Category Archives: Idiot’s Guides

Mine, All Mine

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Matt Forbeck

My author’s copies of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Drawing Superheroes and Villains Illustrated finally showed up yesterday. It’s the first time I’ve held a printed copy of the book in my hands, and it looks great. Yair Herrera did … Continue reading →

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CIG to Superheroes and Villains in Stores

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Matt Forbeck

From what I’ve been told, my latest book—The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Drawing Superheroes and Villains, Illustrated—is in stores as of yesterday. If you’re interested in drawing all sorts of different types of super-powered characters—or seeing a whole slew of … Continue reading →

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Alternate Reality Reviews

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Matt Forbeck

Early last year, before Wizards announced it would release a new “fourth” edition of Dungeons & Dragons this year, I completed work on The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Creating Dungeons & Dragons characters. Unfortunately, because the book was written for … Continue reading →

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Idiot Superheroes Cover Up

Posted on June 20, 2008 by Matt Forbeck

Man, I love that title. Aaanyhow, here’s the cover for my next “How to Draw” book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Drawing Superheroes and Villains, Illustrated. Because we didn’t have the rights to use any established characters, I came up … Continue reading →

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Shoujo-a-Go-Go

Posted on June 4, 2008 by Matt Forbeck

My latest book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Drawing Manga: Shoujo, Illustrated, was released yesterday, June 3. As I’ve mentioned here before, I’m about as far away from the target audience for this book as you could imagine, but I … Continue reading →

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Shoujo Manga and Me

Posted on April 15, 2008 by Matt Forbeck

Penguin recently posted a cover and details about my next book with manga-ka Tomoko Taniguchi: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Manga: Shoujo, Illustrated. This should be in stores on June 3. Before I started work on the book, I hadn’t … Continue reading →

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Things to Come

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Matt Forbeck

A bit of digging through Amazon.com shows that I have three new books and one repackaged book due to hit shelves this year. First up, we have the novelization of the Mutant Chronicles film. This is listed as shipping August … Continue reading →

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Writing Late

Posted on December 20, 2007 by Matt Forbeck

I was up until 4:30 AM working on the final bits for The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Superheroes and Villains, Illustrated (which I’m working on with Yair Herrera for IDW and Alpha). I ran the spellchecker, sent off the files, … Continue reading →

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Idiot Heroes and Villians

Posted on October 8, 2007 by Matt Forbeck

I recently began work on The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Superheroes and Villains, Illustrated. This is another “how to draw” book for IDW Publishing, in the vein of the manga books I worked on with Tomoko Taniguchi. This time around, … Continue reading →

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Complete Idiot Again

Posted on August 31, 2007 by Matt Forbeck

This week, I wrapped up work on The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Drawing Manga, Illustrated: Shojo, the second I’ve written in the how-to series for IDW and Alpha Books. (Third if you count The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Creating Dungeons … Continue reading →

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