Super Graphic

Super Graphic

Author: Tim Leong

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2013-09-24

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1452135274

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The comic book universe is adventurous, mystifying, and filled with heroes, villains, and cosplaying Comic-Con attendees. This book by one of Wired magazine's art directors traverses the graphic world through a collection of pie charts, bar graphs, timelines, scatter plots, and more. Super Graphic offers readers a unique look at the intricate and sometimes contradictory storylines that weave their way through comic books, and shares advice for navigating the pages of some of the most popular, longest-running, and best-loved comics and graphic novels out there. From a colorful breakdown of the DC Comics reader demographic to a witty Venn diagram of superhero comic tropes and a Chris Ware sadness scale, this book charts the most arbitrary and monumental characters, moments, and equipment of the wide world of comics. Plus, this is the fixed format version, which includes high-resolution images.


"How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?"

Author: Tahneer Oksman

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2016-02-16

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0231540787

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American comics reflect the distinct sensibilities and experiences of the Jewish American men who played an outsized role in creating them, but what about the contributions of Jewish women? Focusing on the visionary work of seven contemporary female Jewish cartoonists, Tahneer Oksman draws a remarkable connection between innovations in modes of graphic storytelling and the unstable, contradictory, and ambiguous figurations of the Jewish self in the postmodern era. Oksman isolates the dynamic Jewishness that connects each frame in the autobiographical comics of Aline Kominsky Crumb, Vanessa Davis, Miss Lasko-Gross, Lauren Weinstein, Sarah Glidden, Miriam Libicki, and Liana Finck. Rooted in a conception of identity based as much on rebellion as identification and belonging, these artists' representations of Jewishness take shape in the spaces between how we see ourselves and how others see us. They experiment with different representations and affiliations without forgetting that identity ties the self to others. Stemming from Kominsky Crumb's iconic 1989 comic "Nose Job," in which her alter ego refuses to assimilate through cosmetic surgery, Oksman's study is an arresting exploration of invention in the face of the pressure to disappear.


The Invention of Hugo Cabret

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Author: Brian Selznick

Publisher: Scholastic

Published: 2015-09-03

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1407166573

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An orphan and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy train station. He desperately believes a broken automaton will make his dreams come true. But when his world collides with an eccentric girl and a bitter old man, Hugo's undercover life are put in jeopardy. Turn the pages, follow the illustrations and enter an unforgettable new world!


InfoWorld

InfoWorld

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Publisher:

Published: 1982-10-18

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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InfoWorld is targeted to Senior IT professionals. Content is segmented into Channels and Topic Centers. InfoWorld also celebrates people, companies, and projects.


The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel

Author: Nat Gertler

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9781592572335

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Tools for creating the next great graphic novel! What do the movies Men In Black, Road to Perdition, Ghost World, and X-Men all have in common? Each started out as a graphic novel-one of the fastest growing segments of the book publishing industry. Now, here is the first book to provide a comprehensive and detailed look at the process involved in creating a successful graphic novel.


Getting (more out of) Graphics

Getting (more out of) Graphics

Author: Antony Unwin

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2024-09-13

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 1040035477

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Data graphics are used extensively to present information. Understanding graphics is a lot about understanding the data represented by the graphics, having a feel not just for the numbers themselves, the reliability and uncertainty associated with them, but also for what they mean. This book presents a practical approach to data visualisation with real applications front and centre. The first part of the book is a series of case studies, each describing a graphical analysis of a real dataset. The second part pulls together ideas from the case studies and provides an overview of the main factors affecting understanding graphics. Key Features: Explains how to get insights from graphics. Emphasises the value of drawing many graphics. Underlines the importance for analysis of background knowledge and context. Readers may be data scientists, statisticians or people who want to become more visually literate. A knowledge of Statistics is not required, just an interest in data graphics and some experience of working with data. It will help if the reader knows something of basic graphic forms such as barcharts, histograms, and scatterplots.


Young Adult Literature, Fourth Edition

Young Adult Literature, Fourth Edition

Author: Michael Cart

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2022-05-09

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0838937470

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Editorial Advisory Board: Sarah Park Dahlen, Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Marianne Martens, Associate Professor, School of Information, Kent State University; Amy Pattee, Associate Professor and Co-coordinator of Dual-Degree MS LIS/MA Children’s Literature, School of Library and Information Science, Children’s Literature, Simmons University “Comprehensive and substantial ... a highly recommended resource," raved VOYA about the third edition. Now, to keep pace with changes in the field of publishing and realign itself to the newest generation of young adults, Cart returns with a sweeping update of his classic text. Relied upon by educators, LIS instructors and students, and practitioners for its insight and thoroughness, his book surveys the landscape of YA lit both past and present, sketching out its origins and showing how it has evolved to deal with subjects every bit as complex as its audience; closely examines teen demographics, literacy, audiobooks, the future of print, the role of literary criticism, and other key topics; provides updated coverage of perennially popular genre fiction, including horror, sci fi, and dystopian fiction; delves deeply into multicultural and LGBTQIA+ literature, substantially updated in this edition; features expansive interviews with best-selling authors like Eric Shanower, Jackie Woodson, and Bill Konigsberg as well as several publishers and leaders in the field; discusses the impact of the Printz Award, ALAN’s Walden Award, the National Book Award, The Los Angeles Times Book Award, and other honors; and features abundant bibliographic material to aid in readers' advisory and collection development.


MATLAB PROGRAMMING

MATLAB PROGRAMMING

Author: Y. KIRANI SINGH

Publisher: PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

Published: 2007-06-13

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 8120330811

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MATLAB is a very powerful, high-level technical computing language used by mathematicians, scientists and engineers to solve problems in a wide range of application areas. It also comes with several toolboxes to solve most common problems. The book introduces MATLAB programming in simple language with numerous examples that help clarify the concepts. It is designed to enable readers develop a strong working knowledge of MATLAB and acquire programming skills to write efficient programs. The book is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate engineering students, researchers and professionals who wish to learn this language quickly and more conveniently. The readers after going through this book will be able to write their own programs to solve scientific and engineering problems of varying complexity. KEY FEATURES : Use of system commands and problem-solving techniques in command windows is explained in simple and clear language. Handling of arrays and matrices, which are the main entities in MATLAB environment, is discussed extensively in separate chapters. Handling of cell arrays and structures is described clearly with examples. Techniques of developing new MATLAB programs using scripts and functions are explained in a systematic way. File-handling techniques are also demonstrated. Topics of two-dimensional graphics are discussed with illustrative plots. GUI programming is introduced in an easily understandable way.