Renowned manga artist and comics creator Camilla d'Errico's beginner's guide to drawing her signature Japanese-style characters. From comics to video games to contemporary fine art, the beautiful, wide-eyed-girl look of shoujo manga has infiltrated pop culture, and no artist's work today better exemplifies this trend than Camilla d'Errico's. In her first instructional guide, d'Errico reveals techniques for creating her emotive yet playful manga characters, with lessons on drawing basic body construction, capturing action, and creating animals, chibis, and mascots. Plus, she gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at her character design process, pointers on creating their own comics, and prompts for finishing her drawings. Pop Manga is both a celebration of creativity and an indispensible guide that is sure to appeal to manga diehards and aspiring artists alike.

Pop Manga: How to Draw the Coolest, Cutest Characters, Animals, Mascots, and More

Arts & Photography

D'Errico, Camilla

Martin, Stephen W.

Graphic Design

Watson/Guptill

Boy meets pen in this funny, concise, and touching picture book about maintaining friendship across great distances. Stewart may be a boy, and Craig may be a pen, but they are definitely best friends. The kind of friends who do everything together, who rely on each other, and who feel lost without each other . . . which is why it’s a catastrophe when Craig disappears! How can Stewart be a best friend if his best buddy is missing? The answer is certain to please anyone who’s ever had a favorite writing implement or a best friend.

Stewart's Best Pen

Children's Books

Humor

Clarion Books

This book reads Ernest Becker both as a prophet of modernity and as a sensitive observer of its decline. Situated within the disciplinary approach of ^

Decomposing Modernity: Ernest Becker's Images of Humanity at the End of an Age

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

University Press of America

An unexpected friendship forms between a girl and her pet rock in this charming story that’s perfect for fans of What Pet Should I Get? Charlotte has always really wanted a pet, so when her parents present her with one for her birthday she expects a cat, dog, or maybe a bird. Instead, she receives a rock. Rocks can't cuddle, fetch, or even help her eat her vegetables, but that doesn’t stop Charlotte from loving her rock as if he were real. If only he could love her back...or can he?

Charlotte and the Rock

Animals

Dial Books

<div>A&nbsp;girl's efforts to build&nbsp;a robot friend go&nbsp;comically&nbsp;awry when the robot attempts&nbsp;world domination in this witty metaphor for the ups and downs of friendship. &nbsp; Ever wish friendship came with an instruction manual? A resourceful youngster follows step-by-step directions for constructing a robot to be her friend. The instructions make it sound so simple! But they also caution that sometimes a friendship doesn't turn out as hoped for, as the girl discovers when her new friend unexpectedly unleashes an evil robot army on the city. Now she has to stop the robot and seriously reevaluate their friendship! In the end, the resilient heroine of thiscomical and clever tale not only saves the city, she finds a real and lasting friend where least expected. &nbsp;</div>

How to Make a Friend

Product Description 
Friendship is hard for Fluffy, a kitten so precious that anyone who looks at her explodes!\nMeet Fluffy—an adorable kitten. 
So adorable, in fact, that anyone who sees her will spontaneously explode into balls of sparkles and fireworks. KABOOM! Poof.\nPoor Fluffy doesn’t want anyone to get hurt, but everything she tries, even a bad haircut, just makes her cuter! So Fluffy runs away someplace no one can find her. Find out if there’s any hope for Fluffy in this funny and subversive story about self-acceptance and finding friendship in unlikely places. 
 Review 
* "Tavis’s explosion-filled illustrations, a smartly paced combination of snapshot vignettes and full spreads, portray Fluffy’s travails with comic deftness, assuring readers that her effect on others is all in good, albeit cracked, fun. And it’s a tribute to the authors’ storytelling skills that audiences will also be rooting for Fluffy’s happiness...Readers newly flexing their sense of transgressive humor should get a real bang out of this." ― 
Publishers Weekly, starred review\n* "A seriously funny and delightfully nonlethal outing." ― 
Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW 
 About the Author 
Stephen W. Martin is a writer on Frederator’s 
Bravest Warriors and the writer and director of many acclaimed short films. Stephen is also the author of several picture books, including 
Charlotte and the Rock and 
Fluffy McWhiskers Cuteness Explosion. He currently works as a story editor in film and comic books and lives with his wife in Los Angeles. Visit him at Stephen-W-Martin.com. \nDan Tavis is illustrator living in New Hampshire. He has been doodling ever since his first math class in elementary school! He is the illustrator of 
Common Critters and 
 Fluffy McWhiskers Cuteness Explosion, among other projects. Learn more at DanTavis.com.

Fluffy McWhiskers Cuteness Explosion

Margaret K. McElderry Books

The Idea Jar meets When I Draw a Panda in this hilarious picture book following a boy who recruits his talented friend to teach him how to draw!\nMax loves to draw, but he’s not very good at it. No, seriously, just look at some of his drawings. Ouch. So he asks his best friend, Eugene, for help. Working side by side, it’s pretty obvious there’s no hope for Max. Until Eugene has a brilliant idea, and they find a way to use Max’s unique talents to turn up the awesome and have some fun! A lot of fun!\nBrian Bigg’s hilarious illustrations join Stephen W. Martin’s conversational text to create a laugh-out-loud read about embracing your talent and creativity that budding artists everywhere will relate to!

I Can't Draw

Arts, Music & Photography

Nancy Spector, Monster Detective: The Case of the Missing Spot (A Graphic Novel) (Nancy Spector, Monster Detective, 1)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Little, Brown Ink

Intrepid eight-year-old detective Nancy Spector and her talking dog, Jinx, search high and low for an invisible dog in this laugh-a-minute, fast-paced graphic novel perfect for fans of&nbsp;Dungeon Critters&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Mighty Jack. The Invisible Man has a problem. His dog, Spot, is missing. Complicating matters, Spot is also invisible. So the Invisible Man turns to Nancy Spector for help. Nancy eagerly takes the case, and she and her grumpy best friend, a (visible) dog named Jinx, dive into the investigation. &nbsp; As they follow Spot's trail, they find themselves: <ul> <li>Riding dragons</li> <li>Searching the monster diner--because all dogs like hot dogs</li> <li>Fleeing from vicious chipmunk unicorns</li> <li>Shopping in a store that is a gelatinous candy cube named Bob</li> <li>&nbsp;And paying a visit to Nancy's vampire friend Eugene's hamster's funeral&nbsp;</li> </ul> Every time they think Spot is right around the corner, things get more and more confusing, but Nancy knows that to a great detective, there is no such thing as a bad clue. And Nancy&nbsp;knows&nbsp;she's a great detective. Now she just needs to crack the case. . . &nbsp;

For fans of The Boss Baby and Mustache Baby comes a laugh-out-loud picture book about quiet parents who unexpectedly bring home a baby that's a heavy metal sensation! The Mumfords are a quiet family. They live on a quiet street and enjoy quiet things. So imagine their surprise when they bring home...a Metal Baby! The Mumfords try their best to quiet his cries. But he just gets louder and louder. Soon he's rocking all day and all night. And he's attracting a lot of fans! The Mumfords are exhausted. Their quiet souls are crushed. Is there any way to put Metal Baby to sleep? Illustrator Brandon James Scott joins the author of Fluffy McWhiskers Cuteness Explosion and I Can't Draw to create this hilarious, hard-rocking romp of a picture book!

Metal Baby

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Books by Martin, Stephen W.

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Pop Manga: How to Draw the Coolest, Cutest Characters, Animals, Mascots, and More

Stewart's Best Pen

Decomposing Modernity: Ernest Becker's Images of Humanity at the End of an Age

Charlotte and the Rock

How to Make a Friend

Fluffy McWhiskers Cuteness Explosion

I Can't Draw

Nancy Spector, Monster Detective: The Case of the Missing Spot (A Graphic Novel) (Nancy Spector, Monster Detective, 1)

Nancy Spector, Monster Detective: The Case of the Missing Spot (A Graphic Novel) (Nancy Spector, Monster Detective, 1)

Metal Baby