This exceptional work offers a unique insight into the sketchbooks of 76 comic book illustrators from around the world. Classified by author, from

Sotos Anagnos to Danijel Zezelj, including Charles Burns, Peter de Sève, David Mazuchelli and Robert Crumb, these facsimiles present a wide range of different styles and registers, from quick sketches to finished compositions, from humorous drawings to underground comic strips. Character and setting development, stylistic experiments, playful digressions, fleeting notes, storyboard sketches... all the secret trials and errors that lead the artist to the final panel are revealed before our eyes... Much to our delight!