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Petr Kopl is one of the most prolific and most experienced commercial comic creators in Europe. Petr’s “Scandal In Bohemia” Sherlock Holmes won the Comic Book of the Year Award in his native Czech Republic, and Peter’s comics have been translated into several languages. Petr also organises educational programs, workshops and lectures around the world. This book was successfully tested in workshops in Egypt for example. In this sketchbook, he shares his experience, methods and tricks he uses in his own comic books. This is a complete guidebook for cartoonists and scriptwriters. The sketchbook includes procedures and instructions on how...

The Artist - Diego Perez Can you please give us an intro into a couple of your favorite pieces from the past: It is difficult to choose only a couple of paintings from the past, so I decided to choose two paintings from different production periods of my career. The first piece is a studio of Caravaggio's Bacchus, I made this oil painting when I was in my last year of the National Painting School “La Esmeralda” in Mexico in 2010. Caravaggio has always been my spiritual guide and inspiration for my work, especially for the use of the chiaroscuro...

We're delighted to share that November has seen our Sherlock Holmes Audio Book sales pass the 10,000 mark since we launched audio a few years ago and it looks like we are going to have our biggest month ever as well.  For most publishers, audio is the fastest growing format and Sherlock Holmes is no exception. This month's top ten titles are dominated by certain author/narrator combinations. Our top four slots feature award winning novelist Richard T Ryan whose novels are narrated by Nigel Peever with Peter K Andersson's short story collections at five and six. Number seven is brand...

Radio legend Jim French was already well known for producing excellent radio dramas, as well as creating Imagination Theatre and its “Movies for your mind” when, in March 1998, the first episode of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was broadcast, with adventures steeped in the finest of old-time radio tradition while presenting the true Canonical Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. In the following years, Jim French wrote an astonishing 50 original Holmes episodes for the series – and now these are collected together in three companion volumes. In 2017, MX Publishing released Imagination Theatre’s Sherlock Holmes, a volume featuring...

Following the success of the earlier volume, The Baker Street Case-Files, we have another collection of previously unknown Holmes and Watson tales that will excite the interests of readers across the globe – The Baker Street Legacy. A decade before his death, Dr Watson let it be known that with his passing he wished his nephew, Christopher Henry Watson MD, to be the executor of his will and guardian of all his personal and pecuniary affairs. One of the tasks he sanctioned was that his nephew should use his discretion in selecting for publication some of the three dozen or...