Ako's love of skateboarding continues to grow as she goes to another lesson with her coworker, Shiho. The two of them buy their own boards and officially become skater girls! But as Ako struggles to learn her second trick, she begins to wonder if she'll ever truly be able to skateboard…

Sketchy People is a comic by Portland cartoonist, Jack Kent. Jack draws who he sees exactly how he sees them. The weird, the obtuse, the sketchy! Welcome to Sketchy People, you could be next!

Ako finds herself coasting along, watching her twenties pass her by. Work at the video rental store, see her boyfriend, repeat… Her days are becoming an indistinguishable, listless blur. Until she encounters a skateboarder practicing a trick-and she's a girl! For some reason, Ako feels a pull toward the sport. Slowly, all the dreams and ambitions she gave up on and the futures she imagined for herself come flooding back, and Ako resolves to change herself now, before it's too late. But is it ever really too late to discover something new?

Ho, ho, huh? Who’s that excessively jolly fellow with the fake beard, shifty eyes, sweaty hands, and boozy breath? Why, it’s not just Santa but sketchy Santa! Yes, ’tis the season for awkward photos of small children posed precariously on the laps of some of the most clownish, irritable, and just plain weird-looking Santa wannabes—guys you’d give a wide berth to if you passed them on the street. Inside this painfully hilarious collection of holiday photos, you’ll discover the pop culture history of the sketchy Santa, and how to identify sketchy Santas in shopping malls everywhere . . . making this the perfect gift for anyone who understands that "He sees you when you’re sleeping" is a deeply disturbing thought.

The five-volume set LNCS 14355, 14356, 14357, 14358 and 14359 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2023, held in Nanjing, China, during September 22–24, 2023. The 166 papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 409 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: computer vision and pattern recognition; computer graphics and visualization; compression, transmission, retrieval; artificial intelligence; biological and medical image processing; color and multispectral processing; computational imaging; multi-view and stereoscopic processing; multimedia security; surveillance and remote sensing, and virtual reality. The ICIG 2023 is a biennial conference that focuses on innovative technologies of image, video and graphics processing and fostering innovation, entrepreneurship, and networking. It will feature world-class plenary speakers, exhibits, and high-quality peer reviewed oral and poster presentations.

Kerby Rosanes, expert in black ink sketches, has reproduced his sketchbook and has loaded it with tips, techniques and inspiration for artists to enjoy.