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All Genres, BooksBest Of The Legion Outpost - nick & dent Originally published in 1972 as the official newsletter of the Legion Fan Club the Legion Outpost soon became the premier Legion of Super-Heroes fanzine of the 1970s featuring contributions by fans, pros and soon-to-be pros. Launched at a time when the future of the Legion of Super-Heroes was in doubt the Legion Outpost was at the center of fan-based efforts to revive the title and was largely responsible for its rescue from obscurity leading to it becoming a runaway best-seller! This trade paperback collects the best material from the hard-to-find fanzine including rare interviews and articles from creators such as Dave Cockrum Cary Bates and Jim Shooter plus never-before-seen artwork by Cockrum Mike Grell Jimmy Janes and others! It also features a previously unpublished interview with Keith Giffen originally intended for the never-published Legion Outpost #11 plus other new material! And it sports a rarely-seen classic 1970s cover by Legion fan favorite artist Dave Cockrum! Modern Masters Vol. 8 Walt Simonson Sc Out of the back pages of Detective Comics came the surprise hit of 1973 Manhunter and its illustrator Walter Simonson! The series garnered awards and accolades and the artist quickly became a star sensation. Ten years later he cemented his name among the legends of the comic book field with his epic run on Thor. From Fantastic Four and X-Factor to Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars to Conan and Elric Simonson can handle any genre with ease and his stylized dynamic artwork is an influence on many of today's top artists. The latest volume in the Modern Masters series looks at his life and work and features an extensive career-spanning interview lavishly illustrated with rare and unpublished art from his files! Plus it features an enormous sketchbook section with some of the most amazing illustrations Walt has ever produced. One look and you'll agree - Walt Simonson is a true Modern Master! Love Hina Vol. 2 Novel What's this? ! A robot that looks exactly like Keitaro appears out of the blue at the Hinata House? ! Under vicious attack the tenants of the all girlsâ? dorm band together to fend off this out of control 'Mecha-Keitaro.' Meanwhile Motoko struggles to show off her special skills in an effort to impress her visiting sister Tsuruko. But her secret spell ends in disaster as Motoko ends up switching bodies with Kitsune! What will happen next . . . ? Key Selling Points: ? Successful series-the manga for Love Hina has sold over 430000 copies over the life of the series. ? Advertising on animeondvd animenewsnetwork newsarama and newgrounds-providing 2 million impressions ? Excellent anime exposure. There are 25 anime TV episodes a Christmas special Spring apecial and OVA. ? Black and white drawings on almost every page. ? The manga was voted best US Manga release at Anime Expo 2002. ? Bonus character profile pages. Lets Draw Manga Color TPB by John Ott & You Kuseno Look no further than Let's Draw Manga: Using Color for everything you'll need to add color to your manga! Inside you'll discover the nature of color and the best ways to add color to any of your drawings! Through step-by-step lessons you'll learn how to color line drawings using paint markers or your computer. Find out about other methods for coloring too and learn all about value hue saturation and the other color definition terminologies just like the pro's! Let's Draw Manga: Using Color also lets you pick up a quick education in lighting effects and atmosphere and how they affect color. Gain control over the use of color and you'll never look back! This is the digital age - time to draw your manga in color! |
