Wednesday Inspiration: Ashely Wood

Ashely Wood is more prolific than a pair of bunny rabbits during mating season. Love him, or hate him, the man is a drawing and painting machine. I can't imagine when he sleeps.

The next time you're struggling to complete an art project (insert.. drawing, painting, sculpture..) Just think of Ashley Wood.

Ask yourself, would Ashely Wood quit?

Hell no - and neither will you.





See more of Ashely Wood here:
http://ashleybambaland.blogspot.com/

New Shane Glines Spiral Bound Sketchbook

Just got word from Alberto Ruiz over at Brandstudio that the new Shane Glines Spiral Bound Sketchbook is arriving shortly. We will notify you when the copies hit the store.

Art of Deanna Marsigliese now available in the UK

If you live on the other side of the Atlantic and are looking for a copy of this great book, it's now available from our friends at Gosh UK (link below). If you're in North America, we ship at a subsidized price - only $7 anywhere in Canada or the continental US for this book. Comes with signed bookplate.


Hey - They got Alan Moore coming in for a signing! So Jealous

http://goshlondon.blogspot.com/2009/03/art-of-deanna-marsigliese.html

Thank you Chris! Kiskaloo is Back on the shelf.

The little book book by Chris (lilo and stitch) Sanders, is back in stock. Copies come signed by Mr. Sanders himself. Thank you Chris!

It's Time to Fart by Sherman DeFume and Mr.E

Move over Walter the farting dog! There's a new fart book in store now.

In Store now - self published, featuring great art by Toronto Natives Mr.E and Sherman DeFume.

this first edition comes signed. Check it out for yourself.

Adhouse Rules: James Jean, Ronnie Del Carmen..

Adhouse book has put out some great books in the past, but the future is just as exciting.

Here are some of the great books coming soon from Adhouse.

First off: Ronnie Del Carmen's And There you are is arriving in May. Features the character he developed in his self published series Paper Biscuit. (Hmm.. we've been sold out Paper Biscuit volume 1,1.5, 2, 2.5 for some time. Wouldn't it be great if some amazing publisher decided to collect those out of print puppies into one book?.. just thinking out loud.)

For those who don't know, Ronnie works at Pixar in the story department. Other fun facts: he's related to that other nice Del Carmen artist (Louie). He has over 800 kids. ok - I made that up, but he's definately a big family man.

We love Ronnie.


In June, Pixar's Scott Morse, Lou Romano, Nate Rag and Don Shank bring us the second book in a series: The Ancient Book of Sex and Science.


And the one we've all been waiting for - James Jean's Process Recess 3 comes in July. This one promises to have a ton of sketches. 240 pages hardcover.


To get more details, and learn about all of Adhouse's other projects, head over to:
http://www.adhousebooks.com/

Painted Girls and Mark Behm books in stock!

NOW IN STOCK!

Hi Fructose 11, Skarr 1, Negima Neo 1, Samurai 7 1

Books arriving in store on Wednesday April 1, 2009.





FREE PREACHER 1 SPECIAL EDITION -WITH ANY GRAPHIC NOVEL PURCHASE. NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART.





Hi Fructose 11. Mark Ryden and more..



Buffy 24. Joss Whedon's Season continues..



New from TokiDoki



New Graphic Novels:



Wolverine Omnibus (2 different covers available)

Resident Evil Graphic Novel:









New Manga:















The complete list:

HI FRUCTOSE MAGAZINE QUARTERLY #11

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #24 CHEN CVR

DRAGON EYE GN VOL 07

DUNGEON ZENITH TP VOL 03 BACK IN STYLE

GACHA GACHA NEXT REVOLUTION GN VOL 09

GAKUEN PRINCE GN VOL 01

GANKUTSUOU GN VOL 02

KASUMI GN VOL 02

KITCHEN PRINCESS GN VOL 09

MAO-CHAN GN VOL 02

MELANCHOLY OF HARUHI SUZUMIYA MANGA FICTION SC

NEGIMA GN VOL 21

NEGIMA NEO GN VOL 01 MAGISTER NEGI MAGI

SAMURAI 7 GN VOL 01

STILL I RISE GN

XXXHOLIC GN VOL 13

PREACHER # 1 SPECIAL EDITION

AVENGERS PREM HC HAWKEYE

BATMAN THE HEART OF HUSH HC

BOMB QUEEN TP VOL 05 BOMBASTIC

CHRONICLES OF CONAN TP VOL 17 CREATION QUEST

DC WILDSTORM DREAMWAR TP

DEADPOOL CLASSIC TP VOL 02

FALLEN ANGEL TP VOL 06 CITIES OF LIGHT AND DARK

HULK SKAAR SON OF HULK PREM HC VOL 01

IMMORTAL IRON FIST PREM HC VOL 04 MORTAL IRON FIST

JONAH HEX BULLETS DONT LIE TP

JSA TP VOL 02 THY KINGDOM COME PART 01

MOTHER COME HOME HC

MS MARVEL TP VOL 05 SECRET INVASION DM ED

RESIDENT EVIL FIRE AND ICE TP

STAR WARS OMNIBUS EMISSARIES AND ASSASSINS

WARHAMMER 40K DEFENDERS OF ULTRAMAR TP

WHAT IF TP SECRET WARS

WOLVERINE FIRST CLASS TP WOLVERINE BY NIGHT

WOLVERINE HC TALES OF WEAPON X

WOLVERINE OMNIBUS HC VOL 01 MCNIVEN CVR DM ED

WOLVERINE OMNIBUS HC VOL 01 MILLER CVR

FEA BEA BLUE LITTLE UGLY 7IN PLUSH

FEA BEA BLUE UGLYDOLL 12IN PLUSH

FEA BEA YELLOW LITTLE UGLY 7IN PLUSH

FEA BEA YELLOW UGLYDOLL 12IN PLUSH

LEGEND OF ZELDA SHIELD BELT BUCKLE

TOKIDOKI SKELETRINA VINYL FIG

TOKIDOKI SKELETRINO VINYL FIG

Free Comic Book Day – May 5,2009

FCBD 2009 DC KIDS MEGA SAMPLER (NET)

FCBD 2009 IMPACT UNIVERSITY VOL 05 (NET)

FCBD 2009 LOVE & CAPES (NET)

FCBD 2009 LOVE & ROCKETS (NET)

FCBD 2009 OWLY & FRIENDS (NET)

FCBD 2009 RADICAL COMICS PREVIEW (NET)

FCBD 2009 SAVAGE DRAGON #148 (NET)

Where the Wild Things Are Trailer

Thursday Inspiration: Yuta Onoda

Yuta Onoda is a 4th year illustration student at Sheridan College. You can learn more about her here: http://yutaonoda.blogspot.com/

Wednesday Inspiration: Ben Caldwell

Ben Caldwell, creator of Dare Detectives, All Action Classics Dracula and the awesome instructional book set: Fantasy Cartooning and Action Cartooning.

See his blog here:
http://purgetheory.blogspot.com/

Monsters Vs. Aliens Interview Conrad Vernon

Over the past little while, I have posted several times about this movie. Hopefully, you're not completely sick of it. First the trailer came out, then the truly awesome art book, and now this fascinating interview I read today. If it's not obvious, I am truly excited about cheesy monster movies (it comes out Friday).

The interview is over on Newsarama with Monsters vs Aliens co-director Conrad Vernon. In it he discuss many aspects of the prodcution, including working/animating for 3-D.

here's an excerpt where he talks about Animation Cheats:

“For instance, 3-D reveals a lot of cheats most animation usually uses. For instance, eye lines. You can have what you think is two characters looking at each other, then when you put the glasses on and you see both characters are looking off into space instead of each other. The characters also could be two feet to the right of each other, so the eye line doesn’t match up. Then again, my whole career was learning on the job, so that was nothing new to me. "

To read the whole thing go here:

http://www.newsarama.com/film/090324-monster-v-aliens-vernon.html

Cat Sh*t One Trailer

Tuesday Inspiration: Marcos Mateu-Mestre

Marcus Mateu is currently at Dreamworks. He's worked on such films as Prince of Egypt, Surf's Up and Balto. His work is Confident, Bold and extremely graphic.






If you're not familiar with his work, you're in for a treat. Check him out at:
http://marcosmateu.blogspot.com/

7th Annual Female Eye film festival at the Bloor Cinema

Gala Opening March 25th.
showings march 25-29.


for more info check out:
http://www.femaleeyefilmfestival.com

Mark Crilley: Drawing Manga Eyes

The following videos are by Mark Crilley, the creator of one of my all time favourite series Akiko, as well as the series Miki Falls from Tokyopop. Sadly Akiko is mostly out of print right now, but there's always hope it will see print again. In the mean time, here are some cool videos of Mark drawing eyes in the manga style.

Gorillaz Noodle sketching in fast forward

These have been on Youtube for some time, but if you haven't seem them yet, they're fun to watch.

Camilla D'errico Tanpopo In stock now.

New Book By Camilla D'errico: Tanpopo now in stock!

Ramos Herrera Meglia Galloway Luuna

Just arrived: Luuna anthology - featuring the art of Sean "cheeks" galloway, Francisco Herrera, Meglia, Keramides and more.. Check it out

VAMPIRE KNIGHT 06 IN STOCK NOW

HI FRUCTOSE BOXED SET + FREE PLANETARY #1

FREE PLANETARY 1 with any graphic novel purchase. Try it and see what you've been missing.



New William Stout Artbook -from the master of Dinosaur Art!







Missed Hi-Fructose 1-4, no problem - new boxed set collects 1-4 with extra stuff. cover shown is by Toronto's very own Ray Caesar. His limited art book, the Art of Ray Caesar is in stock now.









From Dr.Who, comes The Adipose Plushy - the fat just walks away! Yup its a plushy of a creature that's made entirely of Fat!





Back in stock! The complete Tick by Ben Edlund.



New Graphic Novels:





New Manga:







The complete list:

WILLIAM STOUT PREHISTORIC LIFE MURALS HC

HI FRUCTOSE COLLECTED ED

CUT GN

SECRET HISTORY OF THE AUTHORITY HAWKSMOOR TP

SHOWCASE PRESENTS AMBUSH BUG TP VOL 01

MARVEL ADVENTURES FF TP DOOMED DIGEST

SECRET INVASION TP AMAZING SPIDER-MAN

SECRET INVASION TP THOR

TICK THE COMPLETE EDLUND TP

TRANSFORMERS BEAST WARS OMNIBUS TP

A DRIFTING LIFE TP

SPOOKS TP VOL 02 OMEGA TEAM

SUPERMAN BATMAN ENEMIES AMONG US TP

TEZUKAS BLACK JACK TP VOL 04

GUARDIANS OF GALAXY TP VOL 01 LEGACY

DAREDEVIL TP LADY BULLSEYE

BRAVE AND THE BOLD HC VOL 03 DEMONS AND DRAGONS

CHECKMATE CHIMERA TP

AMERICAN JESUS TP VOL 01 CHOSEN

ANNA MERCURY HC VOL 01 THE CUTTER

DOCTOR WHO 10-IN ADIPOSE PLUSH

DOCTOR WHO FOB WATCH REPLICA

LONELY EGOTIST NOVEL (MR)

A I REVOLUTION GN VOL 05 (OF 17)

HIKARU NO GO TP VOL 14

MANHATTAN LOVE STORY GN

OUR KINGDOM GN VOL 06

MAGICAL JXR GN VOL 04

BERSERK TP VOL 28

CROWN GN VOL 02 (OF 7)

FLCL NOVEL VOL 03 (OF 3)

AI NO KUSABI SPACE BETWEEN NOVEL VOL 05 (OF 6)

UTAHIME THE SONGSTRESS GN

FCBD 2009 FCHS

PLANETARY #1 SPECIAL EDITION

KILLER HC VOL 01 (MR) (C: 0-0-1)

DOCTOR WHO CLASSICS TP VOL 01