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Chronicle Books
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This is THE new happiness book. From the authors of Me Without You and We Without You, Happiness Is... illustrates 500 things to be happy about! Happiness is... A quiet home when the kids are at school. Being different. Escaping reality from time to time. Having a cat curled up on your lap. Finding exactly the right phrase. |
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Perfect for celebrating joyful occasions large and small, this classic collection of cards showcases Cat Seto's artwork of everyday treasures and French greetings. |
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It's bedtime in the Star Wars universe and Darth Vader's parenting skills are tested anew in this delightful follow-up to the breakout New York Times bestsellers Darth Vader and Son and Vader's Little Princess. In this episode, the Sith Lord must soothe his rambunctious twins Luke and Leia, who are not ready to sleep and insist on a story. As Vader reads, the book looks in on favourite creatures, droids and characters such as Yoda, R2-D2, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Darth Maul, Admiral Ackbar, Boba Fett and many more as they tuck in, yawn, settle down and dream. As ever, Jeffrey Brown's charming illustrations and humour glow throughout, playing on children's book conventions to enchant adults and kids alike. |
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In this visual feast Jesse Hunter takes us on a trip around the world with his camera to capture the smiling faces he finds in a variety of situations and places. Positive and uplifting, with beautiful photographs taken all around the world, All the Happiness in the World is a unique take on the well-known symbol of the smiley face and is a commitment to seek out happiness in every situation — wherever you are in the world a smiling face can be found. |
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Long lost in the shadows of art history, though beloved both with a wink and with whole heart by millions, black velvet paintings are one of the more popular and enduring art mediums in the world. Black Velvet Masterpieces celebrates the best/worst of this amazing artform, drawing from the unique collection of the only musuem of its kind in the world, the Velveteria Museum of black velvet paintings in Portland, Oregon, home to more than 1,200 pieces. The book will feature some 200 paintings, an interesting (and groundbreaking!) short history of black velvet painting, the story of the authors meeting and opening the Velveteria and their adventures buying velvet paintings on the road, a short primer on how to paint on black velvet, and then chapters divided galleries of paintings. |
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«At last! It's the meeting of two mind-boggling comedy creations from Matt Groening! They said it couldn't be done. But we don't listen to naysayers, refuseniks, and non-believers. So here it is, folks! The epic story that you've been waiting for... a story so big, so ambitious, so sweeping that it can only be told in a 208-page, large format, slipcased edition, complete with new material, supplemental stories, preliminary sketches, character designs, and a pin-up gallery featuring the talents of comics industry luminaries Alex Ross, Sergio Aragones, Geof Darrow, Kyle Baker, and Bernie Wrightson, among others. What would happen if the Planet Express crew and the citizens of New York City in the 31st century met the Simpsons and the citizens of Springfield... and how is it even possible? Prepare yourself for a Simpsons saga filled with Futurama! A Futurama fable suffused with the Simpsons! Featuring a plethora of pleasing plot devices including: evil brain spawn, lactose-intolerant space aliens, a giant ball of yarn, flying cars, mistaken identities, world domination, the brittle fabric of reality torn asunder, this is a comic book — collecting sentient planet, the Dewey Decimal system, self-eating watermelons, slave labor, space pirates, power-crazed vampires, super hero battles, unflattering underwear, mad science run amok, and much, much more! It's a comic convergence on a reality ripping, time altering, space traveling, intergalactic scale! It's the Simpsons/Futurama Crossover Crisis — uncut and all comedy! First published in 2002 and 2005 as two two-part, comic book mini-series («Futurama/Simpsons Infinitely Secret Crossover Crisis» and «The Simpsons/Futurama Crossover Crises II»), these four hard-to-find comics are collected together for the first time in a hardcover collection, encased in a die-cut slipcase, and packaged with a fascimile of the very first Eisner Award-winning issue of «Simpsons Comics» from 1993.» |
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This unique coloring book features immersive aerial views of real cities from around the world alongside gorgeously illustrated, Inception like architectural mandalas. Artist Steve McDonald's beautifully rendered and detailed line work offers bird's-eye perspectives of visually arresting global locales from New York, London, and Paris to Istanbul, Tokyo, and Guadalajara, Rio, Amsterdam, and many more. The book's distinctive large square format offers absorbingly complex vistas to color — nearly 60 — including a selection of mind-bending labyrinthine architectural illustrations for still deeper meditative coloring adventures and imaginative flights of fancy. |
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This is the ultimate book for poster fans and film buffs around the world. With over 1500 international posters from 1945-2005 — often comparing interesting variations in the way the same movie was visually presented from country to another — this volume offers a definitive survey of both film and popular graphic art in the modern era, and is an absolute must-have for fans of either one. Drawn from the collection of the prestigious Posteritati Gallery in New York (one of the world's foremost collections of movie posters), chapters introduce the design schools, quirks, and practices of various nations — from the U.S. to Poland to Japan to Turkey — and then illustrate the graphic output of each nation in a variety of posters. |
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