
Created by Matt Zoller Seitz
Directed by Judith Carter
NEW TO STORE:
Mad Men, Sopranos AND
Biography Collections
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
Haruki Murakami
Explore a manga world filled with dragons and adventure!
The year is 2238, and humans now share the Earth with alien incomers from other worlds, including many unique dragons. Hunted and chased from their homes in the Universal Empires (UE), these weakened dragons have come to Earth seeking refuge and acceptance. Together in one place for the first time in millennia, dragons unite as they seek to regain power in the universe...
Part coloring book, part drawing lesson, part sketchbook, and part story, Manga to the Max: Dragons takes you inside a futuristic world-building adventure and shows you how to bring that world to life!
Inside this book, you'll find 32 pages of awesome dragons to color and create, each with its own distinct storyline, which is introduced on the flip side of the coloring page. Explore each dragon's stats, read their profiles, and learn about their fiercest abilities!
Stunning full color examples are provided to get you started and provide color inspiration, along with an expert guide to crafting, drawing, and detailing your own unique manga characters. Learn how to plan, create a framework, define and refine the form, shade, highlight, and more!
Printed on high-quality, extra-thick, toothy paper, the pages are perforated for easy removal so you can display your art or present it to a loved one as a gift.
Manga to the Max: Dragons is more than a mere coloring book: Its light narrative introduces you to a world-building, dragon-filled manga adventure story. By coloring the pages, you get a chance to bring that world to life!
Appropriate for all ages, with Manga to the Max: Dragons, you will color and draw a manga world of adventure!
Color a MANGA World of Adventure
The year is 2238, and humans now share the Earth with alien incomers from other worlds, including many unique dragons. Hunted and chased from their homes in the Universal Empires (UE), these weakened dragons have come to Earth seeking refuge and acceptance. Together in one place for the first time in millennia, dragons unite as they seek to regain their power...
Part coloring book, part drawing lesson, part sketchbook, and part story, Manga to the Max: Dragons takes you inside a futuristic world-building adventure and shows you how to bring that world to life. Inside you'll find 32 pages of awesome dragons to color and create, each with its own distinct storyline, introduced on the flip side of the coloring page. Stunning full-color examples are provided to get you started, along with an expert guide to crafting, drawing, and detailing your own unique manga characters. Printed on high-quality, extra-thick paper, all of the pages are perforated for easy removal and display.
OTHER BOOKS IN THE SERIES
Manga to the Max: Warriors
Manga to the Max: Robots
Erik DePrince is a professional illustrator and character designer with over 15 years experience creating art for consumer products. Erik has sold over 300,000 licenses for his popular vector illustrations. Erik is the creator of the Kagonin(TM) card game as well as Playtime Buddies, a pre-school TV show.
MZS.Press is the online arts bookstore founded by author, critic, and filmmaker Matt Zoller Seitz and directed by Judith Carter. It offers new, used, signed, collectible, and rare books on film, TV, music, photography, and the visual arts. The store was launched in 2019 on a different platform and has expanded to incorporate arts books published by MZSPress's private imprint: titles currently include Seitz's The Deadwood Bible: A Lie Agreed Upon and Dreams of Deadwood, about the HBO Western, and Walter Chaw's A Walter Hill Film.
Our deepest wish is to promote, encourage, and distribute work by small presses, academic presses, and individuals. Extraordinary work tends to get swallowed up on giant platforms like Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The store's inventory of nearly 1000 volumes is currently in the process of being reconstructed after its relocation from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Dallas, Texas. The titles featured here are personally selected by a group of curators and advisors, including Seitz, Carter, and an array of critics, artists, journalists, educators, publishers, and arts mavens who are known for their ability to suss out what Seitz's jazz musician dad liked to call "the good sh*t."
“Please. Have mercy. I’ve been wearing the same underwear since Tuesday.”
Matt Zoller Seitz
Critic, Author, Filmmaker, MZS Press Creator
Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large and film critic of RogerEbert.com; a staff writer for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. His writing on film and TV has appeared in Sight and Sound, The New York Times, Salon.com, The New Republic and Rolling Stone. Seitz is the founder and original editor of the influential film blog The House Next Door, now a part of Slant Magazine.
Seitz has written, narrated, edited or produced over a hundred hours’ worth of video essays about cinema history and style for The Museum of the Moving Image, Salon.com and Vulture, among other outlets. His five-part 2009 video essay Wes Anderson: The Substance of Style was spun off into the hardcover book The Wes Anderson Collection. This book and its follow-up, The Wes Anderson Collection: Grand Budapest Hotel were New York Times bestsellers.
Other Seitz books include the New York Times bestellers The Sopranos Sessions and Mad Men Carousel; TV (The Book), The Deadwood Bible: A Lie Agreed Upon, and the forthcoming The Wes Anderson Collection: The French Dispatch. He is also an interviewer, moderator, and film programmer who has curated and hosted film and TV presentations for the Museum of the Moving Image, IFC Center, San Francisco's Roxie Cinema, and other venues. He is currently working on a memoir about his marriages and a feature-length documentary about his father, jazz musician and composer Dave Zoller.
His hobbies include exotic dancing, moonwalking, and affixing masking tape labels to every food item in the refrigerator, including eggs. He has the attention span of a gnat.