Chip Kidd Bücher

Als Gotham im Zuge einer großangelegten Neubauwelle modernisiert werden soll, zieht dies die renommiertesten Architekten der Welt in die Stadt. Auch Bruce Wayne spielt dabei als Vorsitzender der Baukommission eine wichtige Schlüsselrolle. Doch eine plötzliche Serie bizarrer Unfälle im Zusammenhang mit den Neubauten erfordert auch Batmans Eingreifen … Das lang erwartete Werk des berühmten Autors und Designers Chip Kidd!

Design-Genie und Comic-Kenner Chip Kidd (Judge This, Batman: Bauwerke des Todes) und Ausnahmekünstler Michael Cho (Shoplifter, Captain America) zelebrieren die Frühzeit der Avengers unter Stan Lee und Jack Kirby! Ihre großformatige, großartige Graphic Novel zeigt Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Wasp, Giant-Man und Hulk im Duell mit Loki, dem Tunichtgut aus Asgard. Dabei erfahren die Helden eine Wahrheit über sich und ihre Natur, die sie vernichten könnte. Kidd und Cho beschwören klassisches Marvel-Retro-Feeling herauf, ziehen jedoch auch allerhand postmoderne Register. Und so müssen am Ende sowohl die Helden auch als die Leser darüber nachsinnieren, was Begriffe wie Comic-Held, Comic-Schurke, Wirklichkeit und Existenz bedeuten.

Dave Gibbons, Mitbegründer von Watchmen, beschreibt die Entstehung des Comic-Meisterwerks und zeigt zahlreiche seltene, unveröffentlichte Illustrationen. Er beleuchtet verworfene Konzepte, Symbolik und Details, wodurch dieses Buch ein unverzichtbarer Begleitband zur Watchmen-Graphic Novel wird.

Mit einem Comicstrip in einer amerikanischen Tageszeitung am 2. Oktober 1950 fing alles an. In dem halben Jahrhundert seiner Schaffenszeit schrieb und illustrierte Charles M. Schulz den wohl berühmtesten Comicstrip der Welt: die Peanuts.17.897 dieser Strips wurden veröffentlicht. Längst sind die kleinen Charakterköpfe zu Helden der Popkultur avanciert und begeistern mit ihren Weisheiten und Alltagsabenteuern Millionen von Lesern. Für dieses Buch wurden Schätze aus dem großen Fundus des Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center und der Familie Schulz zusammengetragen und abfotografiert - darunter viele bisher unveröffentlichte Strips.

The Eisner Award-winning, nationally best-selling mythology returns in an expanded paperback edition featuring 32 new pages. This edition showcases the iconic DC Comics characters—Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, Green Lantern, and the Justice League—through the unparalleled artistry of Alex Ross. Entertainment Weekly praised Ross's ability to give weight to both super and mortal heroes, creating a unique spatial presence on the page. Acclaimed designer/writer Chip Kidd and photographer Geoff Spear have collaborated to produce a visually stunning book, with an introduction by renowned director M. Night Shyamalan. Often likened to Norman Rockwell, Ross's work reflects his deep affection for these classic superheroes. The book offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into his creative process, showcasing dynamic art paired with Kidd’s innovative design. Readers will find memorable stories like Kingdom Come, Peace on Earth, War on Crime, and Uncle Sam come alive across more than 300 pages. The new material highlights Ross's latest comic series, Justice, featuring sketches, preliminary art, and prototype figures. Every page of this book bursts with the power of the icons it celebrates.

Charles M. Schulz believed that the key to cartooning was to take out the extraneous details and leave in only what's necessary. For 50 years, he wrote and illustrated Peanuts, the single most popular and influential comic strip in the world. Renowned designer Chip Kidd was granted unprecedented access to the extraordinary archives of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California. Only What's Necessary reproduces the best of the Peanuts newspaper strip, all shot from the original art by award-winning photographer Geoff Spear, and features exclusive, rare, and unpublished original art and developmental work-much of which has never been seen before

Chip Kidd is recognized worldwide as one of the best graphic designers working today, especially in book design. This is a much anticipated follow-up to Chip Kidd: Book One, where he not only showcases his most recent work, but demonstrates the relationship he has with some of the world's most influential authors and sheds light into his passion for the art of book-making and most recent expansion to other media design like film posters, magazine covers, and artist collaborations. This book is a must-have for designers and all book-lovers interested in the man responsible for some of the most recognizable book covers in the world. CHIP KIDD, BOOK TWO is a work of art itself, a book on a designer described as "a design demigod," and "the closest thing to a rock star" in graphic design. The book will feature all of Kidd's book designs from the years 2007 to 2017, including book cover designs for best-selling authors Haruki Murakami, Cormac McCarthy, Orhan Pamuk, Augusten Burroughs, and David Sedaris, each whom share insight on Kidd's creative process and the importance his designs have had on their work.

Opens with the promise that everyone is a designer, and uses every page to show the reader why that is. In this title, each spread explains and demonstrates a critical introductory graphic design concept, the same ones taught in the first year of art school: form, size, scale, repetition and pattern, colour, typography, and more.

The first issue of Fantastic Four by legendary creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced fans to a now-iconic team of Super Heroes-Mister Fantastic, the Invisible Girl, the Human Torch, and the Thing-ushering in the modern Marvel Age of comics. Kirby's artistic contributions in this comic book revolutionized visual storytelling and brought a new reality to the way comics stories could be told, the ripple effects of which continue to influence comic book art to this day. Sixty years after its publication in November 1961, this stunning reimagining by award-winning graphic designer Chip Kidd uses an original copy of the comic book (which initially sold for ten cents and now sells for astronomical prices in good condition) to present the classic story in a whole new way that is sure to engage both lifelong fans and the latest generation of Marvel enthusiasts. The book also includes text by bestselling novelist Walter Mosley, Marvel editor Tom Brevoort, and historian Mark Evanier (Kirby: King of Comics). Stunningly photographed by award-winning photographer Geoff Spear, Fantastic Four no. 1 is showcased as you've never seen it before-oversized and remastered-a panel-by-panel exploration of the entire issue that captures every single detail and nuance of Lee's story and Kirby's groundbreaking artwork, making it a must-have for every comic book collection

The two hottest genres in comics gleefully collide head-on, as the most beloved American superhero gets the coolest Japanese manga makeover ever. In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King, licensed the rights to commission its own Batman and Robin stories. A year later, the stories stopped. They were never collected in Japan, and never translated into English. Now, in this gorgeously produced book, hundreds of pages of Batman-manga comics more than four decades old are translated for the first time, appearing alongside stunning photographs of the world's most comprehensive collection of vintage Japanese Batman toys. This is The Dynamic Duo as you've never seen them: with a distinctly Japanese, atomic-age twist as they battle aliens, mutated dinosaurs, and villains who won't stay dead. And as a bonus: Jiro Kuwata, the manga master who originally wrote and drew this material, has given an exclusive interview for our book. More than just a dazzling novelty, Bat-Manga is an invaluable, long-lost chapter in the history of one of the most beloved and timeless figures in comics.