Lee Konstantinou examines irony in American literary and political life, showing how it migrated from the countercultural margins of the 1950s to the 1980s main

One of the world's leading cartoon artists shows readers how to capture the retro look of Sponge Bob, Dexter, and other popular comics, revealing how to recaptu

Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest.

Original publication and copyright date: 1987.

Describes how to draw different types of archetypal characters, including scientists, robots, zombies, vampires, adventurous women, witches, and monsters, inclu