New Releases by Mark Crilley

"Pam and Eliot must navigate the ups and downs of creating comics for their local newspaper, just as their careers start to take off in different directions"--

來自三十年前的情誼，美國插畫大師寫給台灣的情書── 「獻給台灣人民，你們無疑是世上最善良和慷慨的人之一」 來自異鄉的少年，首次踏出舒適圈， 在探索中一點一滴打破心中的隔閡， 最後，發現台灣深藏的溫暖與美好。 美國青少年保羅不情願地跟著哥哥來到台灣旅行， 但語言不通、飲食不合，處處讓他感到不自在， 還不如窩在沙發上打電動、吃麥當勞來得輕鬆有趣。 為了買遊戲機，保羅勉強起身，獨自出門， 穿過蜿蜒的小巷，伴隨著機車呼嘯而過， 眼前的一切都是那麼陌生，讓他感到無所適從。 更糟糕的是，手機竟然壞了，他徹底迷失在台灣！ 就在這時，一位熱心的台灣女孩佩靜出現了， 主動伸出援手，願意幫助保羅找到回家的路。 不過，佩靜還有任務在身，得幫媽媽把楊桃分送給親朋好友。 於是，保羅坐上佩靜的機車後座， 一場意想不到的台灣冒險就此展開！ 身為台灣人── 這本書會讓你重新燃起對台灣事物的熱情和共鳴， 有時候太過習慣，忘記了它們是多麼美麗和有趣。 本書特色 1.文化探索與交流：本書透過主角保羅的旅程，深入描繪台灣文化與日常生活。從廟宇、夜市到獨特的交通景象，生動刻劃出當地風情。以外國人的視角，令讀者重新發現台灣的魅力，燃起熱情與共鳴。 2.細膩的視覺呈現：作者馬克•克里利運用鉛筆線條和水彩風格，打造出細膩豐富的插圖，完美呈現台灣的街景與自然美景，堪稱一封獻給台灣的圖像情書。 3.成長與自我發現：本書呈現保羅在台灣旅程中的心理轉變，從抗拒到接受並欣賞異國文化，探索語言、飲食和社會習俗的過程，鼓勵讀者勇敢走出舒適圈，透過理解與包容實現個人成長。 愛台灣推薦 張雀芬｜彰化縣文化局局長 李貞慧｜閱讀推廣人 李衿綺｜臺北市優良教師（導師類） 洪敦明｜教育電臺《好好讀你》節目主持人 劉中薇｜作家‧知名編劇 蔡依橙｜素養教育工作坊 核心講師 賴嘉綾｜作家，繪本職人 各方讚譽 《迷蹤台灣》透過細膩的圖像與迷人的故事，巧妙交織出台灣的風土人情與隱約的神秘感，帶領讀者從外國人視角重新發現台灣的獨特魅力。這本書不僅是一場異國冒險，更是一段充滿驚喜的自我探索之旅，引導我們重新愛上這片土地。隨著情節深入，你會忍不住想親自踏出書頁、跟著 《迷蹤台灣》去旅行，真實體驗每一腳印的溫暖與奇妙，最終還能跟隨主角一起走出避免失敗的盲區，確保自己在人生的道路上不再迷失。——洪敦明（ 國立教育廣播電臺《好好讀你》節目主持人 ／《跟著圖書館去旅行》作者） 「青少年圍繞著有關夢想、恐懼和未來的對話，為這一場嘻笑中又帶點奇幻的轟動冒險，增添了真實感和深度。」——《出版人周刊》( Publishers Weekly ) 「故事真摯傳達了拓展文化視野的訊息，並配以類似鉛筆線條藝術和水彩畫的細膩插圖……這無疑是一封獻給台灣的圖像情書。」——《柯克斯評論》( Kirkus Reviews ) 「這是一部引人入勝、具有電影感的閱讀體驗，跨頁插圖美麗地捕捉了台灣的文化、風景、地標和建築……在幽默與對身份的深刻反思之間取得了平衡，最後強調的是透過新經驗找到自我成長的理念。」——《兒童圖書中心會刊》，星級評論 ( BCCB , starred review)

"A light-hearted middle grade graphic novel about a young boy's journey to make his dream of creating a superhero comic book a reality"--

THIS WASN'T PAUL'S IDEA. The last thing he's interested in is exploring new countries or experiencing anything that might be described as "cultural enrichment." But like it or not, he's stuck with his brother, Theo, for two weeks in Taiwan, a place that--while fascinating to Theo--holds no interest to Paul at all. While on a short trip to a local electronics store, Paul becomes hopelessly lost in Taiwan's twisting, narrow streets, and he has no choice but to explore this new environment in his quest to find his way back to Theo's apartment. In an unfamiliar place with no friends--and no GPS!--there's no telling what adventures he could happen upon. And who knows? Maybe it turns out he has friends in Taiwan, after all.

An aspiring young creator learns the fundamentals of visual storytelling from three comic book mentors in this charming illustrated tale—a graphic novel that teaches you how to turn your stories into comics! Acclaimed illustrator and graphic novelist Mark Crilley returns with a new approach to learning the essential elements of making comics. His easy-to-follow instruction about comic book art, design, and storytelling provides aspiring creators a one-of-a-kind how-to experience. In The Comic Book Lesson, you’ll meet Emily—an enthusiastic young comics fan who has a story she needs to tell. On her quest to turn that story into a comic book, Emily meets three helpful mentors who share their knowledge. Trudy, a high school student who works at the local comics shop, teaches Emily how to create expressive characters and how art can convey action and suspense. Madeline, a self-published manga artist, teaches Emily how to use panel composition and layout to tell a story visually and how to develop a comic from script to sketch to finished pages. Sophie, a professional graphic novelist, guides Emily through fine-tuning the details of dialogue, sequence, and pacing to lead readers through the story. Page by page, you’ll discover more about the events that drive Emily to create her comic book as her mentors teach her (and you!) about the fundamentals of visual narrative and comic book art. Each lesson builds on the previous one, guiding you through the steps of planning and creating your comic, with accompanying exercises you can try for yourself. Are you ready to start your comic book lesson today?

Discover the simple secrets to drawing amazing hands, from popular YouTube instructor Mark Crilley Whether you’re drawing superheroes, manga and anime characters, robots, highly detailed photorealistic figures or anything in between, hands can be the most challenging aspect of creating compelling characters that gesture, communicate, and truly come to life. In simple step-by-step lessons along with plenty of full-color examples, popular instructor and author Mark Crilley takes you from the basics to the finer points. All you need is paper, pencil, and eraser.

This One Summer meets The Edge of Seventeen in this poignant coming-of-age YA graphic novel about two childhood friends at a crossroads in their lives and art from the author of Mastering Manga. Megan and Cass have been joined at the brush for as long as they can remember. For years, while spending summers together at a lakeside cabin, they created art together, from sand to scribbles . . . to anything available. Then Cass moved away to New York. When Megan finally convinces her parents to let her spend a week in the city, too, it seems like Cass has completely changed. She has tattoos, every artist in the city knows her. She even eats chicken feet now! At least one thing has stayed the same: They still make their best art together. But when one girl betrays the other's trust on the eve of what is supposed to be their greatest artistic feat yet, can their friendship survive? Can their art?

From the best-selling artist and YouTube art instructor, this book features step-by-step lessons that show you how to draw professional-quality portraits, landscapes, travel sketches, and animals using only two ordinary pencils. Great art doesn't have to be expensive. For the cost of a regular graphite writing pencil and an equally ordinary black colored pencil, you can create drawings worthy of framing and displaying. In this straightforward, aspiring artist's guide to rendering a variety of popular subjects with only two pencils, artist and art instructor Mark Crilley presents a direct, approachable, and achievable method for drawing just about anything. The Two-Pencil Method breaks down Crilley's techniques across six chapters of five lessons each. In each lesson, you'll learn how the two-pencil method can add depth and shading, allowing you to create bold and distinctive drawings that go beyond mere sketchbook doodles. The book moves from a primer on drawing basics to step-by-step examples of still lifes, landscapes, animals, travel sketches, and portraits. With each chapter, Crilley's confident and encouraging voice and expert insights demonstrate how to achieve stunning artistic results from the simplest of art materials.

Master how to draw super tiny and adorable chibi characters! This book (and your fuzzy-costumed tour guide Mochy) will teach you everything you need to know about drawing chibis! From the word "short" in Japanese, this manga illustration style features cute characters with big heads, tiny bodies and adorably exaggerated facial expressions. Play with proportions to create highly stylized itty-bitty chibis or unusually tall ones, using their big eyes and giant personalities to convey animated emotions, from surprised and joyful to sad and mad. • 32 step-by-step lessons cover everything from proportions and poses to clothing and digital coloring. • Create every kind of chibi: boys, girls, pets, witches, fairies and anthropomorphic characters. • Learn how to turn your friends, family and yourself into adorable chibis! • Includes a chapter dedicated to making chibi crafts, such as phone cases, greeting cards and do-not-disturb signs. Show everyone how awesome your chibis are!

The world of manga (Japanese comics) has captured the imagination of artists, both aspiring and professional alike. Now best-selling artist and art instructor Mark Crilley presents the most complete look yet at the variety of creative options available in the world of manga. Crilley fills each chapter with gorgeous, original artwork created with a variety of tools (pencils, colored pencils, digital art, pen and ink, and more) and in a variety of manga-inspired styles. He pairs each piece with information on the materials used and the inspiration that led to its creation. Manga Art provides readers a one-of-a-kind chance to hear from one of the leading artists in the field of manga instruction, as he reveals the unlimited possibilities of manga and the creative secrets behind over 100 pieces of original, never-before-seen artwork.

Master the skills to create your very own manga! Expert manga artist Mark Crilley guides you to another level with this powered-up drawing book. Complete your Crilley collection with this third installation, which elevates the instruction to focus on drawing methods to help you create distinctive and detailed professional-level manga art. Through 40 in-depth step-by-step demonstrations not covered in other Mastering Manga books, Mark reveals his secrets for adding color, how to draw manga-style animals, ways to use photo reference, his preferred art supplies and how to fix character inconsistencies. The book is broken down into three sections: • Characters and Styles. Learn how to draw characters in every manga style--elegant Shojo, angular Dark Fantasy, action-packed Shonen and cute cartoon. Includes non-human characters like animal familiars (realistic or chibi) and aliens. Break-out lessons focus on anatomy, hairstyles and all genres of clothing, from classic anime uniforms to fantasy costuming. • Poses and Action. Make your characters bold, memorable and full of vitality. Get the most out of your poses by learning how to create natural, standing and dynamic running poses, plus sword fights, romantic Shojo interactions and stances for animals, manga monsters, chibi cuties and mech a robots. Advanced lessons include how to convey a sense of motion, tips on body language and how to effectively using foreshortening. • Finishing Touches. Elevate your art with Mark's professional instruction on completing your comic. These final lessons include page layouts, logo design, how to place a character in a setting, correctly using dialogue and speech bubbles, advanced costume design (fantasy armor, wings, and more) and how to create attention-grabbing cover art. "Manga is all about fresh concepts and fascinating characters. You've got ideas. You've invented new characters. There's a whole world waiting to see what you've come up with!" --Mark Crilley

Acclaimed author Mark Crilley tells his greatest tale yet in this intense supernatural thriller! After losing his job, his girlfriend, and his home, Brody learns that things can get even worse when he begins seeing a ghostly teenage girl watching him in the street. What he hopes is a hallucination proves all too real when the ghost tells him she needs his help hunting down a dangerous killer, and that he must undergo training from the spirit of a centuries-old samurai to unlock his hidden ghost talker powers. While Brody initially goes along only begrudgingly, the mission becomes terrifyingly personal when he learns that his ex-girlfriend is destined to be the killer's next victim. As he evades the police and his ex's criminal boyfriend, Brody enters a race against time to learn the killer's identity before the night of her foretold doom! "Mix a pinch of The Sixth Sense with a dash of The Karate Kid and a bit of The Crow, and you'll start to get a feel for Brody's Ghost." -Wired "The setting--an unidentified future city partially in ruins--is a masterpiece of drawing . . . The story is more than a match for the art." -Booklist

A captivating, step-by-step guide that teaches artists to draw and paint exact duplicates of common objects, rendered in the trompe l'oeil, hyperrealistic style of artist Mark Crilley's popular YouTube video series. Are You Up to the Challenge? With just watercolors, colored pencils, and white gouache, artist Mark Crilley takes you step-by-step through his process for producing stunning, hyperrealistic recreations of everyday items. Based on Crilley’s mega-popular “Realism Challenge” YouTube videos, The Realism Challenge contains thirty lessons demonstrating how to render mirror-like duplicates in the trompe l’oeil tradition of everything from shells, leaves, and candy bars to your very own still life arrangements. Each lesson builds off the previous one, as you’ll master essential artistic techniques like creating drop shadows, adding highlights, and building from light to dark. Learn the secrets of one of hyperrealism’s biggest stars. Come take . . . The Realism Challenge!

Everything has changed for Brody since teenaged ghost Talia entered his life. Now trained in the supernatural arts, strong in mind and body, and with Talia's murder solved, Brody has mere hours to stop her killer from making his ex-girlfriend Nicole the next victim. Everything Brody has worked for has been building up to this day. But first, he'll have to pull his greatest feat yet--convincing a furious Talia to help him escape from jail! Even if he manages that, the race is on save Nicole before her criminal boyfriend or the police find him!

Basic instructions and examples teach skills for drawing manga.

Brody gets a pivotal lead in his search for the Penny Murderer and his quest to save his ex-girlfriend's life! But to follow it, Brody has to break ties with his ghostly guide Talia, just when he needs her most! * From multiple Eisner nominee Mark Crilley (Akiko, Miki Falls)! * Brody's quest races toward its climax! * Bargain-priced 96-page digest!

Level UP and master more manga with YouTube's most popular art instructor, Mark Crilley! It's here! The highly anticipated follow-up to the best-selling Mastering Manga provides everything you need, regardless of your skill-level, to learn how to draw manga like a pro. Graphic novelist and YouTube's most popular art instructor Mark Crilley is back to lead you on your artistic journey. No matter what your experience, Mastering Manga 2 will have you creating manga in no time. You'll master the basics of facial and body proportions as your drawing skills increase to the next level. Clear and easy step-by-step instruction will walk you through the mechanics of how to draw manga. You'll learn to create characters in diverse settings and scenes, as well as a variety of styles. Lessons on background and perspective will help you pull it all together into a full manga story panel. More than 30 step-by-step demonstrations! • Proportion. Learn to draw all types of bodies, faces, ages and ethnicities in profile, from behind, and more, including how to turn a full-sized character into an adorable chibi. • Clothing and body language. Reveal your character's personality through hairstyles, expressions, clothing styles and accessories. • Useful poses. Tweak 16 classic manga poses to make them your own, or follow along with specific step-by-step demonstrations on drawing characters sitting, fighting, kissing and more. • Environments. Create all types of habitats and moods using forest elements, rain, and the effects of water and weather. • Anatomy of a manga panel. Learn how to choose the correct composition, background, depth and balance to create the most effective panel layout for your story. Grab a pencil and learn all the secrets needed to bring your manga story to life!

Former slacker Brody has vowed to uncover the identity of the serial killer known only as the "Penny Murderer." Will he complete his intense training to develop physical and psychic abilities before the mysterious killer strikes again? Collecting four stories from _MySpace Dark Horse Presents_, this one-shot issue continues the hilarious, poignant, thrilling tale of Brody's fight for justice. Love Harry Potter? Try _Brody's Ghost_! From the thirteen-time Eisner-nominated creator of _Akiko_!

Brody's fight training, under the tutelage of samurai ghost Kagemura, has toughened his body and honed his senses so finely that Brody can not only communicate with ghosts, but envision how and when someone dies. However, his new skills aren't quite powerful enough to uncover the whereabouts of the mysterious Penny Murderer. With the help of the ghost Talia, herself hoping to bring the killer to justice, Brody must result to desperate measures to find the killer before he strikes again—and Brody's received a psychic vision of his ex-girlfriend Nicole in the worst trouble imaginable… • By thirteen-time Eisner Award nominee Mark Crilley!

It's THE book on manga from YouTube's most popular art instruction Guru! There's more to manga than big, shiny eyes and funky hair. In these action-packed pages, graphic novelist Mark Crilley shows you step-by-step how to achieve an authentic manga style—from drawing faces and figures to laying out awesome, high-drama spreads. You'll learn how a few basic lines will help you place facial features in their proper locations and simple tricks for getting body proportions right. Plus, you'll find inspiration for infusing your work with expression, attitude and action. This is the book fans have been requesting for years, packed with expert tips on everything from hairstyles and clothing to word bubbles and sound effects, delivered in the same friendly, easy-to-follow style that has made Mark Crilley one of the "25 Most Subscribed to Gurus on YouTube." Take this opportunity to turn the characters and stories in your head into professional-quality art on the page! Packed with everything you need to make your first (or your best-ever) manga stories! • 30 step-by-step demonstrations showing how to draw faces and figures for a variety of ages and body types • Inspirational galleries featuring 101 eyes, 50 ways to draw hands, 40 hairstyles, 12 common expressions, 30 classic poses and more! • Tutorials to create a variety of realistic settings • Advanced lessons on backgrounds, inking, sequencing and layout options

Mastering Manga, How to Draw Manga Scenes is an excerpt from Mastering Manga With Mark Crilley. Learn the actual process manga professional Mark Crilley uses to create manga scenes, with lessons on layout sequences and panels, and intermediate to advanced lessons on word balloons and storytelling that will have you making manga like a pro!

Mastering Manga, How to Draw Manga Faces is an excerpt from Mastering Manga With Mark Crilley. True manga style is about more than big eyed characters, but Mark's lessons ensure that you can get them right, whether the character is facing you straight on, at an angle, or in profile. With lessons on hair styles for boys and girls, and different expressions, you'll get everything you need to know to begin drawing perfectly proportioned manga faces right away.

After months of intensive training, Billy is finally ready to go on his first solo creatch op for AFMEC (Allied Forces for the Management of Extraterritorial Creatches). Godzilla-like monsters are menacing the Chinese mountain village of Hua Qing. Billy is more than fired up to fend them off–until he discovers that bossy Ana García will be tagging along. Though Ana is no older than Billy, she’s a full-fledged AFMEC agent–and doesn’t hesitate to remind him of that fact. Whenever possible. At first, the mission is pretty straightforward. Billy and Ana help Hua Qing fight off the monsters, and life for the villagers goes back to normal. But Billy can’t shake the feeling that things in Hua Qing are not what they seem. Is Billy being paranoid? Or is something really bad about to go down? If Billy is right, then he, Ana, and the villagers of Hua Qing are in a whole lot of trouble.

Can love survive? It's winter, and a bitter chill of desperation has settled over Miki and Hiro. Far from home, the young couple treks through the frozen north, with Akuzu's powerful agents hot on their trail. Miki knows they are determined to tear her and Hiro apart. But she has different plans. With the help of an unlikely ally, Miki and Hiro endure a daring journey, battling freezing conditions and frightening forces just to be together. Miki is certain they can make it, hoping that love really does conquer all.

Second in an exciting new graphic-novel quartet for teenagers by renowned comic book artist Mark Crilley.