Collection: Art

Web-sling into action with a deluxe oversized hardcover art book chronicling the development of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 through never-before-seen concept art and intimate creator commentary.

This deluxe edition set includes an exclusive cover treatment, a decorative slipcase, and a folio enclosing a gallery-quality print.

Peter Parker and Miles Morales return for an exciting new adventure in the critically acclaimed Marvel's Spider-Man video game saga. As the inimitable web-heads swing, jump, and glide across Marvel's New York, iconic villains threaten to destroy their lives, their, city and the ones they love. Now readers can explore the creation of this dynamic new entry in the Spider-Man video game series--from unforgettable characters, extraordinary equipment, breathtaking locales, thrilling storyboards, and more--all accompanied by comments from the game's creative team!

Dark Horse Books and Marvel Games have joined forces to present The Art of Marvel's Spider-Man 2. This passionately designed set celebrates the art and artistry behind the wall-crawlers and their exploits, and provides fascinating insights to amaze any Spider-Fan!

Mix and match your very own RPG monster with this interactive, illustrated flip book creating fully functional creatures by piecing together heads, torsos, and legs so GMs have exciting new beasts to unleash!

Is your adventure party tired of the same old boring monsters? Instead of filling your next dungeon with zombies, flip through Düngeonmeister: The Random Monster Generator and create something brand-new.

With each page split into three separate sections (head, torso, and legs), this mix-and-match flip book assembles unique creatures with stats to match each of the beast's body parts. For instance, GMs can create:
-A zombie head kobold with spider legs giving you an unstoppable undead monstrosity that will chase your party across walls and ceilings
-A monster with a snake head and tentacles for legs making an enemy that's resistant to piercing damage with a venomous bite
-A dragon that's more than a dragon when you mix in gelatinous body and a giant's legs, turning your typical fire-breather into an oversized one that's resistant to bludgeoning and slashing

Fully compatible with 5E, this book is perfect for DMs looking for something functional and fun to help them fill out dungeons and encounters with interesting and challenging enemies.

Children young and old will delight in the artistic splendor of this illustrated nonfiction tale about artist Joseph Cornell, from celebrated picture book biographer Jeanette Winter.

Joseph Cornell loved to draw and paint and collect things. With these drawings and paintings and collected treasures, he made marvelous shadowboxes--wonderlands covered in glass. And who did he most like to share them with? Children, of course. For they noticed all the details and took in all the magic Mr. Cornell had created.

In this inspiring nonfiction picture book, Jeanette Winter has painted a moving portrait of a New York artist who always felt his work was best understood by children.

One Tough Dame: The Life and Career of Diana Rigg offers a sweeping portrait of the revered performer's life and career. Deemed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1994, Diana Rigg (1938-2020) initially found fame as super sleuth Mrs. Emma Peel in the 1960s BBC/ABC-TV espionage series, The Avengers. A classically trained and multi-award-winning thespian, Rigg is known for her diverse body of work -- from her big-screen debut in 1969 as Countess Teresa di Vincenzo, wife of James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, to her Tony Award-winning, leading role in Medea on Broadway, culminating with her Emmy-nominated portrayal as Lady Olenna Tyrell on the heralded small-screen gem, Game of Thrones.

This eclectic volume traces Rigg's career as a renowned star of television, film, and the stage. The author includes insights from rare, archived interviews, encompassing both video dialogues conducted by the University of Kent and Oxford Union. The meticulously curated archival material is further complemented by equally rare photos, and retrospections drawn from diverse media sources and hitherto unpublished accounts from the people who knew Rigg best, affording readers an unprecedented, all-encompassing glimpse into her private world.

With exclusive commentary from Rupert Macnee (son of Riggs's Avengers costar and dear friend Patrick Macnee); the show's stunt coordinator/director Ray Austin; actors Samuel West, Bernie Kopell, Barbara Barrie, Juliet Mills, John Schuck, and Damon Evans; director Bruce Beresford; and documentarian David Naylor, among others, One Tough Dame delivers an in-depth perspective of a beloved, brave, brilliant, and trailblazing actor.

Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters begins with a moment lifted from a young musician's dreams. Brian Bisesi, a guitarist barely out of his teens, is invited on stage to fill in for a missing member of the band backing blues legend Muddy Waters. This life-changing quirk of fate opens the door into a world of challenges and opportunities that Bisesi, an Italian American reared in the comforts of a New York City suburb, can barely imagine. Despite their differences, Bisesi and Waters hit it off, and what might have been a one-night stand turns into a career. From 1978 to 1980, Bisesi works for Waters as his road manager, bean-counter, and at times his confidant, while often sitting in with the band.

Bisesi's years with the band take him to Europe, Japan, Canada, and across the United States as Waters tours--and parties--with rock gods like Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, a Beatle, and the gamut of musicians who came of age with Waters and introduced a younger generation to the blues. In Out of the Blue, Bisesi captures it all: from the pranks and tensions among bluesmen enduring a hard life on the road, to observations about Waters's technique, his love of champagne and reefer, his eye for women, and his sometimes-acrid views of contemporary music. Bisesi has sharp insights into the ill-conceived management decisions that led to the dissolution of Waters's longest-serving band in June of 1980. This book will rivet, amuse, and occasionally infuriate blues aficionados. It is a raucous and intimate portrait of the blues scene at a pivotal moment in time that fascinates music historians and blues fans alike.

The Art of El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera takes fans behind the scenes of the hit Nickelodeon animated series. Presented bilingually in both English and Spanish, the book celebrates the series' Mexican roots and explores how the creators drew from their own lives in Mexico and the United States to inspire their sprawling superhero metropolis.

Created by Jorge R. Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua, El Tigre follows the adventures of thirteen-year-old Mexican superhero Manny Rivera who fights evil as masked warrior El Tigre. Featuring sketches and early designs of many characters and locations, including Miracle City, Manny Rivera, Frida Suarez, supervillain White Pantera, Puma Loco, and Plata Peligrosa.

Accompanied by interviews with Gutierrez, Equihua, and key animators and concept artists, The Art of El Tigre is the definitive archive of the award-winning cult classic cartoon.

El Arte de El Tigre: las aventuras de Manny Rivera, transporta a los fans detrás de las cámaras de la célebre serie de animación de Nickelodeon. Creada por Jorge R. Gutierrez y Sandra Equihua, El Tigre sigue las aventuras del superhéroe mexicano de trece años Manny Rivera, que luchará contra el mal enmascarado como el guerrero El Tigre. Cuenta con bocetos y los primeros diseños de personajes y lugares como la Ciudad Milagro, Manny Rivera, Frida Suarez, el supervillano White Pantera, Puma Loco y Plata Peligrosa; junto a entrevistas con Gutierrez, Equihua, jefes de animación y artistas conceptuales. El arte de El Tigre es el archivo definitivo del clásico de culto de dibujos animados ganador de tantos premios.

Presentado en una edición bilingüe inglés - español, el libro celebra las raíces mexicanas de la serie y explora cómo los creadores fueron dibujando sobre sus propias vidas en México y Estados Unidos, para inspirar su metrópolis de superhéroes en expansión.

A picture book that serves young readers as a lyrical love letter to henna, written by Middle East Book Award winner Marzieh Abbas and brilliantly illustrated by Anu Chouhan.

Henna is so much more than a form of temporary body art.

Henna is nature--seeds sprouted into shrubs, leaves kissed by tropical rain.

Henna is color--the orange of juicy mangoes, sun-kissed brown, or black as the feathers of crows.

Henna is fragrance--earthy and nutty, lemony and clove-y.

The intricate patterns of flowers, feathers, vines, and other symbols painted and stained onto skin has been a tradition in cultures all around the world for thousands of years. Beautiful and eye-catching, henna also carries the scents, textures, and colors of family and identity.

Turn back the clock with History Comics! In this volume we visit the Prohibition Era and see how the business of booze became a criminal enterprise!

In 1919, the United States ratified an amendment to the Constitution that outlawed the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol. As a hard-fought dream for a better world became federal law, society soon began facing an onslaught of new problems: clever bootleggers, corrupt enforcers, crowded prisons, and violent gangsters. Walk through the hidden hallway of a Jazz Age speakeasy to uncover the moral panic over alcohol and excess that we continue to grapple with today.

The Beginning Actor Series was created for elementary and middle school students as an introduction to acting. The introductory chapters on how to perform monologues and duet scenes are easy to read and give students a good background for performing. Each monologue and scene is short and easy to memorize. The selections allow for young students to begin comedic and dramatic acting with simple easy to read scenes and monologues.

A spellbinding coloring book featuring over fifty intricate illustrations from The Illuminated Tarot.

Step into the world of The Illuminated Tarot, an illustrated celebration of the varied history of tarot and its many forms. This coloring book brings artist Caitlin Keegan's bestselling tarot deck to new life, featuring black and white line drawings of each of the cards in the 53-card deck. The sturdy pages can handle colored pencils, crayons, or markers, and feature insight into the history of tarot, cartomancy, and playing cards throughout.

Color the illustration of each card as you read about its traditional meaning and symbolism, perhaps using the mindful experience as a meditative form of studying the tarot.

A dazzling insider's account of the contemporary art world and the stunning rise and fall of the charismatic American art dealer Inigo Philbrick, as seen through the eyes of his friend and fellow dealer

Orlando Whitfield and Inigo Philbrick met in 2006 at London's Goldsmiths University where they became best friends. By 2007 they had started I&O Fine Art.

Orlando would eventually set up his own gallery and watch as Inigo quickly immersed himself in a world of private jets and multimillion-dollar deals for major clients. Inigo seemed brilliant, but underneath the extravagant façade, his complicated financial schemes were unraveling. With debt, lawsuits, and court summonses piling up, Inigo went into a tailspin of lies and subterfuge. At around the same time, Orlando would himself experience a nervous breakdown and leave the art world for good. By 2019 things had spiraled enough out of control for Inigo to flee to the remote island nation of Vanuatu, 300 miles west of Fiji. Within a year, he was arrested by the FBI and extradited to America, where he was sentenced to seven years in prison for having committed more than $86 million in fraud.

All That Glitters is at once a shocking and compulsive story of ambition and downfall, a cautionary tale, and an intimate portrait of friendship and its loss.

SIX DRAMA DESK AWARD NOMINATIONS INCLUDING OUTSTANDING MUSICAL

WINNER: THE NOVA SCOTIA MASTERWORKS AWARD

WINNER: TORONTO CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS FOR BEST NEW MUSICAL & BEST DIRECTOR

WINNER: SEVEN THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA MERRITT AWARDS INCLUDING OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION

THE NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS PICK

TIME OUT NEW YORK CRITICS PICK

WINNER: HERALD ANGEL AWARD

WINNER: SCOTSMAN FRINGE FIRST AWARD

WINNER: 2019 BANK SA ADELAIDE FRINGE PICK

WINNER: BEST PRODUCTION CALGARY THEATRE CRITICS AWARD

Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story is a humorously dark folk tale woven together with a high-energy concert. This music/theatre hybrid starring international Klezmer sensation Ben Caplan is inspired by the true stories of Jewish Romanian refugees coming to Canada in 1908. It's about how to love after being broken by the horrors of war. It's about looking into the eyes of God.

Fourth edition of this popular guide, that has sold over 15,000 copies, updated and expanded to include the latest Ghibli productions: Earwig and the Witch (2020) and How Do You Live? (2023)

The animations of Japan's Studio Ghibli are among the most respected in the movie industry. Their delightful films rank alongside the most popular non-English language films ever made, with each new eagerly anticipated release a guaranteed box office hit. Yet this highly profitable studio has remained fiercely independent, producing a stream of imaginative and individual animations. The studio's founders, the late Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki, have created timeless masterpieces. Although their films are distinctly Japanese, their themes are universal: humanity, community and a love for the environment. No other film studio, animation or otherwise, comes close to matching Ghibli for pure cinematic experience.

Studio Ghibli examines all their major works including Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Grave of the Fireflies, My Neighbour Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Only Yesterday, Porco Rosso, Pom Poko, Whisper of the Heart, Princess Mononoke and Howl's Moving Castle, as well as the critically acclaimed Spirited Away and The Tale of Princess Kaguya. Odell and Le Blanc's informed analysis also considers Studio Ghibli features such as Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar-nominated final masterpiece The Wind Rises, When Marnie Was There and the recent co-productions, Ronja the Robber's Daughter and Red Turtle.

A groundbreaking reassessment that foregrounds Van Gogh's profound engagement with the industrial age while making his work newly relevant for our world today

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is most often portrayed as the consummate painter of nature whose work gained its strength from his direct encounters with the unspoiled landscape. Michael Lobel upends this commonplace view by showing how Van Gogh's pictures are inseparable from the modern industrial era in which the artist lived--from its factories and polluted skies to its coal mines and gasworks--and how his art drew upon waste and pollution for its subjects and even for the very materials out of which it was made. Lobel underscores how Van Gogh's engagement with the environmental realities of his time provides repeated forewarnings of the threats of climate change and ecological destruction we face today.

Van Gogh and the End of Nature offers a radical revisioning of nearly the full span of the artist's career, considering Van Gogh's artistic process, his choice of materials, and some of his most beloved and iconic pictures. Merging a timely sense of environmental urgency with bold new readings of the work of one of the world's most acclaimed artists, this book weaves together detailed historical research and perceptive analysis into an illuminating portrait of an artist and his changing world.

The complicated life and legacy of John Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and the principles that distinguished America's founding moment

John Trumbull (1756-1843) experienced the American Revolution firsthand--he served as aid to George Washington and Horatio Gates, was shot at, and was jailed as a spy. He made it his mission to record the war, giving visual form to what most citizens of the new United States thought: that they had brought into the world a great and unprecedented political experiment. His purpose, he wrote, was "to preserve and diffuse the memory of the noblest series of actions which have ever presented themselves in the history of man." Although Trumbull's contemporaries viewed him as a painter, Trumbull thought of himself as a historian.

Richard Brookhiser tells Trumbull's story of acclaim and recognition, a story complicated by provincialism, war, a messy personal life, and, ultimately, changing fashion. He shows how the artist's fifty-year project embodied the meaning of American exceptionalism and played a key role in defining the values of the new country. Trumbull depicted the story of self-rule in the modern world--a story as important and as contested today as it was 250 years ago.