6 5/8 x 10 1/8 160 black-and-white illustrations North American Distribution ART TECHNIQUE Artist Kerry Gammill won acclaim for his masterful creations of such classic comics characters as Superman, Spider-Man, Captain America, and The X-Men. More recently, his career has taken him to Hollywood as a conceptual artist for several film and TV series, including Virus, Species 2, Stephen King's Storm of the Century, The Outer Limits, and Stargate SG-1. In Drawing Monsters & Heroes for Film & Comics, Gammill takes readers behind the scenes on the little-known world of film conceptual art and offers scores of proven success tips on designing creatures for action films. Filled with personal anecdotes, career retrospectives and classic and unpublished art, the book gives readers expert guidance and insider techniques for . . . drawing comic book heroes . . . breaking into film . . . drawing monsters for film makeup . . . creating storyboards for film and TV . . . drawing animatronics for film effects . . . and much more. Features Introduction by Harry Knowles, legendary webmaster of ain't-it-cool-news.com, and Foreword by makeup and special effects master Steve Johnson of XFX, Inc.