An inspiring collection of dark and macabre drawings and articles exploring the sketchbooks and artistic practices of 50 talented artists. Sketching and drawing are fundamental to creating great art; the simple doodle is often where the artist first brings their ideas and concepts to life. In Sketching from the Imagination: Dark Arts, we have gathered together fifty talented traditional and digital artists to showcase work from their sketchbooks, share inspiration, and give insight into how they create imaginative and dark illustrations. Featuring a range of artwork and artists from many fields, from concept design and animation to illustration and comic art, Sketching from the Imagination: Dark Arts is a collection of beautifully macabre sketches with plenty of useful tips and creative insights—an invaluable resource that will inspire artists of all abilities.

For Lieutenant Wilson Jericho, Hell is real: and it's in the sewers of the sprawling city Megalopolis. As an officer of the Sewer Police, he's responsible for ensuring the bowels of the city are kept running smoothly. Disgraced from his position above ground and now an officer in the Sewer Police, Lt. Jericho thinks he knows everything there is to know about what lies beneath. But scientist Sandra Yeatman is determined to discover the truth behind the legends, and something is threatening to crawl out and rip the city apart...

The continuing adventures of the world's first costumed crime fighter. This is the first collection of the Fred Fredericks' Mandrake The Magician Sunday comic strips. Offering a heady mix of action, adventure, high jinx and drama! Following Frederick's updating of Mandrake Welcome to Mandrake the Magician of the 1960s, hipper and cooler than his 1930s incarnation thanks to the art stylings of Fred Fredricks. And yet, both Fredericks and Mandrake's creator Lee Falk managed to land our top-hatted hero into some pretty outlandish and action packed adventures on this Earth and beyond! This volume includes the unwelcome return of Mandrake's arch enemy, The Cobra, the introduction of a sinister new crime syndicate called The Underworld and the creation of counter crime organization called Inter-Intel, headed up by Mandrake.

A stunning full-color bind-up of content from the amazing Phoenix comic. From humor to adventure to non-fiction to puzzles to the just plain awesome, this bind-up is a smorgasbord for everyone. Laughs, advenutres, thrills! Slug private detectives!Terrifying kittens!Intergalactic foes and evil penguins! The Phoenix Colossal Comics Collection: Volume One- is arriving on our shores from a top secret location. A collection of different comics content taken from the issues of The Phoenix, this bind-up pulls together different humorous, informative, action-packed, and brain-teasing stories into one mega-comic bind-up!

A fantastic, single-sided adult coloring book from Kerby Rosanes, the internationally bestselling artist behind Mythomorphia, Animorphia, and Imagimorphia. The perfect stocking stuffer gift for anyone who loves a coloring book challenge! A coloring book like you've never seen before-perfect for colored pencils, crayons, or markers! Fantomorphia is artist Kerby Rosanes's first single-sided coloring book, an amazing adult coloring book challenge featuring his trademark strange and super-detailed images, and perfect for coloring then posting on the wall or framing. Kerby works in intricately detailed black-and-white lines to create creatures, characters, patterns, and tiny elements to form massive compositions of mind-boggling complexity. The book invites readers to complete the drawings and find hidden treasures and creatures scattered throughout its pages. Bring your creativity to complete the breath-taking drawings and find hidden treasures and creatures scattered throughout the pages of Animorphia. Fantomorphia contains 19 intricate images of stunning fantastical creatures morphing and shapeshifting into Kerby's signature, breath-taking scenes. The world that he imagines will excite and transport drawers, as he brings this beautiful fantasyscape and its creatures to life.