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Create your own graphic novel and comic book characters with this practical and inspiring guide, with step-by-step exercises and practice pages. In this stylishly packaged, full-color book you'll find everything you need bring your stories to life, from creating characters, to making a storyboard and coloring in with inks.

The launch of a new partnership with animation giant Studio Ghibli. This season we publish 2 plush journals, a postcard set, and pop-up notecards, all focusing on the Studio's beloved film My Neighbor Totoro. Just in time to celebrate Totoro's 30th anniversary in 2018.

Bestselling line! Marimekko-one of the world's first lifestyle brands (and still one of its best)-returns with a new notebook collection featuring three gorgeous designs from its Weather Diary series.

Continuing their partnership with Japanese animation giant Studio Ghibli, this season Chronicle publishes three collectible stationery products a postcard set, a hardcover sketchbook, and a plush journal all featuring artwork inspired by the Studio's Academy Award winning film SPIRITED AWAY. The year 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the film's release!

Make mistakes vanish with this set of five erasers featuring characters from Studio Ghibli's award-winning film Spirited Away. Eraser sleeves include Chihiro, Haku, No Face, Yubaba, and Radish Spirit-all packaged to look as if they are crossing the bridge into the spirit world!

Let your creativity run wild with this luxe sketchbook featuring inspiring icons from Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke, an epic film about a noble warrior, a young girl raised by wolves, and the pursuit of peace between humanity and nature.

Featuring a cloth, foil-stamped cover, lay-flat binding, and extra-thick pages, the Princess Mononoke Sketchbook

We each feel connections to animals in our own way. Some of us have pets. Others admire animals in the wild. Because the outer world often reflects our internal states and animals are highly sensitive to our energies, each encounter with an animal signals something about our inner world and innermost concerns.

Carl F. Neal's classic, bestselling book on making incense with natural ingredients has now been expanded and updated.