Creating Comics
A Writer's and Artist's Guide and Anthology
1st Edition
Published on 14. January 2021
360 pages
978-1-350-09284-6 (ISBN)
Description
For creative writers and artists, comics provide unique opportunities for expression - but unique challenges, too. Creating Comics brings together in one volume an authoritative guide to the creative process, with practical drawing exercises throughout and an anthology of comics demonstrating the eclectic possibilities of the form.
Creating Comic covers:
· Using images to conceive and develop characters and stories
· The complete range of possible relationships between two images
· The step-by-step structure of visual narratives
· How to approach each page like a unique canvas
· Combining words and images to create new meanings
Fully integrated with the main guide, the anthology section includes work by creators including: Lynda Barry, Alison Bechdel, Jaime Hernandez, Marjane Satrapi, Adrian Tomine, and many others.
Creating Comic covers:
· Using images to conceive and develop characters and stories
· The complete range of possible relationships between two images
· The step-by-step structure of visual narratives
· How to approach each page like a unique canvas
· Combining words and images to create new meanings
Fully integrated with the main guide, the anthology section includes work by creators including: Lynda Barry, Alison Bechdel, Jaime Hernandez, Marjane Satrapi, Adrian Tomine, and many others.
More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
212 bw illus
ISBN-13
978-1-350-09284-6 (9781350092846)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
01/2021
Bloomsbury Academic
€53.41
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Persons
Chris Gavaler is Assistant Professor of English at W&L University, USA. He is also the author of On the Origin of Superheroes (2015), Superhero Comics (2017), Superhero Thought Experiments (2019, with Nathaniel Goldberg), Revising Fiction, Fact, and Faith: A Philosophical Account (2020, with Goldberg), and The Comics Form (forthcoming).
Leigh Ann Beavers is a visual artist whose work combines reconciliation ecology with multi-media drawing installation. She holds a BFA in Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University, an MFA in Graphics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and teaches drawing and printmaking at W&L University.
Leigh Ann Beavers is a visual artist whose work combines reconciliation ecology with multi-media drawing installation. She holds a BFA in Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University, an MFA in Graphics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and teaches drawing and printmaking at W&L University.
Content
Introduction
Introduction
Chapter 1, Images
Chapter 2, Hinges
Chapter 3, Sequences
Chapter 4, Pages
Chapter 5, Words
Chapter 6, Process
Anthology of Comic pages
Index
Introduction
Chapter 1, Images
Chapter 2, Hinges
Chapter 3, Sequences
Chapter 4, Pages
Chapter 5, Words
Chapter 6, Process
Anthology of Comic pages
Index
