Penguin Books Australia

As a teenager, Leanne Shapton trained for the Olympic swimming trials; now an artist, she is still drawn inexorably to swimming, in pools and on beaches across the world. What do you with an all-absorbing activity once it's past its relevance, and yet you can't quite give it up? Is it possible to find a new purpose for its rigors and focus?

Get that story out of your head and onto paper! Written in the form of a graphic novel itself, the book covers all the components and shows readers how to:

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Drawing Manga Illustrated, Second Edition , is an enhanced revision of its successful predecessor-one that makes it easier than ever before for readers to create their own manga characters, landscapes, and stories. This new edition is even more visual, with over 100 additional step-by-step illustrations that guide readers from the basic strokes to the final ink renderings...

From the Incredible Hulk to the invincible Iron Man to the amazing Spiderman, all 200 characters who have made up the The Avengers, the world's mightiest Super Hero team are included in this ultimate character encyclopedia.

Discover all about the Avengers' action packed history since 1963. Find out about each member of the Avengers with detailed facts, stats, character histories, their allies and their...

A once-in-a-lifetime, insider look at the unique experience that is Comic-Con.

This BradyGames companion Comic-Con Epsiode IV: A Fan's Hope provides a broad take on the experience of Comic-Con and how it became the quintessential centre of American pop culture. It offers an insider's look at the panels, exhibitions, workshops, awards ceremonies and parties; and the unique experience of attending...

An easily-accessible, A-Z guide to the world of Japanese anime and manga, detailing everything from world-famous movies to the very latest cutting-edge projects by emerging directors and animators. Lavishly illustrated with a wealth of iconographic images and presented in a dynamic comic book design, Manga Impact is an essential reference book that will delight newcomers, fanboys and cinéastes...

The history of the comic from 19th-century to today's graphic novels.

Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels is the first ever fully documented study to explore the graphic qualities of the comic book, and the development of the genre into a sophisticated and culturally revealing popular art form.

A comprehensive look at the American artist's famous text works.

Jenny Holzer (b.1950) is one of the most significant artists to work in the public realm since the 1980s. Starting on the streets of New York with simple fly-posters, she has gone on to disseminate her truisms, slogans, memorials and poems through a variety of media. They are enunciated by an unstable register of personae, be it ad-man...

The must-have novel based on the comic event of 2006-the seven-issue story arc featuring Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman published by DC Comics-which changed the face of the DC Universe.

Mal is a kid genius with a talking dog . . . so why doesn't anyone seem to notice him?

Welcome to St Trinian's – the young ladies' academy where arson, stabbings and witchcraft are among the maidenly arts offered on the curriculum, where gunpowder is available from the tuck shop and where smaller girls are tortured on the rack by prefects at playtime.

A collection  of 100 postcards, each featuring a different and iconic Penguin book jacket.  From classics to crime, here are over seventy years of quintessentially  British design in one box.