Staff Pick
If you're interested in making comics like Dog Man by Dav Pilkey or Smile by Raina Telgemeier, this is a great guide. It goes over basic supplies, scripting, art techniques, and even has a simple project for printing your own comic. This guide is geared toward children, but as an artist, I enjoyed reading it myself! Recommended By Rose H., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Maker Comics is the ultimate DIY guide. Inside JP Coovert's graphic novel you will find illustrated instructions for seven comic book projects
The International Comics Library is in a lot of trouble If Maggie can't come up with $500,000 in a week, Dr. Carl is going to bulldoze her grandfather's library and turn it into a parking lot To save the day, she'll need all her comic drawing skills, the loyal library watchdog, and her new assistant (that's you ).
With Maker Comics: Draw a Comic you'll learn to create and print your own comics books Follow these simple steps to sketch out your story ideas and ink a comic page. Learn which art supplies are best for drawing comics--you can use a pen, a brush, or even a computer With the help of photocopy machine, you can even self-publish your own comics and share them with your friends
In this book you will learn how to:
write a comic script
draw a comic strip
draw and print a one-page comic
create thumbnail sketches
pencil a comic
ink a comic
print and bind a multi-page comic