Best Selling Books by Colleen Doran

With tips from this how-to instruction guide, learn how to draw Manga characters from basic instruction to complete figures. This sketchbook contains tips, advice, and how-to instruction accompanied by plenty of blank pages for you to practice as you go.

A young girl is born the heir to an alien religious dynasty. Possessing the power to destroy worlds with her mind, Liana is under an assassination order from the government of her father''s home world. A foiled coup attempt results in a power vacuum that leaves the alien world without its treasure weapon. The aliens have no choice but to take Liana as their reluctant new Avatar. Only an angry slave and a small group of resistance fighters can free her -- and the universe -- from the dangers of her power.

Leaving the Earth is a dangerous business, and probably always will be. But in the long run, the greater danger is not leaving - something that legendary comics writer Warren Ellis makes vacuum-clear in this pair of suspense-filled space adventures, collected here for the first time in a single volume. In OCEAN, the acclaimed art team of Chris Sprouse and Karl Story joins Ellis for a journey to the research station Cold Harbor orbiting the Jovian moon Europa, where the discovery of ancient artifacts beneath the frozen crust sets off a power struggle that threatens to expand into a full-scale holocaust for all of humanity. In ORBITER, Ellis and renowned artist Colleen Doran investigate the mystery of the space shuttle Venture, whose disappearance in orbit effectively ended the United Statesquote manned space program. When Venture reappears ten years later with new instrumentation, new engines, and an outer covering of something very much like human skin, a team of specialists must discover where she and her one surviving crew member have been - and how sand from Mars got in her landing gear. Complete with Ellis''s trademark blend of canny characterization and sterling storytelling, OCEAN/ORBITER: THE DELUXE EDITION also features an afterword from the author and a special section of preliminary art and character designs from Sprouse, Doran, and cover artist Michael Golden.

"A benefit anthology featuring an all-star lineup of comic book creators, with all proceeds being donated to Ukrainian refugees."--

Liana discovers that she is an Avatar, a psychic conduit for her people, but the powers of the Avatar on her home planet are hindered by Liana''s, so the government of that world has set out for Earth to find Liana and kill her.