonists and professional geeks about their most intimate, heartbreaking, and inspiring tales of love, sex and, dating. Including creators of all genders, orientations, and cultural backgrounds. Featuring work by MARGARET ATWOOD (The Handmaid's Tale), GERARD WAY (Umbrella Academy), PATRICK ROTHFUSS (The Name of the Wind), DANA SIMPSON (Phoebe and Her Unicorn), GABBY RIVERA (America), HOPE LARSON, (Batgirl), CECIL CASTELLUCCI (Soupy Leaves Home), VALENTINE DE LANDRO (Bitch Planet), MARLEY ZARCONE (Shade), SFÉ R. MONSTER (Beyond: A queer comics anthology), AMY CHU (Wonder Woman), a cover by BECKY CLOONAN (Demo) and many more.
Book Synopsis Make Comics Like the Pros by : Greg Pak
Download or read book Make Comics Like the Pros written by Greg Pak and published by Watson-Guptill. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step-by-step guide to all aspects of comic book creation--from conceptualization to early drafts to marketing and promotion--written by two of the industry's most seasoned and successful pros. Discover the Secrets of Your Favorite Comic Book Creators Do you want to break into the comics industry? There are many creative roles available—writer, penciller, inker, colorist, letterer, editor, and more. Each creator serves a vital function in the production of sequential art at companies such as DC, Marvel, Image, and Valiant. In Make Comics Like the Pros, veteran comics creators Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente team up with a who’s who of the modern comic book scene to lead you step-by-step through the development of a comic. With these two fan-favorite writers as your guides, you’ll learn everything from script formatting to the importance of artistic collaboration to the best strategies for promoting and selling your own sequential art masterpiece. Pak and Van Lente even put their lessons into practice inside the pages of the book—pairing with Eisner Award–winning cartoonist Colleen Coover (Bandette) to produce the swashbuckling, adventure comic Swordmaids, and giving you front row seats to their creative process. Make Comics Like the Pros provides all the answers you’ve been seeking to take your comic book–making dreams all the way to professional-level reality.
Book Synopsis Comic-Con and the Business of Pop Culture: What the World’s Wildest Trade Show Can Tell Us About the Future of Entertainment by : Rob Salkowitz
Download or read book Comic-Con and the Business of Pop Culture: What the World’s Wildest Trade Show Can Tell Us About the Future of Entertainment written by Rob Salkowitz and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comic-Con phenomenon—and what it means for your business The annual trade show Comic-Con International isn’t just fun and games. According to award-winning business author and futurist Rob Salkowitz it’s a “massive focus group and marketing megaphone” for Hollywood—and in Comic-Con and the Business of Pop Culture, he examines the business of popular culture through the lens of Comic-Con. Salkowitz offers an entertaining and substantive look at the show, providing a close look at the comic-book and videogame industries’ expanding influence on marketing, merchandising, and the entertainment industry. Rob Salkowitz is founder and Principle Consultant for the communications firm MediaPlant, LLC.
Book Synopsis The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling by : Aubrey Sitterson
Download or read book The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling written by Aubrey Sitterson and published by Ten Speed Graphic. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the host of the critically acclaimed pro wrestling podcast Straight Shoot, this graphic novel history of wrestling features the key grapplers, matches, and promotions that shaped this beloved sport and form of entertainment. As a pop culture phenomenon, professional wrestling--with its heroic babyfaces and villainous heels performing suplexes and powerbombs in pursuit of championship gold--has conquered audiences in the United States and around the world. Now, writer/podcaster Aubrey Sitterson and illustrator Chris Moreno form a graphic novel tag team to present wrestling's complete illustrated history. Featuring legendary wrestlers like Bruno Sammartino, Hulk Hogan, and The Rock, and modern-day favorites like John Cena, Kenny Omega, and Sasha Banks, the book covers wrestling's progress from the carnival days of the Gold Dust Trio to the dominance of the WWF/WWE to today's diverse independent wrestling scene, and it spotlights wrestling's reach into Mexico/Puerto Rico (lucha libre), the U.K. (all-in), and Japan (puroresu).
Book Synopsis The Man of Steel by : Brian Michael Bendis
Download or read book The Man of Steel written by Brian Michael Bendis and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times best-selling writer Brian Michael Bendis comes a new story of Superman. The Last Son of Krypton is about to meet his home planet's nemesis! A remorseless killer called Rogol Zaar has arrived on Earth, bringing wide-scale death and destruction in his wake. Only Superman and his cousin, Supergirl, stand between Zaar and the completion of his mission--the complete annihilation of the Kryptonian race. But even as Kal-El and Kara struggle to contain this new existential threat, the world's greatest superhero faces a completely different challenge in his adopted home city of Metropolis, where Clark Kent still lives and works--but without his wife and son. The stage is set for a reckoning like nothing Superman has ever faced--and everything that matters to the Man of Steel hangs in the balance! Collects The Man of Steel #1-6 and stories from DC Nation #0 and Action Comics #1000.
Book Synopsis The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food by : Joseph Tychonievich
Download or read book The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food written by Joseph Tychonievich and published by Ten Speed Graphic. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first graphic novel guide to growing a successful raised bed vegetable garden, from planning, prepping, and planting, to troubleshooting, care, and harvesting. “A fun read packed with practical advice, it’s the perfect resource for new gardeners, guiding you through every step to plant, grow, and harvest a thriving and productive food garden.”—Joe Lamp’l, founder and creator of the Online Gardening Academy Like having your own personal gardening mentor at your side, The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food is the story of Mia, an eager young professional who wants to grow her own vegetables but doesn't know where to start, and George, her retired neighbor who loves gardening and walks her through each step of the process. Throughout the book, "cheat sheets" sum up George's key facts and techniques, providing a handy quick reference for anyone starting their first vegetable garden, including how to find the best location, which vegetables are easiest to grow, how to pick out the healthiest plants at the store, when (and when not) to water, how to protect your plants from pests, and what to do with extra produce if you grow too much. If you are a visual learner, beginning gardener, looking for something new, or have struggled to grow vegetables in the past, you'll find this unique illustrated format ideal because many gardening concepts--from proper planting techniques to building raised beds--are easier to grasp when presented visually, step by step. Easy and entertaining, The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food makes homegrown vegetables fun and achievable.
Book Synopsis The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances by : The Oatmeal
Download or read book The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances written by The Oatmeal and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not just a book about running. It's a book about cupcakes. It's a book about suffering. It's a book about gluttony, vanity, bliss, electrical storms, ranch dressing, and Godzilla. It's a book about all the terrible and wonderful reasons we wake up each day and propel our bodies through rain, shine, heaven, and hell. From #1 New York Times best-selling author, Matthew Inman, AKA The Oatmeal, comes this hilarious, beautiful, poignant collection of comics and stories about running, eating, and one cartoonist's reasons for jogging across mountains until his toenails fall off. Containing over 70 pages of never-before-seen material, including "A Lazy Cartoonist's Guide to Becoming a Runner" and "The Blerch's Guide to Dieting," this book also comes with Blerch race stickers.
Download or read book Baggywrinkles written by Lucy Bellwood and published by Toonhound Studios LLC. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the world of Baggywrinkles--a rollicking, educational survey of maritime lore, built around cartoonist Lucy Bellwood's time aboard tall ships. From the scourge of scurvy to the exhilaration of climbing the rigging for the first time, Lucy's comics bring the reader into a world of high seas history and informative adventure with "a sheer and unremitting sense of joy (Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier)."
Book Synopsis A Hundred Thousand Worlds by : Bob Proehl
Download or read book A Hundred Thousand Worlds written by Bob Proehl and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Kavalier & Clay for the Comic-Con Age, this is a bighearted, inventive, exuberant debut.” —Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten Thousand Saints "Proehl creates worlds within worlds within worlds, all of them full of surprise and wonder." —Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe Valerie Torrey took her son, Alex, and fled Los Angeles six years ago—leaving both her role on a cult sci-fi TV show and her costar husband after a tragedy blew their small family apart. Now Val must reunite nine-year-old Alex with his estranged father, so they set out on a road trip from New York, Val making appearances at comic book conventions along the way. As they travel west, encountering superheroes, monsters, time travelers, and robots, Val and Alex are drawn into the orbit of the comic-con regulars, from a hapless twentysomething illustrator to a brilliant corporate comics writer stuggling with her industry's old-school ways to a group of cosplay women who provide a chorus of knowing commentary. For Alex, this world is a magical place where fiction becomes reality, but as they get closer to their destination, he begins to realize that the story his mother is telling him about their journey might have a very different ending than he imagined. A knowing and affectionate portrait of the geeky pleasures of fandom, A Hundred Thousand Worlds is also a tribute to the fierce and complicated love between a mother and son—and to the way the stories we create come to shape us.
Download or read book Amadeus Cho written by Greg Pak and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get to know Cho! That's teen genius Amadeus Cho, the seventh smartest person in the world - but who's counting? When Cho is declared "Mastermind Excello" by an intelligence contest, his life suddenly spins out of control - and now he'll need all his smarts just to stay alive! Luckily, Cho - and his adorable coyote pup, Kirby - quickly meet and befriend two of the Marvel Universe's strongest powerhouses: Hercules and the Incredible Hulk! When Cho investigates his sister's fate, a complex web begins to unravel. Who has been manipulating him? And why? Can the seventh smartest person on the planet solve the riddle of his own past and future? Collecting material from AMAZING FANTASY (2004) #15; INCREDIBLE HULK (2000) #100; and INCREDIBLE HERCULES #126, #133, #135 and #137.
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Book Synopsis Superman: Son of Kal-El (2021-) #9 by : Tom Taylor
Download or read book Superman: Son of Kal-El (2021-) #9 written by Tom Taylor and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superman/Nightwing crossover part 2 of 2! Nightwing promised Clark Kent that while he’s off-planet, Nightwing would look after Clark’s son, Jon, as he tries to fill his father’s shoes as Superman. But with someone out there murdering superpowered people, is Nightwing in over his head? Read Nightwing #89 for part 1 of this crossover story!
Book Synopsis What The Hell Are They Thinking? by : Daniel Ravner
Download or read book What The Hell Are They Thinking? written by Daniel Ravner and published by Perspective. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What the Hell are They Thinking features 100 hotly debated topics that govern your life and covers politics, popular culture, sports, and more! It is the first book from multi-award-winning The Perspective
Download or read book Pros & Cons written by Kieran Meehan and published by Meehan Cartoons. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theft of Detective Stan Defoe's badge is the prelude to a train of events no one could have foreseen. His colleague and partner, District Attorney Gillian Jaggers, is close to securing the conviction of a notorious and vicious crime lord, Johann Reich. When she's required to make a critical decision that could affect the whole course of the trial, it becomes apparent that more than her career is at stake.
Book Synopsis The Complete Tales from the Con by : Brad J. Guigar
Download or read book The Complete Tales from the Con written by Brad J. Guigar and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TALES FROM THE CON is an uproarious take on the world of comic books and conventions. Fanboys, fangirls, cosplayers, retailers, volunteers and pros collide on the convention floor (and beyond) to prove that comic conventions are one part festival, two parts group therapy. Wrapping up a mega successful run of over four years online, where it has entertained hundreds of thousands of fans, THE COMPLETE TALES FROM THE CON collects every single strip ever published online, along with some unpublished strips as well! Written by Eisner-nominee BRAD GUIGAR (Evil Inc, How to Make Webcomics) and illustrated by CHRIS GIARRUSSO (G-Man, Mini Marvels) and SCOOT MCMAHON (Aw Yeah Comics), If you've ever been to a comic convention, you'll recognize the scenes in TALES FROM THE CON, the irreverent webcomic that has appeared on the Emerald City Comicon website since 2012. Collects the complete 4+ year run of TALES FROM THE CON strips along with bonus material.
