Creator: Daniel Tatarsky
Publication date: 2008-09-25
Dewey code: 741.652
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.66
Review The Eagle Annual of the Cutaways / Orion:
Publication date: 2008-05-15
RRP: £10.00
Price: £4.98
Review The Girls' Doodle Book (Buster Books) / Buster Books:
Publication date: 2008-10-30
RRP: £30.00
Price: £15.89
Review Chagall: Love and Exile / Allen Lane:
Publication date: 2008-09-26
Dewey code: 778
RRP: £30.00
Price: £18.00
Review Wisdom: 50 Unique and Original Portraits / Harry N Abrams:
Publication date: 2007-10
RRP: £19.95
Price: £9.97
Review Street Sketchbook (Street Graphics / Street Art) / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-04-16
Dewey code: 741.672
RRP: £24.95
Price: £14.44
Review 100 Years of Fashion Illustration / Laurence King Publishing:
Publication date: 1985-04-29
RRP: £3.99
Price: £0.01
Review How to Draw Anything / Clarion:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1997-06-06
Dewey code: 158
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.68
Review The Artist's Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self / Pan Books:With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan lead you through a comprehensive 12-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity. This book links creativity to spirituality by showing how to connect with the creative energies of the universe, and has, in the four years since its publication, spawned a remarkable number of support groups for artists dedicated to practising the exercises it contains. -Amazon. com.
Edition: 3rd Edition - Revised for 2008
Publication date: 2008-03-31
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.04
Review Banksy Locations and Tours: Revised and Updated for 2008: A Collection of Graffiti Locations and Photographs in London: Revised and Updated for 2008 / Shell Shock Publishing:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-05-05
Dewey code: 759.2911
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.79
Review Jack Vettriano: A Life / Pavilion Books:
Edition: 3Rev Ed
Publication date: 2001-11-05
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.00
Review The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Creator: Klaus Janson
Edition: New ed of 2 Revised ed
Publication date: 1997-05-16
RRP: £11.99
Price: £5.50
Review Batman: Dark Knight Returns (Batman) / Titan Books Ltd:If any comic has a claim to have truly reinvigorated the genre then The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller-known recently for his excellent Sin City series and, previously, for his superb rendering of the blind superhero Daredevil-is probably the supreme contender. Batman represented all that was wrong in comics and Miller set himself a tough task taking on the camp crusader and turning this laughable, innocuous children's cartoon character into a hero for our times. In his introduction the great Alan Moore (V for Vendetta, Swamp Thing, the arguably peerless Watchmen) argues that only someone of Miller's stature could have done this. Batman is a character known well beyond the confines of the comic world (as are his retinue) and so reinventing him, while keeping his limiting core essentials intact, was a huge task. Miller went far beyond the call of duty. The Dark Knight is a success on every level. Firstly it does keep the core elements of the Batman myth intact, with Robin, Alfred the butler, Commissioner Gordon and the old roster of villains, present yet brilliantly subverted. Secondly the artwork is fantastic-detailed, sometimes claustrophobic, psychotic. Lastly it's a great story: Gotham City is a hell on earth, streetgangs roam but there are no heroes. Decay is ubiquitous. [+]Where is a hero to save Gotham? It is 10 years since the last recorded sighting of the Batman. And things have got worse than ever. Bruce Wayne is close to being a broken man but something is keeping him sane: the need to see change and the belief that he can orchestrate some of that change. Batman is back. The Dark Knight has returned. Awesome. -Mark Thwaite.
Edition: Television tie-in edition
Publication date: 1990-05
Dewey code: 759.94
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.68
Review Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series / Penguin:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-11-09
Dewey code: 751.73
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.52
Review Wall and Piece / Century:
Publication date: 2006-09-04
RRP: £15.99
Price: £10.39
Review The Monster Book of Manga / Collins:
Publication date: 2005-11-03
Dewey code: 708
RRP: £20.00
Price: £11.56
Review Wall and Piece / Century:
Publication date: 2003-10-02
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.15
Review The Complete Maus / Penguin:
Publication date: 2001-06-30
Dewey code: 700
RRP: £24.95
Price: £15.68
Review The Art of Looking Sideways / Phaidon Press Ltd:Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways is an absolutely extraordinary and inexhaustible "guide to visual awareness", a virtually indescribable concoction of anecdotes, quotes, images and bizarre facts that offers a wonderfully twisted vision of the chaos of modern life. Fletcher is a renowned designer and art director and the joy of The Art of Looking Sideways lies in its beautiful design. Loosely arranged in 72 chapters with titles like "Colour", "Noise", "Chance", "Camouflage" and "Handedness", Fletcher's book, which he describes as "a journey without a destination", is "a collection of shards" that captures the sensory overload of a world that simply contains too much information. In one typical section, entitled "Civilization", the reader encounters six Polish flags designed to represent the world, a photograph of an anthropomorphic hand bag, Buzz Aldrin's bootprint on the moon, drawings of Stone Age pebbles, a painting of "Ireland-as seen from Wales" and a dizzying array of quotations and snippets of information, including the wise words of Marcus Aurelius, Stephen Jay and Gandhi's comment, "Western civilization? I think it would be a good idea". Fletcher's mastery of design mixes type, space, fonts, alphabets, colour and layout combined with a "jackdaw" eye for the strange and profound to produce a stunning book that cannot be read, but only experienced. -Jerry Brotton.
Publication date: 2000-04-14
Dewey code: 741
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.73
Review V for Vendetta / Titan Books Ltd:V for Vendetta is, like its author's later Watchmen, a landmark in comic-book writing. Alan Moore has led the field in intelligent, politically astute (if slightly paranoid), complex adult comic-book writing since the early 1980s. He began V back in 1981 and it constituted one of his first attempts (along with the criminally neglected but equally superb Miracleman) at writing an ongoing series. It is 1998 (which was the future back then!) and a Fascist government has taken over the UK. The only blot on its particular landscape is a lone terrorist who is systematically killing all the government personnel associated with a now destroyed secret concentration camp. Codename V is out for vengeance. and an awful lot more. V feels slightly dated like all past premonitions do. [+]The original series was black and white and that added to the grittiness of the feel while the colouring here in the graphic novel sometimes blurs David Lloyd's fine drawing. But these are small concerns. Skilfully plotted, V is an essential read for all those who love comics and the freedom, as a medium, they allow a writer as skilled as Moore. The graphic novel contains all the V series plus two additional stories concerning V that were originally considered "interludes". This edition also contains an essay from Moore dating from 1983 explaining the creation process. For any comic fan it's a must-have. -Mark Thwaite.
Publication date: 2008-10-02
Dewey code: 778
RRP: £20.00
Price: £9.00
Review Ray Mears Vanishing World / Hodder & Stoughton:
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