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How To Create Comics, From Script To Print

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This is a very complete guide to making a comic book quite literally from start to finish. The authors actually create an actual original comic and take you through the entire process start to finish. Brainstorming concepts and characters, story, concept sketckes, script, sequential art, inking, coloring, lettering, printing, even marketing and distribution is covered. The examples provided are very worthwhile. They show the script and right next to it the comic page to show you how it goes from words to sequential art. Each step is very detailed: considerations for writing and drawing, options for script formats, what tools to use and how to ink, the steps involved in using Illustrator to do the lettering, etc. It's all here.

In a newly expanded and redesigned edition, "How To Create Comics: From Script To Print" by magazine editor and 'Spider-Man' scripter Danny Fingeroth and 'Draw!" magazine editor and 'Batman' artist Mike Manley have collaboratively worked out a complete 'how-to' book for aspiring artists wanting to create a new comic complete with original characters, then going from script and roughs to pencils, inks, colors, and lettering. Of special interest is the chapter devoted to the process of getting a comic printed and distributed. From offering a critique of characters and comics from an editor's perspective, to tips on coloring, to writing lessons, to resources lists, insights into the phenomena of web comics, "How To Create Comics" is the perfect 'how to' introduction manual for anyone who aspires to create and publish a comic of their own either in print or on the internet.

A disappointing book. VERY poorly organized. A thin book on a big topic. It spent a lot of time on the area where it was weakest: scripts. A better investment would be Denny O'Neil's The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics. Also of interest was Klaus Janson's The DC Comics Guide to Pencilling Comics.

Character development is beautifully done in Orson Scott Card's Characters and Viewpoint.

Getting back to THIS book. The thing I liked the best was the cover. It always catches my eye.