Comic book artists are now developing cutting-edge, extreme comic bookharacters, where heroes are grittier and women are sexier, all designed foraximum impact. Cutting-edge comics venture beyond the traditional boundarieso extreme anatomy, extreme costuming, extreme special effects and extremeethods of storytelling.;This guide shows readers, step-by-step, how to drawhe radical characters and use the cutting-edge techniques that are the goldtandard for designing extreme comics. There are how-to illustrations, whichemonstrate the basic comic techniques, as well as show how to create suchntense colouring effects as knockouts and glows. Several leadingutting-edge comic book artists also describe how they spin originalharacter designs, many created for this book.