From cartoons to graphic novels, from humor to superheroes, comics are theworld's most popular form of illustration. And, as in all forms of illustration,artists and designers experiment with visual ideas, image-and-word play, narrativesequencing, and stylistic flourishes through sketching. What we rarely see is thecreative thinking--the doodling--that leads to fully formed visual ideas and stories.Comics Sketchbooks presents the private notebooks of eighty-two of the world'smost inventive, innovative, and successful artists alongside new talents and emergingillustrators. The artists have been selected by the world's leading critic andmost knowledgeable source in the field of graphic design and illustration, StevenHeller, who has had personal access to some of the most private and unseenmaterial. Although there have been several comic-book compilations over theyears, none has the visual excitement, insight, and mind-blowing creativity--and fun--of this one.