Crilley, Mark

Provides advice and tips on drawing in the Japanese manga style, including heads, faces, and features, body proportions, poses, movement, and clothing for typical youthful characters, adults, and children, settings, and other details.

Author and artist Mark Crilley presents a graphic novel on how to be an artist through the story of a young Mark learning to draw from his mentor, Becky. Features lessons on shading, negative space, creating compositions, and proportions among other topics.

"Brody wanted nothing to do with teenaged ghost Talia or her search for the Penny Murderer until a psychic vision revealed his ex-girlfriend Nicole as the killer's next target. Using the training he's received from a ghost samurai, Brody must race against the clock to save her, even as Nicole's new boyfriend uses his connections to threaten Brody's life. With time running out, Brody gets a lead that could be the key to the mystery, but following it means breaking ties with Talia, just when he needs her help to escape gangsters and the police"--Back cover.

"Everything has changed for Brody since teenaged ghost Talia entered his life. Now trained in the supernatural arts and strong in mind and body. Brody is trapped in a prison cell with just hours left before his ex-girlfriend is destined to be the Penny Murderer's next victim. All the sacrifices Brody has made have been leading up to this night, and even if he can manage to escape from prison, the race is on to locate the crime scene before the killer strikes"--Back cover.

Billy's double life--elementary school in Piffling, Indiana, and international monster killer--intensifies as he makes his first solo creatch-op in a Chinese mountain village.

Sixth-grader Akiko and her friends from the planet Smoo travel to the upside-down city of Gollarondo where an accident befalls Gax the robot and a search begins for all his missing pieces.

Akiko, Mr. Beeba, Spuckler, and Gax journey to Toog to help their friend Poog save his planet from destruction--whether he likes it or not.

Akiko and her friends reach the final stage of their mission to rescue Prince Froptoppit from the castle of Alia Rellapor.

Fifth-grader Akiko and her friends, Poog, Mr. Beeba, Gax, and Spuckler Boach, are chosen to represent the planet Smoo as intergalactic space patrollers, but must pass the grueling training at the Zarga Baffa Training Camp first.