Creating Comics: A Writer's and Artist's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies)

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.

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Gavaler, Chris

Beavers, Leigh Ann

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About the Author\nChris Gavaler is Associate Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, USA. He is also the author of On the Origina of Superheroes: From the Big Bang to Action Comics No. 1 (2015) and Superhero Comics (2017) and Creating Comics (2021), both publishing by Bloomsbury. Since 2021, he has been series editor of Bloomsbury Comics Studies.\nLeigh Ann Beavers is Instructor of Art at Washington and Lee University, USA.\nJoe Wilkins is Associate Professor of English at Linfield College, USA. His memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on the Big Dry won the GLCA New Writers Award for non-fiction and his work has appeared in Georgia Review, Harvard Review and Slate among many other periodicals.\nSean Prentiss is Associate Professor of English at Norwich University, USA. He is author of Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave (2015), which won the National Outdoor Book Award for Biography/History. He is also co-editor of The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre (2014).\nFor 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.\nCreating Comic covers:\n· 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\nFully 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.

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Creating Comics: A Writer's and Artist's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies)

Creating Comics: A Writer's and Artist's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies)