This is the ultimate intimate look into comic book creator Mike Allred's scrapbooks, sketchbooks, and secret files! Allred provides commentary throughout this visual bonanza, revealing all the big breaks, influences, inspirations, turning points, friendships, collaborations, toys, merchandise, breakthroughs, setbacks and successes, all to show how a career is made and sustained. Every page is rich with visual milestones. Each issue contains dozens of rare and unpublished illustrations, as well as every cover and project Allred has been involved with. Allred shares techniques and tools he uses and how he works with his wife and colorist Laura Allred in a tour of their homes and studios. He also explains what worked, what didn't, and why. Plus, two animated sequences run on the odd and even corners throughout this entire project for a double bonus of fun!