DREAMBOAT (The Frisky Chronicles)
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With nods to Chelsea Handler and “Eat Pray Love,” as well as a dash of David Sedaris, this 6,000+ word first installment of THE FRISKY CHRONICLES is a slightly wicked up-to-the-minute romp about successful romance in the electronic age. As a bonus, Frisky shares her tips on the way to attract the lover you are seeking. What Amazon readers are saying about THE FRISKY CHRONICLES: “The first thing I want to say is that this book is funny, and I mean really funny. The only complaint I had was that it ended too soon. I can’t wait for the next installment. Don’t skip the Author page — it is hysterical.” “Great to read and relax when you just want a short read that will make you smile. I will definitely be reading some of the other Frisky Chronicles soon!” “Frisky is ‘every woman’. She is also who every woman would like to be! We are privy to Ms. Dimplebuns’ version of Dear Abby which is a delight. With #1 read and loved I am waiting for #2 with anticipation!” Praise for THE FRISKY CHRONICLES “Sometimes salacious, sometimes silly, sometimes poignantly tender, and always entertaining, Frisky doesn’t disappoint as she puts her adventures on virtual paper for all the world to read. For anyone who wonders where the wild things are, Frisky tells it like it is in the world of online dating.” Anne Kelleher, author of A Once and Future Love and the Shadowlands trilogy. “Frisky Dimplebuns will make you laugh and cry – sometimes both at the same time! The Chronicles are funny, insightful and universal. I couldn’t read them fast enough. If you decide to follow Frisky on her sizzling adventures, you’re in for a great ride.” Prill Boyle, author of Defying Gravity and host of TV’s Ageless About the Author: Frisky Dimplebuns, the author, is a gorgeous woman of a certain age, now happily married to an amazing man who is very understanding about her need to express herself in print. She divides her time between her homes in Paris, London, and Santorini, with the occasional foray to Buenos Aires and the island of Bora Bora. An equestrienne in her youth, Frisky is now the lead dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet. Despite the demands from the Metropolitan Opera, she has not yet agreed to reprise her role as Carmen for next year’s season. But she might! As they say, “l’amour est un oiseau rebelle, que nul ne peut apprivoiser.” After last year’s ascent of Everest, and her loss of the Hope Diamond pendant at the summit, she has vowed to avoid mountain climbing for the next decade. Tall and slim (taller and slimmer all the time, and younger, too) she has thought of modeling, but is waiting until she is old enough. Frisky is very pleased to have made her fortune writing. Look for her continuing adventures in The Frisky Chronicles, including episodes like Stick Shift, Don Juan de Connecticut, and The Tilt of His Kilt. And never doubt that she will find love in the end. Just like you. |
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
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Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a massive comic book about comics, linking the medium to such diverse fields as media theory, movie criticism, and web design. In Reinventing Comics, McCloud took this to the next level, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are generated, read, and perceived today. Now, in Making Comics, McCloud focuses his analysis on the art form itself, exploring the creation of comics, from the broadest principles to the sharpest details (like how to accentuate a character’s facial muscles in order to form the emotion of disgust rather than the emotion of surprise.) And he does all of it in his inimitable voice and through his cartoon stand–in narrator, mixing dry humor and legitimate instruction. McCloud shows his reader how to master the human condition through word and image in a brilliantly minimalistic way. Comic book devotees as well as the most uninitiated will marvel at this journey into a once–underappreciated art form.
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Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics was published in 1993, just as “Comics Aren’t Just for Kids Anymore!” articles were starting to appear and graphic novels were making their way into the mainstream, and it quickly gave the newly respectable medium the theoretical and practical manifesto it needed. With his clear-eyed and approachable analysis–done using the same comics tools he was describing–McCloud quickly gave “sequential art” a language to understand itself. McCloud made the simplest of drawing decisions seem deep with artistic potential.
Thirteen years later, following the Internet evangelizing of Reinventing Comics, McCloud has returned with Making Comics.
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Designed as a craftsperson’s overview of the drawing and storytelling decisions and possibilities available to comics artists, covering everything from facial expressions and page layout to the choice of tools and story construction, Making Comics, like its predecessors, is also an eye-opening trip behind the scenes of art-making, fascinating for anyone reading comics as well as those making them. Get a sense of the range of his lessons by clicking through to the opening pages of his book, including his (illustrated, of course) table of contents (warning: large file, recommended for high-bandwidth users):
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Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life – Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters
Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life – Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters
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Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he’s got an ace plan for the best year ever, if only he can pull it off: With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school’s oppressive Code of Conduct. Chewing gum in class-5,000 points! Running in the hallway-10,000 points! Pulling the fire alarm-50,000 points! But when Rafe’s game starts to catch up with him, he’ll have to decide if winning is all that matters, or if he’s finally ready to face the rules, bullies, and truths he’s been avoiding.
Blockbuster author James Patterson delivers a genuinely hilarious-and surprisingly poignant-story of a wildly imaginative, one-of-kind kid that you won’t soon forget.
Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he’s got an ace plan for the best year ever, if only he can pull it off: With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school’s oppressive Code of Conduct. Chewing gum in class-5,000 points! Running in the hallway-10,000 points! Pulling the fire alarm-50,000 points! But when Rafe’s game starts to catch up with him, he’ll have to decide if winning is all that matters, or if he’s finally ready to face the rules, bullies, and truths he’s been avoiding.
Blockbuster author James Patterson delivers a genuinely hilarious-and surprisingly poignant-story of a wildly imaginative, one-of-kind kid that you won’t soon forget.
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Have you ever had anyone tell you to stay out of an argument because it doesn’t involve you? Do private disputes really stay private, or do they have a larger effect on the world around them? What if a domestic disturbance caused a ghostly disturbance?
Mike and Angie are just another couple on just another Friday Night date having just another argument. But this time it doesn’t stay between the two of them. This time their fighting stirs something in the nether world–something that threatens the entire city.
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Have you ever had anyone tell you to stay out of an argument because it doesn’t involve you? Do private disputes really stay private, or do they have a larger effect on the world around them? What if a domestic disturbance caused a ghostly disturbance?
Mike and Angie are just another couple on just another Friday Night date having just another argument. But this time it doesn’t stay between the two of them. This time their fighting stirs something in the nether world–something that threatens the entire city.
Only a lone wanderer can save them.
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Drawing Crime Noir: For Comics and Graphic Novels
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Crime Noir is the most sophisticated, exciting, and dangerous comic book genre around. It is the highly stylized, modern version of such classic 1950s films as “The Maltese Falcon” and “The Asphalt Jungle”. Modern crime noir is exploding in popularity with movies such as “Batman Begins” and graphic novels such as Frank Miller’s “Sin City”. This genre focuses on the mean streets of the city and its amoral characters. Picture windswept streets, deep shadowy figures, reckless woman, men without conscience, reluctant heroes, and boulevards of fear. It’s the desperation of ordinary men, and the loneliness of the action hero. “Drawing Crime Noir” teaches the aspiring artist how to use all of the latest techniques and principles to create the moody world of crime noir. Extensive instruction is offered in the use of shadows to create intense comic book moods and suspense. And there’s more: the costumes of noir – the trench coats and sunglasses of the nihilistic characters: the mobbed-up politicians on the take; and the hit men who keep order; the sexy women who would just as soon kill you as kiss you; techniques for creating dark, brooding, costumed action heroes; and how to turn an ordinary comic book scene into a crime noir scene and how to draw the weapons that the criminals use to make crime pay. Strong, cutting-edge imagery shows artists how to make crime pay. Superstar Christopher Hart explores a new genre. It is perfect for anyone interested in drawing for comic books or graphic novels.
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