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The Art of Neal Adams
Art by Neal Adams

The most luxurious book to-date devoted to the legendary Batman and X-Men comic book and Tarzan book-cover artist, Neal Adams.

From his Ben Casey newspaper strips to Creepy magazine work to groundbreaking comic books, Adams' work serves as an inspiration for every illustrator who works in the field to this day. His topflight 60s and '70s Marvel and DC work are perennial sellers in infinite repackaging. Coinciding with the launch of his Continuity Studio, Adams expanded into cutting-edge advertising work, amusement park ride design, magazine illustration, animation, and paperback book covers. Included in this collection are classic and rare works spanning the artist's noted career and a unique selection of Neal's seldom-seen paintings. Fully annotated by the artist.

Available in
SIGNED RARE Deluxe Hardcover in a Slipcase, and Softcover.

Neal Adams MONSTERS
Story and art by Neal Adams

Neal Adams, explodes back onto the comic scene with a new hardcover graphic novel, Neal Adams Monsters, featuring the most terrifying supernatural creatures in classic-horror history: The Frankenstein Monster, Count Dracula and the Werewolf. Neal Adams Monsters was rendered oversized to take the penciling and inking chores to the max. The end result is a masterwork which features the dramatic line work and exquisite fine rendering Neal Adams has been canonized for. Thrill to a level of unprecedented detail as a comics grandmaster reveals the story of these infamous horror legends as only he can see them: a horror epic guaranteed to thrill.

Collected into an English-language graphic novel for the first time, this material was originally serialized in Adam's groundbreaking anthology Echo of Future Past. This new edition has digital coloring and effects in a process personally overseen by Adams to conform to his exacting standards for rendering, lighting and form. New pages have been added, new covers as well as a special section of rare paintings, sketches and drawings of monsters that captured his imagination throughout his illustration career.

A Deluxe Slipcased edition is available signed by Adams with a 16-page bonus art portfolio of rare and unpublished works. For a fan of great art and its integration into great story-telling, comic lover or not, Neal Adams Monsters is a must-have.

HAL FOSTER
Prince of Illustrators ~ Father of the Adventure Strip
By Brian M. Kane
Signed Limited Hardcover and Softcover Edition
Introduction by James Bama

Limited Hardcover SIGNED by author Brian Kane & legendary Doc Savage illustrator JAMES BAMA


In the first comprehensive biography of Hal Foster, author Brian M. Kane examines the 70-year career of one of the greatest illustrators of the twentieth century. Superman was modeled after Foster's drawings of Tarzan, Flash Gordon's Alex Raymond borrowed compositions from Prince Valiant and thousands of artists, including the famous contemporary Western painter James Bama, count Foster among their greatest influences.

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1892 of a seafaring family, Hal naturally took to the sea. At the age of eight he paddled a twelve-foot plank across Halifax Harbor to the consternation of large Cunard liners. In his youth he was a catalogue artist, a trapper, a professional boxer, a gold prospector, and a hunter-guide in the uncharted forests of Canada. In 1921 with a wife and two children to support he peddled his one-speed bicycle 1,000 miles across dirt and gravel roads from Winnipeg to Chicago to attend the Art Institute and later find permanent employment.

The young illustrator's work appeared on the covers of Popular Mechanics and in hundreds of magazines for clients such as Northwest Paper, Jekle Margarine, Southern Pacific Railroad and Illinois Pacific Railroad. In 1929 Foster illustrated the first newspaper adaptation of Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The comic strip was the first of its kind and it was Foster's sense of realism, composition, draftsmanship, and understanding of fluid anatomy that would forever mark him as "The Father of the Adventure Strip."

The famous newspaper tycoon, William Randolph Hearst, wanted Foster and made the artist an unheard of offer. If Foster would leave Tarzan and come to work for Hearst's King Features Syndicate he could do anything he wanted and have complete ownership of the new series. The first episode of Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur appeared on February 13, 1937. Foster would chronicle the exploits of his greatest creation for the next 43 years.

Prince Valiant became one of the most successful comic series of all time, winning the prestigious Banshees' "Silver Lady" award and both the National Cartoonists Society's coveted "Reuben" award and "Gold Key" award. The strip also generated merchandise outside of the Sunday funnies such as toy knights complete with castle, a board game, paper dolls, candy bars and even a briefcase. In 1954, 20th Century Fox took Foster's creation to the silver screen in Prince Valiant, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Robert Wagner, James Mason and Janet Leigh. Foster's fame led to him being the subject of an episode of the popular TV series, This is Your Life which aired April 14, 1954. At age 73, Foster was elected to membership in Great Britain's Royal Society of Arts - an honor very few Americans can claim. Foster's classic portraya l of Britain's history inspired England's King Edward, who abdicated to become Edward, The Duke of Windsor, to call Prince Valiant the "greatest contribution to English literature in the past hundred years."

MYTHOS: Fantasy Art Realms of Frank Brunner
By J. David Spurlock

Mythos: Fantasy Art Realms of Frank Brunner, is a dazzling showcase of classic and new art from this master of fantasy illustration. Top properties Conan, Man-Thing, Dr. Strange, Red Sonja, Howard the Duck, Elric, and many others are featured in this exciting collection, along with insightful commentary. Author-compiler J. David Spurlock said, "This is the greatest presentation of Frank's lush paintings ever produced." Fans of animation, graphic novels, and fantasy art will be thrilled by the art Brunner designed for Marvel Comics, Heavy Metal magazine, Disney, Dreamworks, and other top movie studios--and dozens of never-before-seen works, including commissioned art produced for collectors around the world. Mythos is a fantasy come true for Brunner fans!

Brunner's MYTHOS features 136 big 8.5" x 11" pages of top quality, full-color printing on luxurious, heavy, gloss stock similar to Vanguard's acclaimed RGK: Art of Roy G. Krenkel and Famous Monster Movie Art of Basil Gogos books.

The Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage
Queen of Pulp Pin-Up Art
Authors and compilers Stephen D. Korshak and J. David Spurlock

Starting in 1932, Margaret Brundage, wife of leftist revolutionary Slim Brundage, -- who she met at the wildly-bohemian Dil Pickle Club during the Chicago Renaissance -- forever changed the look of Fantasy and Horror with her alluring, sensationalistic covers for the legendary pulp magazine, Weird Tales. Brundage, whose art contemporaries include Virgil Finlay and Hannes Bok, is unique as she was the first female cover artist of the pulp era. Decades before the gothic fetish craze, Brundage's lush, provocative paintings, which frequently featured smoldering, semi-nude young women bearing whips, became a focus of acute attention and controversy. At the very peak of the notorious pulp's classic run, the magazine's appeal was due as much to Brundage's covers as to the stories inside by famous authors H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch and Conan creator, Robert E. Howard. Long before Frazetta, it was Brundage who was the very 1st Conan cover artist. The Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage is the premier book devoted to this noted artist and features all of her Weird Tales and Conan covers.

Art of the Dragon:
The Definitive Collection of Contemporary Dragon Paintings
By Patrick Wilshire and J. David Spurlock

Vanguard presents every dragon lover's dream come true, Art of the Dragon: The Definitive Collection of Contemporary Dragon Paintings. This concise yet comprehensive survey by Visions of Never author Patrick Wilshire and How to Draw Chiller Monsters, Werewolves, Vampires, and Zombies author J. David Spurlock presents and examines the ultimate collection of contemporary dragon paintings and provides insights about the foremost dragon-painting fantasy artists including Jeff Easley, Larry Elmore, Clyde Caldwell, Keith Parkinson, Todd Lockwood, Donato Giancola, John Howe, Bob Eggleton, Don Maitz, Stephen Hickman, Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell, Greg Hildebrandt, and record-breaking Hugo Award winner Michael Whelan who, also provides the cover to this long-awaited and breathtaking compendium. This book is dedicated to the memory of the late, great fantasy artist Jeffrey Catherine Jones who passed away May 19, 2011.

JOE KUBERT:
How to Draw from Life
Written & Illustrated by Joe Kubert

JOE KUBERT!...the legendary Hawkman, Tarzan, Enemy Ace, Batman, Sgt Rock artist and critically acclaimed graphic novelist of Tor, Abraham Stone, Fax From Sarajevo, Sgt Rock, and Yossel , also founded the first and only accredited school devoted solely to the art of cartoon graphics. The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, Inc. in Dover, New Jersey has since produced many of today's leading cartoonists including Kubert sons Adam and Andy Kubert.

In 1998 Kubert expanded his career as an art instructor with a series of correspondence courses, Kubert's first instructional book for major bookstore release, Superheroes (1999) was aimed at a young audience interested in cartooning. It was followed by the instructional kit, Joe Kubert's Comic Book Studio, (2002).

In his new book, JOE KUBERT: How to Draw from Life, designed for more mature art students, professionals and enthusiasts, Kubert presents a wealth of his own drawings from nude models spanning his years as an artist and art instructor. This book is accompanied by Kubert's commentary on drawing from life. Subjects include gesture drawing, contour drawing, the figure in motion, short studies, long studies, drawing women, the figure in perspective, form and structure, anatomy, and lighting. This is surely the most significant How-To book from a major comics creator this year.

Neal Adams Sketchbook
Compiled & Designed by Arlen Schumer

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Legendary Batman and X-Men artist Neal Adams said, "If you're interested in getting to the thought process that has gone into the work that I have done, this could be just the sketchbook that does it for you. Here, if you like, you can climb down into my mind. Just watch the first step, it's a doosey."
Vanguard enlisted Arlen Schumer to help compile the Adams Sketchbook. Schumer has quickly become the top Adams historian, following his definitive, Neal Adams: the DC Years for Comic Book Marketplace and his recent, Neal Adams: the Marvel Years for Comic Book Artist magazine.
The Neal Adams Sketchbook is becoming increasingly rare, and no more copies are being sold to retailers or distributors.

How to Draw Chiller Monsters, Werewolves, Vampires and Zombies
By J. David Spurlock
Foreword by Rob Zombie

From movies to comics to graphic novels, monsters and their ilk tap into the terror that lurks in the darkest regions of the human collective unconscious. Enduringly popular characters, from vampires to zombies, provide an exciting challenge and appeal to comics and animation artists. How to Draw Chiller Monsters, Werewolves, Vampires and Zombies features the artwork of comic-book artist and Hollywood monster designer Kerry Gammill, Gene Colan as well as Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Jack Davis, Frank Frazetta, Basil Gogos, and Wally Wood.