Make Comics Like the Pros

Author: Greg Pak
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0385344511
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 125

Book Description
A step-by-step guide to all aspects of comic book creation--from conceptualization to early drafts to marketing and promotion--written by two of the industry's most seasoned and successful pros. Discover the Secrets of Your Favorite Comic Book Creators Do you want to break into the comics industry? There are many creative roles available—writer, penciller, inker, colorist, letterer, editor, and more. Each creator serves a vital function in the production of sequential art at companies such as DC, Marvel, Image, and Valiant. In Make Comics Like the Pros, veteran comics creators Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente team up with a who’s who of the modern comic book scene to lead you step-by-step through the development of a comic. With these two fan-favorite writers as your guides, you’ll learn everything from script formatting to the importance of artistic collaboration to the best strategies for promoting and selling your own sequential art masterpiece. Pak and Van Lente even put their lessons into practice inside the pages of the book—pairing with Eisner Award–winning cartoonist Colleen Coover (Bandette) to produce the swashbuckling, adventure comic Swordmaids, and giving you front row seats to their creative process. Make Comics Like the Pros provides all the answers you’ve been seeking to take your comic book–making dreams all the way to professional-level reality.

The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing Comics

Author: Comfort Love
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0804137811
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Take Control of Your Comics-Making Destiny Creating your own comic is easier than ever before. With advances in technology, the increased connectivity of social media, and the ever-increasing popularity of the comics medium, successful DIY comics publishing is within your reach. With The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing Comics, creators/instructors Comfort Love and Adam Withers provide a step-by-step breakdown of the comics-making process, perfect for any aspiring comics creator. This unprecedented, in-depth coverage gives you expert analysis on each step—writing, drawing, coloring, lettering, publishing, and marketing. Along the way, luminaries in the fields of comics, manga, and webcomics—like Mark Waid, Adam Warren, Scott Kurtz, and Jill Thompson—lend a hand, providing “Pro Tips” on essential topics for achieving your comics-making dreams. With the insights and expertise contained within these pages, you’ll have everything you need and no excuses left: It’s time to make your comics!

Making Comics

Author: Scott McCloud
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780060780944
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
Presents instructions for aspiring cartoonists on the art form's key techniques, sharing concise and accessible guidelines on such principles as capturing the human condition through words and images in a minimalist style.

The DC Comics Guide to Creating Comics

Author: Carl Potts
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0385344732
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
The most exciting and comprehensive book yet in the bestselling DC Comics how-to-draw series. From the bestselling DC Comics Guide series, this is the essential resource for aspiring comics creators looking to make intriguing, action-packed comics like the experts at DC Comics. Going beyond the typical art and writing lessons, this book shows readers how to take full advantage of comics' sequential visual storytelling possibilities. With examples direct from DC Comics, featuring their best creators and classic superheroes like Batman, Superman, and the rest of the Justice League, it presents key principles and techniques for crafting exciting professional-quality comics. This behind-the-curtain look at the DC Comics creative process is a can't-miss opportunity for aspiring comics creators, whether they want to work for DC Comics or invent their own unique comics creations.

The Insider's Guide To Creating Comics And Graphic Novels

Author: Andy Schmidt
Publisher: IMPACT
ISBN: 9781600610226
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
From the creative minds behind your favorite modern-day comics ... In this unprecedented, behind-the-scenes guide, former Marvel editor and current IDW senior editor Andy Schmidt and his superstar industry friends give you the inside track on creating engaging, professional-looking comic books. Written for upcoming creative stars and comic book enthusiasts, The Insider's Guide to Comics and Graphic Novels covers the entire creative process from beginning to end, from fine-tuning a script to the nuances of camera angles, costume design and lettering. You'll learn not only how to emulate a camera pan, hit 'em with a splash page and shift into slow motion, but also WHEN and WHY to dip into that bag of graphic tricks for maximum impact. The real-world guide to creating great comics! Profiles and insights from John Romita, Jr., Neal Adams, Gene Ha, David Finch and John Byrne Professional advice from top talents in the business, including writers Brian Michael Bendis, Geoff Johns and Tom DeFalco; inkers Klaus Janson, Karl Kesel and Mike Perkins; colorist Chris Sotomayor; and letterer Chris Eliopoulos Expert instruction on every element of the creative process - writing, drawing, inking, coloring, page layout and scene design - and how they all work together

The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics

Author: Freddie E Williams II
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0823008320
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
At last–the first guide to drawing comics digitally! Artists! Gain incredible superpowers...with the help of your computer! The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics shows how to give up pencil, pen, and paper and start drawing dynamic, exciting comics art entirely with computer tools. Author Freddie E Williams is one of DC Comics' hottest artists and a leader in digital penciling and inking–and here, in clear, step-by-step directions, he guides readers through every part of the digital process, from turning on the computer to finishing a digital file of fully inked comic art, ready for print. Creating a template, sketching on the computer, penciling, and finally inking digitally are all covered in depth, along with bold, timesaving shortcuts created by Williams, tested by years of trial and error. Step into the digital age, streamline the drawing process, and leap over the limitations of mere physical drawing materials with The DC Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics.

How to Draw Great-looking Comic Book Women

Author: Christopher Hart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780823023943
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
This text details how to master the art of drawing fabulous females for comic books. From basic anatomy and musculature to more advanced poses, costumes and hairstyles, it covers all the various types of comic book women, along with how to compose a comic book panel and how to tell the story.

Code Monkey Save World

Author: Greg Pak
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996307710
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
A put-upon coding monkey teams up with a seething, lovelorn super-villain to fight robots, office worker zombies, and maybe even each other as they struggle to impress the amazing women for whom they fruitlessly long. Based on the songs of internet superstar musician Jonathan Coulton.

Amadeus Cho

Author: Greg Pak
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302485490
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 115

Book Description
Get to know Cho! That's teen genius Amadeus Cho, the seventh smartest person in the world - but who's counting? When Cho is declared "Mastermind Excello" by an intelligence contest, his life suddenly spins out of control - and now he'll need all his smarts just to stay alive! Luckily, Cho - and his adorable coyote pup, Kirby - quickly meet and befriend two of the Marvel Universe's strongest powerhouses: Hercules and the Incredible Hulk! When Cho investigates his sister's fate, a complex web begins to unravel. Who has been manipulating him? And why? Can the seventh smartest person on the planet solve the riddle of his own past and future? Collecting material from AMAZING FANTASY (2004) #15; INCREDIBLE HULK (2000) #100; and INCREDIBLE HERCULES #126, #133, #135 and #137.

Making Comics

Author: Lynda Barry
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
ISBN: 9781770463691
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
The idiosyncratic curriculum from the Professor of Interdisciplinary Creativity will teach you how to draw and write your story Hello students, meet Professor Skeletor. Be on time, don’t miss class, and turn off your phones. No time for introductions, we start drawing right away. The goal is more rock, less talk, and we communicate only through images. For more than five years the cartoonist Lynda Barry has been an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin–Madison art department and at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, teaching students from all majors, both graduate and undergraduate, how to make comics, how to be creative, how to not think. There is no academic lecture in this classroom. Doodling is enthusiastically encouraged. Making Comics is the follow-up to Barry's bestselling Syllabus, and this time she shares all her comics-making exercises. In a new hand-drawn syllabus detailing her creative curriculum, Barry has students drawing themselves as monsters and superheroes, convincing students who think they can’t draw that they can, and, most important, encouraging them to understand that a daily journal can be anything so long as it is hand drawn. Barry teaches all students and believes everyone and anyone can be creative. At the core of Making Comics is her certainty that creativity is vital to processing the world around us.