Faith Erin Hicks

Joss Whedon

Yishan Li

Moving to a new school and making new friends will create anxiety for any teenage girl. But when you're Buffy Summers, a vampire slayer - the Chosen One (with all that entails) - building a new life can be overwhelming. A group of nerdy vampires, shunned by their cooler brethren, decide to climb the vampire social ladder by taking out the Slayer. They play on Buffy's insecurities, wearing her down until she is full-on distracted by the mental warfare. But in addition to her Watcher, Giles, this Slayer has a couple of new friends, Willow and Xander, to cheer her on.

Freaks and Geeks

Naomi Novik

Sixteen-year-old atom manipulator Leah Taymore is sent to Liberty Vocational, a college for superheroes, where she must learn to master her powers as well as her personal life.

Will Super Villains be on the Final?

Lisi Harrison

A manga adaptation of "The Clique," in which the arrival of Claire Lyons, a new girl at Octavia Country Day, a private school in Westchester County, New York, upsets the order in the Clique, the social group that rules the school under the direction of Massie Block.

A Graphic Novel

The Clique

Matt Hawkins (Comic book writer)

Jenni Cheung (Comic book writer)

A couple embarks on a relationship that starts off as more of an arrangement, but ends with them falling in love--at a cost. Julia works three jobs and is trying to finish college in her early 20s. John is recently divorced, still stinging from that breakup and trying to start anew. Neither has ever done anything like this before and the emotional hurdles they face challenge what could be a perfect match.

Sugar

Rik Nicol

Tim Seelig (artist.)

Learn to Draw Manga Step by Step with Over 1000 Illustrations

Mastering the Art of Manga

Calissa Leigh

Gin is falsely accused of murder and gets sacrificed to a demon. However, when the demon realizes his innocence, he takes pity on him and flies Gin to Aluria, a land of mystical creatures. Gin seduced and horribly betrayed by one of the cruelest vampires named Kakale. And if things weren't bad enough... Kakale casts a spell so that Gin looks like Kakale and Kakale looks like Gin. This is very bad for Gin considering Kakale is a wanted criminal. Gin goes on a mission to find Kakale to get the spell reversed. He runs into Kakale's sexy vampire boy friend, Rakioul, who mistakes Gin for Kakale. Now Gin must pretend to be an evil vampire to trick Rakioul into leading him to the real Kakale. Of course, when you're pretending to be someone's lover there are certain duties involved... By the exceptional artist of Spirit Marked!

The Aluria Chronicles

If you have always wanted to draw manga but weren't sure how to begin, this fun and simple step-by-step book will help kick-start your comic-drawing journey. Learn how to draw boys, girls and creatures (ordinary and extraordinary) in the manga style. Starting with basic shapes, professional manga artist Yishan Li shows how easy it is to turn circles, rectangles, squares and ovals into teens, kids, witches, wizards, monsters, animals and much more. Professional manga art from well-known comic creator Yishan LiOver 130 step-by-step drawings Easy method with great results.

In Simple Steps

How to Draw: Manga

Book and CD combine to provide a guide to shoujo manga--a comic art about teenage girls, aimed at a teenage-girl audience--including background scenes, speech balloons, color, accessories, tones, and affects, as well as Photoshop and Illustrator templates. Original.

Everything You Need to Create Your Own Shoujo Manga Comics

Shoujo Art Studio

Anna Southgate

There is no doubt about it. Manga and anime have gone from a Japanese art style to a cultural phenomenon. A break down of the art of manga is provided, giving the artist the opportunity to master it piece by piece. The text focuses on the mastery of drawing faces and bodies. With step-by-step instructions and great tips on the best tools of the trade, aspiring artists will be drawing manga in no time.

Drawing Manga Faces and Bodies

A guide to drawing manga for artists of all skill levels offers step-by-step illustrations for pencil-drawing, inking, and coloring techniques and explains how such new technology as Adobe Photoshop can be used to create manga artworks.

Techniques for Drawing, Inking and Colouring

Massive Manga

Kick off your manga journey with bestselling author Yishan Li!Draw 20 dynamic manga boys and girls in just 8 easy stages. Bring to life 20 characterful manga girls and boys in just a few simple steps, with expert comic book and manga artist, Yishan Li. Choose from a wide range of characters, including a spell-casting sorcerer, flying angel, running schoolgirl and flamboyant pop star, in a wide range of dynamic poses, all full of personality and style. Each one is developed in 8 easy stages from a rough sketch of the basic shapes through to the finished, coloured drawing, making this book suitable for adults and children of all ages and abilities. With its easy-to-follow landscape format you can watch the stages build across the page and then recreate them with ease. The book contains material previously published in How to Draw Manga Boys, 2015, and How to Draw Manga Girls, 2015.

In Easy Steps

Draw 20: Manga

Matt Hawkins

Swing, Volume 5

500 Manga Characters is the biggest collection of manga clip art ever collected on one disc. Now stunning artwork can be created quickly and easily using this vast collection of hi-res (300dpi) JPEG images that are ready to use in any project. The book accompanying the disc teaches how to use professional coloring techniques, add figures to backgrounds, combine them into a text document and even create original manga stories! An enormous range of characters are included, from the heroic, dramatic, and historical to the comedic. There are also aliens, villains, monsters, and giant mecha robots. 500 Manga Characters is perfect for any designer or manga fan looking to create amazing artwork without learning to draw. All illustrations are royalty-free and are also supplied as black outlines, offering endless coloring possibilities. The book includes a complete illustrated listing of all the images on the CD. These criteria include: pose, setting, mood, aspect, appearance, expression, characteristics, and physical appearance.

500 Manga Characters

Student's manga cookbook

Learn to create and color your own manga characters! Massive Manga shows you step by step how to bring your ideas to life on paper. Learn by practicing the skills needed for drawing a wide range of manga in a huge variety of hairstyles, faces, and clothing, as well as animals, mechas, weapons, and vehicles. Each subject has a chapter of its own in which you’ll find line-by-line instructions and tons of designs. From teens to tech, cuddly pups to dangerous dragons, you’ll find them all here in these pages. Step-by-step drawings in pencil, ink, and color show you how to draw bodies, faces, eyes, hair, hands, and feet across a range of human and fantasy creations. Learn scores of hairstyles, facial expressions, hand gestures, and body poses. To complete your scenes, you’ll learn how to draw accessories and gadgets, weapons, vehicles, and so much more!

How to Draw Characters, Animals, Vehicles, Mecha, and So Much More!

28 different characters, poses and expressions that offer a dynamic selection of Manga-style animal figures. Drawing animals is a very popular subject within the manga genre and this book is perfect for anyone seeking to learn the basics of creating these delightful characters.

Animals

500 Manga Creatures is the biggest collection of manga clip art ever collected on one disc. Now stunning artwork can be created quickly and easily using this vast collection of hi-res (300dpi) JPEG images that are ready to use in any project. The book accompanying the disc teaches how to use professional coloring techniques, add figures to backgrounds, combine them into text documents, and create original manga stories! An enormous range of creatures are included, from soft and cuddly Chibi and Kawaii characters to Digimor and Pokemon style monsters, aliens, villains, and giant mechanical robots. 500 Manga Creatures is perfect for any designer or manga fan looking to create amazing artwork without learning to draw. All illustrations are royalty-free and are also supplied as black outlines, offering endless coloring possibilities. The book includes a complete illustrated listing of all the images on an accompanying CD. Criteria includes pose, setting, mood, appearance, expression, characteristics, and physical appearance.

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