Ever wanted to draw manga but didn’t know where to start? This is the book for you! The textbook of choice at Tokyo Animation College–the leading school for manga artists in Japan, it covers all the basic information you need to get started on drawing manga with clear and easy-to-understand instructions.

• Which materials and tools are essential and how to use them
• How to draw characters and what proportions to use for bodies and faces
• Techniques for creating simple but effective special effects in ink and screen tone
• Easy-to-follow rules for drawing in different types of perspective
• How to use photographic material for backgrounds

Regularly mistaken for a boy and/or a vampire, the traveler Kuro roams the land, clothed in black from head to toe, a Kuro-sized coffin on her back. Accompanied by her snarky bat friend, Sen, the mysterious duo meets all sorts of individuals en route – some good, some evil, some just plain crazy! But Kuro never stays in one place for long, begging the question: What exactly is she searching for? And what exactly does she intend to do with that coffin?!

Told in 4-koma (four panel) style and peppered with full-color pages, Satoko Kiyuduki’s debut captures all the whimsy of the most memorable fairy tales!

After finishing school in New York, Rabbi Harvey traveled west in search of adventure and, hopefully, work as a rabbi. His journey took him to Elk Spring, Colorado, a small town in the Rocky Mountains. When he managed to outwit the ruthless gang that had been ruling the town, the people invited Harvey to stay on as the town’s rabbi. In Hervey’s adventures in Elk Spring, he settles disputes, tricks criminals into confessing, and offers unsolicited bits of insight and wisdom.

Each story presents Harvey with a unique challenge–from convincing a child that he is not actually a chicken, to retrieving stolen money from a sweet-faced bubbe gone bad. Like any good collection of Jewish folktales, these stories contain layers of humor and timeless wisdom that will entertain, teach and, especially, make you laugh.

Things just can’t get any worse for Antonio Mercer. A private eye by trade, a dame from his past has re-surfaced in his life as a client along with all of the emotional baggage he thought he’d left behind forever. Of course, this unusual client doesn’t have just any case – her family is mixed up with seriously dangerous people and the body count is just starting to pile up!

Set in sun-drenched Cape Town, South Africa, The Red Monkey Double happiness Book features two full-length stories – “The Leaking Cello Case” and “John Wesley Harding” – about the monkey-footed Dave and his freeloading hippy pal Paul. The book’s stuffed to the gills with mystery, suspense, action, adventure, conspiracy theories, and cool cars as Dave and Paul thwart criminal malfeasance even as they ponder the larger questions. Such as, “What steps can I personally take to help protect Earth and the species that inhabit it?” (Though most people’s answers don’t involve sword fights and hovercrafts.)

The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book, brings a dry, deadpan wit anchored in everyday reality combined with unnervingly deranged plots, rendered with a half-realistic and half-cartoony TinTin-style crispness. Suited to adults and older teens.

Inches the doll was the cutest in the whole house. Loved by everyone, the world was Inches’ oyster. Then one day something happened… The Sock Monkey and Mr. Crow became concerned for their diminutive friend, but by then it was too late! The truth sent the terrified Sock Monkey and Crow fleeing for their lives! Inches had turned EVIL!