Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317445732
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
First published in 1961, this book explores the form of the comic alphabet. Whether through poems, prose or phonetics, the alphabet has become a way in which mankind has taken pleasure in playing with words and phrases. Indeed, approaches can vary significantly from the almost moronically humorous to the ingenious and genuinely witty and this book looks at the reasons how and why the comic alphabet came to possess the arguably sophisticated form in which people know it today.
Comic Alphabets
Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317445732
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
First published in 1961, this book explores the form of the comic alphabet. Whether through poems, prose or phonetics, the alphabet has become a way in which mankind has taken pleasure in playing with words and phrases. Indeed, approaches can vary significantly from the almost moronically humorous to the ingenious and genuinely witty and this book looks at the reasons how and why the comic alphabet came to possess the arguably sophisticated form in which people know it today.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317445732
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
First published in 1961, this book explores the form of the comic alphabet. Whether through poems, prose or phonetics, the alphabet has become a way in which mankind has taken pleasure in playing with words and phrases. Indeed, approaches can vary significantly from the almost moronically humorous to the ingenious and genuinely witty and this book looks at the reasons how and why the comic alphabet came to possess the arguably sophisticated form in which people know it today.
Lettering for the Comic Book
Author: Richard Starkings
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The Doomster's Monolithic Pocket Alphabet
Author: Theo Prasidis
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN: 1534307591
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Bongs, goats, amps, and a lot of naked nuns! In five decades of wretched existence, doom metal has evolved into a vast orchard of unearthly delights. Explore its unholy rites with THE DOOMSTERÍS MONOLITHIC POCKET ALPHABET, the definitive illustrated lexicon of all things doom. Or be doomed!
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN: 1534307591
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Bongs, goats, amps, and a lot of naked nuns! In five decades of wretched existence, doom metal has evolved into a vast orchard of unearthly delights. Explore its unholy rites with THE DOOMSTERÍS MONOLITHIC POCKET ALPHABET, the definitive illustrated lexicon of all things doom. Or be doomed!
Letters for Lucardo
Author: Noora Heikkilä
Publisher: Iron Circus Comics
ISBN: 1945820047
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Letters for Lucardo is the first erotic graphic novel in Noora Heikkilä's four-part series about the dangerous love between human and superhuman. Ed Fiedler is a common man. 61 years old and employed as a scribe in a royal palace, his most regular client is Lucardo von Gishaupt, a forever-young aristocrat . . . and member of the mysterious and revered Night Court. When the eternally 33-year-old Lucardo and the aging Ed develop feelings for one another, both are forced to contend with the culture shock of a mortal man's presence among the deathless, the perilous disapproval of the sitting Lord of the Night Court, and Ed's own ever-present mortality, threatening to bring an end to their romance in the blink of an everlasting eye.
Publisher: Iron Circus Comics
ISBN: 1945820047
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Letters for Lucardo is the first erotic graphic novel in Noora Heikkilä's four-part series about the dangerous love between human and superhuman. Ed Fiedler is a common man. 61 years old and employed as a scribe in a royal palace, his most regular client is Lucardo von Gishaupt, a forever-young aristocrat . . . and member of the mysterious and revered Night Court. When the eternally 33-year-old Lucardo and the aging Ed develop feelings for one another, both are forced to contend with the culture shock of a mortal man's presence among the deathless, the perilous disapproval of the sitting Lord of the Night Court, and Ed's own ever-present mortality, threatening to bring an end to their romance in the blink of an everlasting eye.
Spitalfields Life
Author: Gentle Author
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9781444703955
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
I am going to write every single day and tell you about my life here in Spitalfields at the heart of London... Drawing comparisons with Pepys, Mayhew and Dickens, the gentle author of Spitalfields Life has gained an extraordinary following in recent years, by writing hundreds of lively pen portraits of the infinite variety of people who live and work in the East End of London.
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9781444703955
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
I am going to write every single day and tell you about my life here in Spitalfields at the heart of London... Drawing comparisons with Pepys, Mayhew and Dickens, the gentle author of Spitalfields Life has gained an extraordinary following in recent years, by writing hundreds of lively pen portraits of the infinite variety of people who live and work in the East End of London.
Making Comics
Author: Scott McCloud
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780060780944
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Presents instructions for aspiring cartoonists on the art form's key techniques, sharing concise and accessible guidelines on such principles as capturing the human condition through words and images in a minimalist style.
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780060780944
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Presents instructions for aspiring cartoonists on the art form's key techniques, sharing concise and accessible guidelines on such principles as capturing the human condition through words and images in a minimalist style.
The Selected Works of Eric Partridge
Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317431588
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 2733
Book Description
This set reissues important selected works by Eric Partridge, covering the period from 1933 to 1968. Together, the books look at many and diverse aspects of language, focusing in particular on English. Included in the collection are a variety of insightful dictionaries and reference works that showcase some of Partridge’s best work. The books are creative, as well as practical, and will provide enjoyable reading for both scholars and the more general reader, who has an interest in language and linguistics.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317431588
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 2733
Book Description
This set reissues important selected works by Eric Partridge, covering the period from 1933 to 1968. Together, the books look at many and diverse aspects of language, focusing in particular on English. Included in the collection are a variety of insightful dictionaries and reference works that showcase some of Partridge’s best work. The books are creative, as well as practical, and will provide enjoyable reading for both scholars and the more general reader, who has an interest in language and linguistics.
Masters of Comic Book Art
Author: P. R. Garriock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780895450210
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780895450210
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Alphabet Compendium
Author: Nigel Sussman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692766477
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
This unique alphabet book features full-page, ultra-detailed, hand-drawn illustrations with an average of 100 items per letter for each of the 26 letters of the English alphabet. As envisioned by illustrator and muralist, Nigel Sussman, this book will provide hours of educational seek-and-find fun for art enthusiasts of all ages. There are an abundance of things to discover, from Aardvark to Zucchini!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692766477
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
This unique alphabet book features full-page, ultra-detailed, hand-drawn illustrations with an average of 100 items per letter for each of the 26 letters of the English alphabet. As envisioned by illustrator and muralist, Nigel Sussman, this book will provide hours of educational seek-and-find fun for art enthusiasts of all ages. There are an abundance of things to discover, from Aardvark to Zucchini!
Nineteenth-century women illustrators and cartoonists
Author: Joanna Devereux
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526161680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Nineteenth-century women illustrators and cartoonists provides an in-depth analysis of fifteen women illustrators of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Jemima Blackburn, Eleanor Vere Boyle, Marianne North, Amelia Francis Howard-Gibbon, Mary Ellen Edwards, Edith Hume, Alice Barber Stephens, Florence and Adelaide Claxton, Marie Duval, Amy Sawyer, Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, Pamela Colman Smith and Olive Allen Biller. The chapters consider these women’s illustrations in the areas of natural history, periodicals and books, as well as their cartoons and caricatures. Using diverse critical approaches, the volume brings to light the works and lives of these important women illustrators and challenges the hegemony of male illustrators and cartoonists in nineteenth-century visual and print culture.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526161680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Nineteenth-century women illustrators and cartoonists provides an in-depth analysis of fifteen women illustrators of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Jemima Blackburn, Eleanor Vere Boyle, Marianne North, Amelia Francis Howard-Gibbon, Mary Ellen Edwards, Edith Hume, Alice Barber Stephens, Florence and Adelaide Claxton, Marie Duval, Amy Sawyer, Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, Pamela Colman Smith and Olive Allen Biller. The chapters consider these women’s illustrations in the areas of natural history, periodicals and books, as well as their cartoons and caricatures. Using diverse critical approaches, the volume brings to light the works and lives of these important women illustrators and challenges the hegemony of male illustrators and cartoonists in nineteenth-century visual and print culture.