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The Art of Frank Cho
A Twenty-Year Retrospective
2020
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The Art of Frank Cho presents Frank's first full career overview in this 20-year retrospective featuring over 380 pieces of art. They include his early student works, personal paintings and a section on his creator-owned properties, followed by an extensive overview of his adventure and superhero work completed for the major and independent comic publishers. Frank provides fresh commentary throughout to reveal insight into his art. An interview covers his recent projects with a revealing look at his working process. Frank picked many of his favorite comic covers and interior pages to share for this book. Preliminary pencil sketches from his archives are revealed for the first time. A range of art shows the finished inks direct from the original art as well as final published colored versions. Step-by-step stages are included for selected works, showing the initial concept to the final form for reproduction. Extensive scanning and photography of the originals has been done over the course of a year to provide the best reproductions possible. Art examples are highlighted from independent comics, along with Frank's creator-owned properties, such as Jungle Queen, Liberty Meadows, Skybourne and Zombie King. Other features include behind-the-scenes selections from his titles in development, such as Autumn, Fight Girls, Guns and Dinos, War Wytch and World of Payne. The best of his recent Baker Street Irregulars Sherlock Holmes journals material is also included.
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Author

Frank Cho
Frank Cho
Author · 21 books

The second of three children, Frank Cho was born in Seoul, Korea in 1971, but moved to the United States at the age of six and was raised in Beltsville, Maryland. Cho received no formal training as an artist. He got his start writing and drawing a cartoon strip called University2 for The Diamondback, the student newspaper at the University of Maryland, College Park. After graduation, Cho adapted elements of this work for use in a professionally syndicated strip, Liberty Meadows.

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