Chris Gavaler, Leigh Ann Beavers

Creating Comics (eBook, ePUB)

A Writer's and Artist's Guide and Anthology

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350092839
• Artikelnr.: 60646291

Autorenporträt

Chris Gavaler is Associate Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, USA. He is also the author of On the Origin of Superheroes: From the Big Bang to Action Comics No. 1 (2015) and Superhero Comics (2017) and Creating Comics (2021), both published by Bloomsbury. Since 2021, he has been series editor of Bloomsbury Comics Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

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