cartoonists

Three weeks. Two sisters. One car. A true story.

Big changes are in store now that Moritaka and Akito have their own series in Shonen Jump. Hanging out with their favorite manga creators, hiring assistants, keeping track of the weekly reader surveys -- life as a professional manga artist is tough! Can these two survive the pressure?.

Personal identity and national politics combine in this memoir of the author's struggle to find herself in a rapidly changing Turkey of the 1980s and '90s.

Cartoonist Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, has a talent for mocking, criticizing, and exposing the foolishness of modern culture. This talent has resulted in financial success, critical acclaim, and the longest-running show in television history. Matt Groening and the Simpsons provides an in-depth and often humorous look at Groening’s childhood, his rise to fame, and his success as one of the most honored animators in the world.

In graphic novel form, Jimmy Gownley recalls his teenage years in school and how he became a cartoonist.

A collection of seventeen of Daniel Clowes' comics, his work about the history of cartooning, interviews, a biography of the cartoonist and a chronology of his work, and more, accompanied by annotations and critical commentary that explores the complexities of Clowes' art.

"Respected anthologist Leonard S. Marcus turns his literary microscope to the world of comics, which has lately morphed and matured at a furious pace. Powerful influences from manga to the movies to underground comix have influenced the thirteen artists and writers interviewed in these pages to create their own word-and-picture narratives. Here are their ... stories: true tales from the crucible of creative struggles that led each to become a master of one of today's most vibrant art forms. The book also contains an original graphic short on the common theme of "the city" from each of the artists, a mini-comic set in a cityscape of their choosing--present-day, historical, or imaginary"--Amazon.com.

Meet Charlie Chan Hock Chye. Now in his early 70s, Chan has been making comics in his native Singapore since 1954, when he was a boy of 16. As he looks back on his career over five decades, we see his stories unfold before us in a dazzling array of art styles and forms, their development mirroring the evolution in the political and social landscape of his homeland and of the comic book medium itself.

Explores the career of comic artist Bill Watterson, the creator of the popular strip "Calvin and Hobbes," focusing on his extensively private life and his unexpected retirement in 1995, after which he completely withdrew from public life.

Describes how two close friends Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created the comic book character known as Superman and how years later had to sue to gain their rights for payment in the production of Superman comic books and films after they had lived in poverty for decades. Illustrated.