Draw! comic books issue 5

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Written by David Avallone, Kevin Eastman. Art by Ben Bishop & Various. Cover by Kevin Eastman. New Story Arc. Books and Beastly in Hollywood! Our beleaguered cartoonist hero goes to Los Angeles to visit the set of the 'gritty' adaptation of his most famous creation, and chaos ensues. The second arc kicks off with a magical mystery tour through show business and Books' own heartbreaking past. 28 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $3.99.

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Written by David Avallone, Kevin Eastman. Art by Ben Bishop & Various. Cover by Ben Bishop. New Story Arc. Books and Beastly in Hollywood! Our beleaguered cartoonist hero goes to Los Angeles to visit the set of the 'gritty' adaptation of his most famous creation, and chaos ensues. The second arc kicks off with a magical mystery tour through show business and Books' own heartbreaking past. 28 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $3.99.

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Written by David Avallone, Kevin Eastman. Art by Ben Bishop & Various. Cover by Amanda Connor. New Story Arc. Books and Beastly in Hollywood! Our beleaguered cartoonist hero goes to Los Angeles to visit the set of the 'gritty' adaptation of his most famous creation, and chaos ensues. The second arc kicks off with a magical mystery tour through show business and Books' own heartbreaking past. 28 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $3.99.

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Cover by Jason Lutes. Untitled story, script and art by Jason Lutes; It is now December: in a scene foreshadowing a greater tragedy, a Jewish family openly celebrates Hanukkah; Elsewhere throughout the city, Christmas carols are sung in the streets and Kurt and Marthe spend their first night together; Marthe has to find a job. 28 pgs., B&W. $2.95. Cover price $2.95.

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Comic book version of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon character. Cover art by Harvey Eisenberg. Caught in the Act starring Quick Draw McGraw. Water, Water, Who's Got the Water? starring Quick Draw and Snagglepuss. Race Car Blues starring Augie Doggie. Red Riding Hood Caper starring Snooper and Blabber. School Craze starring Quick Draw McGraw. Tiger Daddy starring Augie Doggie. Bull's-Eye Shooter starring Quick Draw McGraw. The Lone Partner starring Quick Draw McGraw. Art throughout by Harvey Eisenberg. Beautiful Dreamer starring Quick Draw McGraw, art by Phil DeLara. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Written by Robin Furth and Peter David. Art by Jonathan Marks. Cover by Nimit Malavia. STEPHEN KING'S SMASH HIT FANTASY EPIC CONTINUES! Odetta Holmes and Detta Walker's chapter comes to a close with this powerful issue! In an epic shootout with the police, Roland fights for his life on the streets of New York! In the midst of the chaos, Odetta will discover the true depths of her powers, as a third personality emerges! 28 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $3.99.

Written by Robert Furth and Peter David. Art by Piotr Kowalski. Cover by Julian Totino Tedesco. EDDIE DEAN'S CHAPTER IN STEPHEN KING'S DARK FANTASY EPIC COMES TO A SHOCKING CONCLUSION! It's Eddie Dean versus the LOBSTROSITIES! Will he make it out alive? The Gunslinger comes face to face with the ghosts of his past! Plus: Who will be the next addition to the KA-TET?! 28 pages, full color. Parental Advisory Cover price $3.99.

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Written by Peter David and Robin Furth. Art by Piotr Kowalski. Cover by Julian Totino Tedesco. With magic doors appearing, his eyes changing color, strange voices in his head, and monstrous lobstrosities hungry for his flesh, can the drug-addled Eddie Dean survive his desperate mission to Miami? A bold new chapter comes to a chilling conclusion by writers Peter David (All-New X-Factor) and Robin Furth (The Dark Tower: A Complete Concordance), and artist Piotr Kowalski (Marvel Knights: Hulk)! 28 pages, full color. Parental Guidance Cover price $3.99.

Antarctic Press continues its series of "how-to-draw-manga" guidebooks! Ben Dunn, Fred Perry, Adam Warren, and Joe Wight continue to present a comprehensive guide in mastering the manga style and will emphasize layout in this issue. Each featured artist will have his own exclusive special comments. Some topics we will cover in the series are advanced figure study, costumes, mecha, comic storytelling and composition. If you don't get it... you'll regret it! b&w, 32pg Cover price $4.95.

Written by Robin Furth and Peter David. Art by Juanan Ramirez. Cover by Jay Anacleto. THE KEY LEADS THE WAY TO THE NEXT CHAPTER OF STEPHEN KING'S UNPARALLELED ADVENTURE! JAKE'S visions lead him to drastic action, bringing him ever closer to ROLAND'S KA-TET! EDDIE discovers the true nature of his abilities in Mid-World…but will they be enough to save Jake Chambers? Be here for the finale of THE SAILOR…and a time-travel twist that'll change the course of the Dark Tower series! 28 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $3.99.

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Written by David Cody Weiss. Art by Dennis Francis and Robert Miller. Part of Blackthorne's popular How to Draw series, featuring step-by-step instructions on how to draw Robotech characters and craft. This issue includes Mecha Mania, Part II; Veritech Fighter transformations; Dana Sterling; Zor Prime; Hoverbike and Hovercraft. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

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Written by Robin Furth and Peter David. Art by Jonathan Marks. Cover by Nimit Malavia. ODETTA HOLMES' FIRST CHAPTER IN STEPHEN KING'S DARK FANTASY EPIC COMES TO A DRAMATIC CONCLUSION! As the door to Earth closes, another opens to MID-WORLD. ODETTA HOLMES? DETTA WALKER? The Lady of Shadows embarks on a journey to discover who she really is! EDDIE DEAN and ROLAND DESCHAIN add one more to the ranks of their KA-TET! 28 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $3.99.

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How to Draw Comics (W/A/CA) Terry Moore Terry Moore's How To Draw series concludes with this final chapter on the craft of making comics. Everything from paper to Photoshop is discussed in detail, with Moore's own tips and templates revealed. For beginners and pros alike, this is a book every comic artist will find useful. Cover price $4.99.

Cover by Ray Dirgo. Stories and art by Don Perlin, Phil Mendez, Ray Dirgo, Ruth Simpson and Joe Gill. Adventures of Hanna-Barbera's Western hero Quick Draw McGraw, and his burro sidekick, Baba Looey. The invisible Kid Phantom steals the entire jail right from under Quick Draw 's enormous nose. Quick Draw suspects everyone in town of being the Killer of 1000 Faces. Plus nature facts about the lemming, with art by future Marvel legend Don Perlin. Who Stole the Jail?; Killer of 1000 Faces; The Welcoming Committee; Hiccups; The Fast Draw; The Nightmare; The Diaper Pin Kid; The Year of the Lemming; The Emptiest Gun in the West. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.15.

Cover art by Richard Sala. "My Father," script and art by Luc Giard; Four panels about a family and their relationships to head injuries. "The Somnambulist," script and art by Richard Sala; A man is hypnotized into committing robberies, but remembers nothing about it. "Priapic Alphabet," script and art by Carel Moiseiwitsch; Individual panels for each letter illustrated with an element of war. "There's More To Drawing These Comic Strips Than Meets The Eye!", script and art by David Collier; Much research, including phone surveys and focus groups, goes into producing a comic book. "The Gross Out Contest," script and pencils by David Abu Bacha, inks by Bernie Mireault; A young brother and sister try to gross each other out while their mother is out. "A Happy Ending Nightmare," script and art by Julie Doucet; Julie chews too much gum and can't talk to a cute boy. "Sexaholics Anonymous," script and art by Joe Matt; Joe orders a book from Sexaholics Anonymous and puts his relationship with Trish through the ringer. Palooka-Ville #1 ad. "Lullaby of Broadway 1991," script and art by Maurice Vellekoop; A young man goes out to clubs. "She Loved Me So Much," script and art by Luc Giard; A man misses his wife. 36 pgs., B&W. Cover price $3.75.

The masters contunue to reveal the secrets of the intricate manga style! Manga maestros Ben Dunn, David Hutchison, Rod Espinosa, and more show you how "You Can!" master tricky techniques with easy-to-follow, step-by-step lessons, tips, and insight! Now you can draw manga, the hottest art style in the universe. Cover price $4.95.

Draw!, the professional "how-to" make on comics, cartooning, and animation, celebrates its one-year anniversary with a bang in issue #5! Editor Mike Manley has again gathered a stellar line-up of top industry pros to share the tips and tricks of sequential art! This issue includes a step-by-step on producing Powers, the hit Image comic by Brian Bendis and Mike Oeming; penciling by Mike Wieringo (Tellos, Superman); and an inking demo by Mark McKenna (Marvel's Exiles and Detective)! Plus, the regular Draw! columnists return, featuring Bret Blevins with drawing figures in compositions, Paul Rivoche on design for comics and animation, Ande Parks (Green Arrow) with art supply reviews, and more! (TwoMorrow's Publishing) Magazine, 8x11, 88pg, PC $5.95 Cover price $5.95.

Story and art by Robert Acosta, Rod Espinosa, Fred Perry and Brian Denham. Fred Perry and the popular manga-style creators of Antarctic Press demonstrate how to create the manga-influenced art of 21st century comics. The second of the three body types: teen and athletic; choosing a focus point in dynamic poses; how the focus point determines the line of action and eyelines. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $4.95.

English Edition - Volume 5 - 1st printing. "Developing Shoujo Manga Techniques!" Fifth in the best-selling series! This volume shows the techniques used in manga for girls now so widely used today that they have come to define modern manga style. These techniques are indispensable for you to draw characters more realistically and pay close attention to backgrounds. This volume is a definitive compendium that reveals these techniques in extraordinary detail and precision. Accept no substitutes! This is the latest release in the official How to Draw series from Graphic-Sha! Softcover (with Dust Jacket), 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $18.99.

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English Edition - Volume 5 - 2nd and later printings. "Developing Shoujo Manga Techniques!" Fifth in the best-selling series! This volume shows the techniques used in manga for girls now so widely used today that they have come to define modern manga style. These techniques are indispensable for you to draw characters more realistically and pay close attention to backgrounds. This volume is a definitive compendium that reveals these techniques in extraordinary detail and precision. Accept no substitutes! This is the latest release in the official How to Draw series from Graphic-Sha! Softcover (with Dust Jacket), 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $18.99.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. "1929-1930!" By Frank King. Frank King's Gasoline Alley remains one of the truest chronicles of American domestic life, tracing the joys and heartbreaks of a typical middle class family from the giddy 1920s to the Great Depression to World War II and after. In volume 5 of the ongoing series, the Wallets and their friends continue their daily rounds: Uncle Walt and his friends play the stock market, a risky proposition on the eve of Depression; Walt also takes his wife Phyllis on an extended vacation to England; cousin Lora starts dating boys; and Skeezix, now ten years old, has his first serious case of puppy love after being entranced by the coquettish new neighborhood girl Sally. Award-winning cartoonist and designer Chris Ware will add a special treat to the volume: a dvd which shows select scenes from Frank King's home movies of the 1920s. Augmenting the already impressive photographs that have accompanied this classic comic strip reprint series, the DVD demonstrates King's protean artistic talent and the links between his own family life and that of his beloved cartoon characters. Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 9-in. x 7-in., 400 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $39.95.

DVD NOT INCLUDED - Volume 5 - 1st printing. "1929-1930!" By Frank King. Frank King's Gasoline Alley remains one of the truest chronicles of American domestic life, tracing the joys and heartbreaks of a typical middle class family from the giddy 1920s to the Great Depression to World War II and after. In volume 5 of the ongoing series, the Wallets and their friends continue their daily rounds: Uncle Walt and his friends play the stock market, a risky proposition on the eve of Depression; Walt also takes his wife Phyllis on an extended vacation to England; cousin Lora starts dating boys; and Skeezix, now ten years old, has his first serious case of puppy love after being entranced by the coquettish new neighborhood girl Sally. Award-winning cartoonist and designer Chris Ware will add a special treat to the volume: a dvd which shows select scenes from Frank King's home movies of the 1920s. Augmenting the already impressive photographs that have accompanied this classic comic strip reprint series, the DVD demonstrates King's protean artistic talent and the links between his own family life and that of his beloved cartoon characters. Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 9-in. x 7-in., 400 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $39.95.

Comics by David Mazzucchelli, Eric Drooker, Loustal and Fromental, Maurice Vellekoop, and Jacques Tardi. Mazzucchelli cover. 7.5-in. x 10-in.; part color, part black and white; 48 pages on white paper. Cover price $6.95.

Volume 5 - 1st prinitng. "The Basics of Portraying Action!" By Hikaru Hayashi, Go Office. A Previews Exclusive! If you're serious about learning to draw in the manga style, then the Ultimate Manga Lessons series from the creators of the How to Draw Manga series is for you! These informative volumes will take you from beginner to seasoned hand with step-by-step instructions from the pros. Volume 5 will teach you beginning dramatization techniques used by professional Japanese manga artists. English text. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 144 pages, B&W. Cover price $13.99.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. By Ben Dunn. Get all the bountiful benefit of Antarctic's How to Draw Manga series, now in a more portable, ready-to-use format! Antarctic Press brings you the collective experience of its stable of manga artists in this newly arranged edition. Every section presents a drawing lesson, with the final page set up like a sheet of blank bristol so you can practice the lesson wherever you are! Take your How to Draw on the road, in the air - anywhere! Volume 5 is the newest volume in the series, and Volume 3 will help you brush up on old lessons! Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., B&W. Cover price $12.95.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. This fifth volume of Various Drawings showcases a generous selection of private art and commissions, along with a smattering of previously published pieces, all created by Mark Schultz over the past two years. A wealth of sketches, preliminaries, studies and finished art, this new installment will appeal to longtime fans of Mark's work, as well as those discerning souls who seek only the best examples of modern imaginative illustration to add to their personal collections. Herein reside Hanna Dundee of the Xenozoic age, the bravos featured in the forthcoming Storms at Sea, a glorious 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea centerfold, and stranger vistas still. Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $19.95.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. "Tove Jannson: Book 5 of 6!" Story and art by Tove Jannson. Drawn & Quarterly's bestselling Moomin series has won the Harvey Award and been nominated for multiple Eisner Awards. This volume features the final strips drawn by Tove Jansson and written by her brother Lars for the London Evening News, before Lars took over both the art and writing. Discover the series that Neil Gaiman calls "A lost treasure now rediscovered; one of the sweetest, strangest comic strips ever drawn or written. A Surrealist masterpiece." Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 12-in., 100 pages, B&W. Cover price $19.95.

Volume 5 - 1st printing.

Drawn & Quarterly Showcase returns with a 5th volume featuring the work of some of the best new talents from across the globe. The series is hailed for its consistent quality and for the superior editorial vision of its short stories, volume after volume. More often than not, it is the first time the cartoonists have had the chance to work in full-color with twenty-five pages, and on such a wide-reaching visual platform. Artists featured include Anneli Furmark (Sweden), Amanda Vähämäki (Finland), and T. Edward Bak (USA), with Vähämäki providing the cover art.

Softcover, 112 pages, PC.

Cover price $19.95.

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Volume 5 - 1st printing. Includes Dupuy & Berberian's second full-length Mr. Jean story (not collected in Get A Life), plus short stories by Michel Rabagliati, Rutu Modan, R. Sikoryak, and an overview of Quebecois cartooning pioneer Albert Chartier. Covers and endpapers by Dupuy and Berberian. This edition won both the Eisner and Harvey awards! Softcover, 9 1/2-in. x 12-in., 192 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $29.95.

"Water Colour Sketching." Concise and explicit guides to art for profit or pleasure!

English Edition - Volume 5 - 1st printing. "Bishpujo Game Characters!" Volume 5 teaches how to create specific roles and personality traits as well as backgrounds and poster composition of Bishoujo (pretty girl) characters. Softcover, 156 pages, B&W. Cover price $19.99.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. "Illustrating Sports!" Whether on the baseball field, the soccer pitch, or at the bowling alley, manga characters engaged in sport need to be rendered realistically and accurately, and How To Draw Manga: Sketching Manga-Style - Illustrating Sports gives the aspiring or experienced manga artist all the techniques they need to create athletes on their field of play. Sports from figure skating to boxing and everything in-between are covered, drawn from rough sketches to finished piece to demonstrate for the reader how to create realistic athletes. Artists will see the human body from skeletal and muscular details to the complete body, showing how each piece of the body interacts to create dynamic, active figures. In addition to detailed artistic models, photo-references of athletes at play are given, showing artists how to translate from real life to artwork. An indispensable guide to creating athletic manga, How To Draw Manga: Sketching Manga-Style - Illustrating Sports belongs on every artist's shelf. Softcover, B&W. Cover price $29.99.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. Written by Gary Brodsky and Albert Occhino. This fifth volume of the popular series demonstrates the steadily reduced production values as the series went along.  Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 32 pages, B&W. Mature readers. Cover price $4.95.

Book 5 - "Animals" Illustrated by George Carlson. Softcover, 7" x 8", 12 pages, color.

Signed and numbered by Mark Schultz - Volume 5 - 1st printing. This fifth volume of Various Drawings showcases a generous selection of private art and commissions, along with a smattering of previously published pieces, all created by Mark Schultz over the past two years. A wealth of sketches, preliminaries, studies and finished art, this new installment will appeal to longtime fans of Mark's work, as well as those discerning souls who seek only the best examples of modern imaginative illustration to add to their personal collections. Herein reside Hanna Dundee of the Xenozoic age, the bravos featured in the forthcoming Storms at Sea, a glorious 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea centerfold, and stranger vistas still. Includes a dust jacket and a bonus signature plate. Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, B&W. NOTE: Limited to 800 copies. Cover price $34.95.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. "Rumbling!" Story and art by Kevin Huizenga. Kevin Huizenga, acclaimed author of Curses and Ganges, returns with his fifth installment of Or Else. Stories in this pocket-sized issue include an adaptation of a Giorgio Manganelli tale about a desolate world that is stricken with religious fanaticism and violence, a "special report" on household insects, a profile of a loquacious conversationalist, and an exploration of such important questions as "How are we spending our Tuesday?" Touted as one of the best new talents of his generation, Huizenga is renowned for his bursting creativity and incisive investigations of both the quotidian and the surreal. Softcover, 5-in. x 6-in., 40 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $4.95.