Step inside the Lucasfilm art departments for the creation of fantastical worlds unforgettable characters & unimaginable creatures The Art of Star Wars The Force Awakens will take you there from the earliest gathering of artists & production designers at Lucasfilm headquarters in San Francisco to the fever pitch of production at Pinewood Studios to the conclusion of post-production at Industrial Light & Magic-all with unprecedented access Exclusive interviews with the entire creative team impart fascinating insights in bringing director J J Abrams's vision to life; unused blue sky concept art offers glimpses into roads not traveled Bursting with hundreds of stunning works of art including production paintings concept sketches storyboards blueprints & matte paintings this visual feast will delight Star Wars fans & cineastes for decades to come The Art of Star Wars The Force Awakens is the definitive expression of how the latest chapter in the Star Wars saga was dreamed into being ALSO AVAILABLE FROM ABRAMS IN AUTUMN 2016 The Making of Star Wars The Force Awakens by Mark Cotta Vaz Forewords by JJ Abrams & Kathleen Kennedy ISBN 978-1-4197-2022-2 ...

Star Wars The Force Awakens shattered box-office records as one of the highest-grossing films of all time & its eagerly awaited sequel Star Wars The Last Jedi is sure to do the same Written & directed by Rian Johnson (Looper The Brothers Bloom Brick) & production designed by Rick Heinrichs (Fargo The Big Lebowski The Nightmare Before Christmas Captain America The First Avenger) this chapter like every chapter before it owes its visual language & fully imagined cinematic landscape to an incomparable art department the Lucasfilm visualists The Art of Star Wars The Last Jedi explores their vision & illuminates their creative process in stunning detail Featuring concept art & costume sketches storyboards & blueprints fans will take a deep dive into the development of the fantastic worlds characters & creatures-both old & new-of The Last Jedi Featuring unforgettable art & exclusive interviews with the filmmakers this visual archive highlights moviemaking magic at its finest ...

The Celtic Pictish Anglo-Saxon & Viking peoples who inhabited the British Isles & Ireland from late prehistory to the Norman Conquest left a rich visual heritage whose influence continues to be felt This is the first book to present an illustrated overview of the early art of the British & Irish archipelago during one of the most formative periods in its history It explores the interaction between its inhabitants along with the formation of national & regional identities through the lens of visual culture Leading expert Michelle P Brown explains the historical context within which key artworks of the period were made & used ranging across works as diverse as the Book of Kells the Tara Brooch the Aberlemno Stones the Lindisfarne Gospels the Alfred Jewel & the Benedictional of St Ethelwold & examines the ways in which their complex imagery can be interpreted She also considers the impact of the art of this period upon the history of art in general helping to inform both the Carolingian renaissance the Romanesque & from the late nineteenth century the Arts & Crafts & Art Nouveau movements Fusing history art history archaeology & literary studies & fully illustrated throughout this is a ground-breaking guide to a fascinating & complex period in which northern Europe journeyed from late Antiquity into the Middle Ages ...

This book evokes the art of fifteenth- & sixteenth-century Northern Europe in all its richness & splendour The works of Van Eyck Bosch Bruegel Durer & other masters are considered within the larger context of a changing society in which church & state Protestant & Catholic man & woman artist & patron independent mercantile city & noble chivalric court all played a part Craig Harbison considers these & many other facets of the Renaissance world drawing them together into a unified narrative that illuminates the complexity & brilliance of the art & its times ...

Experts in the ten major Pulp genres from action Pulps to spicy Pulps & more chart for the first time the complete history of Pulp magazines—the stories & their writers the graphics & their artists & of course the publishers their market & readers Each chapter in the book which is illustrated with more than 400 examples of the best Pulp graphics (many from the editors’ collections—among the world’s largest) is organized in a clear & accessible way starting with an introductory overview of the genre followed by a selection of the best covers & interior graphics organized chronologically through the chapter All images are fully captioned (many are in essence "nutshell" histories in themselves) Two special features in each chapter focus on topics of particular interest (such as extended profiles of Daisy Bacon Pulp author & editor of Love Story the hugely successful romance Pulp & of Harry Steeger co-founder of Popular Publications in 1930 & originator of the " Shudder Pulp" genre) With an overall introduction on " The Birth of the Pulps" by Doug Ellis & with two additional chapters focusing on the great Pulp writers & the great Pulp artists The Art of the Pulps covers every aspect of this fascinating genre; it is the first definitive visual history of the Pulps About the Author Douglas Ellis co-founded & co-organizes the Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention For many years his Tattered Pages Press published the pulp fanzine Pulp Vault as well as other books on the pulps He was one of the authors of The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps & has edited several pulp anthologies including the Best of Adventure series His book Uncovered The Hidden Art Of The Girlie Pulps an in-depth study of the spicy pulps & their art was named Fore Word Magazine‘s 2003 Popular Culture Book of the Year In 2013 Robert Weinberg Bob Garcia & he collaborated on The Collectors’ Book of Virgil Finlay a collection of Finlay’s gorgeous art Ed Hulse is widely acknowledged as being one of the leading pulp experts He has edited the pulppopular culture journal Blood &N Thunder for many years & has authored a number of books including the great Blood &N Thunder Guide to the Pulps & a recent book on The Shadow He & Douglas Ellis have been friends for many years Bob Weinberg Weinberg grew up reading & then collecting the science-fiction magazines of the late 1950s & owned (Bob passed this year) one of the largest collections of such publications in the world When he discovered the single-character hero pulps like the Shadow & Doc Savage his fate was sealed Along with fellow collector Lohr Mc Kinstry he published the first index to such magazines The Hero-Pulp Index In 1978 his book about the history of Weird Tales magazine The Weird Tales Story won the World Fantasy Award He continued to write & edit books about the Pulps over the next twenty-five years His Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction & Fantasy Authors won the World Fantasy Award in 1988 It was also nominated for The Hugo Award (given by the World SF Convention) Weinberg also won the Lamont Award given every year by Pulpcon for work done in the Pulp field; the Sam Moskowitz Award for collecting Science Fiction (given by First Fandom) & a Special Award from the World SF Convention for his contributions to the SF field By the time Bob passed in summer 2016 he was owner of one of the world’s largest collection of Pulp magazines & was regarded as one of the leading experts on the genre F Paul Wilson (foreword) is an acclaimed author of sci-fi & horror thrillers many of which have been international bestsellers winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement (2009) Prometheus Award for Best Novel (2009 2004) World Horror Convention Grand Master Award (2005) & more Wilson helped define the Horror genre with his international bestseller The Keep (1981) & is perhaps best-known for his ‘ Repairman Jack’ series Born in New Jersey Wilson has authored more than 50 novels & short story collections ...

For over 40 years Vampirella has been the muse for many artists in the comic industry & beyond Dynamite Entertainment brings forth a veritable museum of fine art masterpieces collected in this hardcover volume! Featuring a spectacular cover by the legendary Milo Manara this tome contains a retrospective of artists who have contributed the most memorable imagery of Vampirella with such names as Jose Gonzalez Adam Hughes Dave Stevens Jim Silke Jae Lee Joe Jusko Amanda Conner Mark Texeira Mike Mignola Mike Mayhew Joe Quesada Bruce Timm Arthur Suydam Dan Brereton Michael Golden J Scott Campbell & many more ...

Since the 1970&s Vampirella has been known as the good-hearted bad girl of vampire lore Brought back to life once again by the creative minds at Dynamite she&s graced cover after cover with her piercing stare & iconic red outfit ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play He is both agent & weapon
- a critical line of defence for the Secretary General of the United Nations He does not even officially exist Acclaimed action star Wesley Snipes (Blade US Marshals) is Neil Shaw an American agent who must uncover an international plot to bring down the United Nations on the eve of a historic summit with China A group of murdered Chinese refugees is found in a container in the New York harbour setting off a bizarre & mysterious chain of events leading to the murder of the Chinese UN ambassador When Shaw is accused of the crime he must go undercover
- in effect vanish from his own life to solve the mystery & clear his name He can trust no one except a beautiful UN translator (Marie Matiko) who may hold the key to a global conspiracy of cataclysmic proportions

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Following the success of The Art of The Darkness Top Cow proudly presents The Art of Witchblade Art Book with pieces by all of the key artists who have worked on the series over it's 10 year history ...

Reggie Riot is no one’s idea of a cultural savior The latchkey child of a busy single mother he’s grown up to be a resentful slacker whose idea of high culture is getting stoned & admiring the graffiti in the alley where he scores his weed His mother however is not your average working parent She’s the head of a secret organization called Art Ops whose mission is protecting the artistic treasures of the world—which have a lot more life in them than a casual observer might realize Reggie has always shunned his mom’s high-culture scene but a devastating encounter with the shadowy forces menacing the world’s masterpieces has left him with a permanent expression of the chaotic power of art flowing through his very veins So when Art Ops itself suddenly vanishes without a trace leaving its final rescue— La Gioconda the Mona Lisa herself—out in the cold it’s up to Reggie & his motley crew—including a masked super-powered operative who writes sitcom scripts on spec a girls-just-wanna-have-fun ’80s music-video icon & a suburban clerk from a mall-punk clothing chain—to come to the rescue But do they have what it takes to stand up to the dark side of human creativity? From writer Shaun Simon (co-author of The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys with My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way) & artists Michael Allred (co-creator of i ZOMBIE) & Matt Brundage (The Spirit The New Adventures) comes ART OPS VOL 1 HOW TO START A RIOT collecting issues 1-5 of the ongoing VERTIGO series & featuring a special sketchbook section from Allred & Brundage Meet the Author Shaun Simon is a musician & comics writer With Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance he is writing the Dark Horse Comics series The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys He also wrote a short story in the VERTIGO CYAN anthology ART OPS is his first series Michael & Doc& Allred grew up in the 60s & 70s & was surrounded with the best in pop culture & a steady diet of music movies & comic books Allred first tasted success in comics with his wildly popular MADMAN series which is being developed as a live action film with filmmaker Robert Rodriguez His earlier work from GRAFIK MUZIK was turned into the cult hit movie G-Men from Hell directed by Christopher Coppola (featuring Robert Goulet as the Devil) Other work

Includes:: Red Rocket 7 his history of Rock & Roll told in the context of a sci-fi adventure story the Madman spin-off THE ATOMICS & his magnum opus THE GOLDEN PLATES where he&s illustrating the entire Book of Mormon He is the co-creatore of the Vertigo series i ZOMBIE soon to be a TV series on the CW

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