Drawing words & writing pictures : making comics : manga, graphic novels, and beyond / Jessica Abel & Matt Madden.
A course on comic creation--for college classes or for independent study--that centers on storytelling and concludes with making a finished comic. With chapters on lettering, story structure, and panel layout, the fifteen lessons offered--each complete with homework, extra-credit activities and supp...
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New York :
First Second,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Building blocks
- Every picture tells a story
- The strip club
- Bridging the gap
- Penciling
- Getting on the same page
- Lettering
- Inking the deal
- Structuring story
- Getting into character
- Setting the stage
- Constructing a world
- Black gold
- Comics in the age of mechanical reproduction
- 24-hour comic
- Appendix A : Supplies
- Appendix B : Homework critiques
- Appendix C : Story cards
- Appendix D : Comic book book report
- Appendix E : Making minicomics.