This inspiring book demonstrates the myriad ways that shonen manga characters and background scenes can be personalized, adapted, and customized, and reveals the secrets of manga storytelling, pacing, and panel and page composition. The accompanying CD includes gutsy contemporary heroes, cute girls, supporting casts, backgrounds, page layouts, speed lines, speech balloons, tones, fonts, and effects. It's everything you need to create your own, professional-looking shonen comics.

The Shonen Art Studio book and CD can help you get started on your way to becoming a mangaka (the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist). Shonen manga means "boys' comics" — that is, comics read primarily by boys. This type of manga is more action- and hero-oriented than shoujo, the girls' manga.

Yishan Li is a professional manga artist whose many books have been published in the UK, US, France, and Switzerland. Her Beijing-based company, Yishan Studio, is made up of a small group of artists that has published many manga titles in the US.

Author — Yishan Li.

Hardcover with CD-ROM. 128 pages. 8½" × 11" (22 cm × 28 cm).