Beneath this less than satisfactory, unrepresentative cover, lurks an amazing assemblage of fantastic sketchbook samples from a host of talented (and copacetic) comics creators from across the specturm.

This massive*, 352 page, 9" x 12", full color, French-flapped softcover is brimming over with great – and inspiring – drawings, layouts, sketches, doodles, thumbnails and more.

When this book was originally released in 2012 (!) not only did the art department let this book down, so did the marketing department, as nowhere in the material assembled to promote this book did they list the actual artists it contains.  Why not???  If only they had!  Well, better late than never, we say, so here goes:

Sotos Anaganos

Crhis Battle

Lou Beach

Kaye Blegvad

Peter Blegvad

Russ Braun

Steve Brodner

Charles Burns

Chris Capuozzo

Lilli Carré

Seymour Chwast

Colonel Moutade

R. Crumb

John Cuneo

Vanessa Davis

Kim Deitch

Julie Delporte

Eric Drooker

Drew Friedman

Manuel Gómez Burns

Bill Griffith

Robert Grossman

Benoît Guillame

Cyril Guru

David Heatly

Rian Hughes

Kevin Huizenga

Nathan Jurevicious

Ben Katchor

Denis Kitchen

Jakob Klemencic

Thomas Knowler

Matej Kocjan

Nora Krug

Oliver Kugler

Peter Kuper

Joseph Lambert

Bredan Leach

Étienne Lécroart

Matthias Lehmann

Martin Lemelman

David Libens

Sébastien Lumineau

Patrick McHale

Matt Madden

Javier Mariscal

David Mazzucchelli

Rutu Modan

Saxton Moore

Victo Moscoso

Joanna Neborsky

Josh Neufeld

Mark Newgarden

Vladan Nikolic

Gary Panter

Bill Plympton

Max de Radiguès

Laruen Redniss

Arnold Roth

Marcel Ruijters

Johnny Ryan

David Sandlin

Seth

Peter de Sève

R. Sikoryak

Posy Simmonds

Mark Alan Stamaty

Jim Steranko

James Sturm

Joost Swarte

Takeshi Tadatsu

Ann Telnaes

Simon Tofield

Jeremy Traum

Carol Tyler

Andrés Vera Martínez

Lauren Weinstein

Tracy White

Signe Wilkinon

Run Wrake

Derek Yaniger

Danijel Zezelj

 

WOW!  RIght?

TWO more copies have surfaced FROM THE ARCHIVES – PLEASE NOTE:  While new, each of these copies is slightly marred: one has a small amount of sticker residue on the back cover; the other, a light scoring and small slice on the botttom right front cover.

* Four pounds!  Thus the high shipping charge.