Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio

Jessica Abel

Crown

"A gold mine of essential information for every aspiring comics artist. Highly recommended." --Scott McCloud 
Drawing Words and Writing Pictures is 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 supplementary reading suggestions ? provide a solid introduction for people interested in making their own comics. Additional resources, lessons, and after-class help are available on the accompanying website, www.dw-wp.com.

Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: Making Comics from Manga to Graphic Novels

Comics & Graphic Novels

Manga

Roaring Brook Press

Go from overwhelmed, anxious, and stuck, to consistent, clear, and in control of your creative life. If you feel like you're floundering in the deep end (Not waving, drowning!), and anxiety over the complexity and enormousness of your creative projects overwhelms you, stop scrambling to fit everything in and feeling stretched thin. DIVE DEEP AND SWIM 
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<li>Sustain the energy you feel when thinking of how awesome your projects could be. </li> <li>Value your own creative work as highly as work you do for other people. </li> <li>Build a reusable structure and process that will consistently get you to the finish line. </li> <li>Blast through your stuck-ness. </li> <li>Focus. Finish. Move on to the next project. </li> </ul> You're a creative person. Even if you have a hard time calling yourself a "writer" or an "artist" in public, making your creative work is core to who you are and how you see the world. You may be harboring a big, ambitious idea for a project. Possibly a lot of them. And it's killing you. You lie awake thinking about it...and hating yourself for not doing more to make it real. And then in the morning you're exhausted, and you can't believe you "wasted" more time on this stupid idea. Who ever told you you were creative anyway? You try to shove your idea away, to forget it. But your creative work is what keeps you sane. You can't not do this. So you live with guilt and anxiety all the time. You've tried to carve out the time and attention you need to devote to your creative work. You've made ambitious goals, you've written lists, you've scheduled calendars...you've installed shackles on your desk chair. But chaining yourself to your work only seems to make you more distractible and more miserable. (And those unsightly leg sores!) Maybe you've even tried to borrow time-management tips from the business world. Get things done! Build seven habits! Eat that frog! But following business-minded productivity systems just doesn't work for you. The issue isn't simply getting "things" done, it's allowing yourself to devote precious time and attention to the vital, self-generated creative work that builds toward your vision for the future. The problem is, the life you're living is already full. You've made a lot of promises, to yourself, your family, your friends, and your community, that you'll be there for them. You probably have a job; you may have kids. You may well have many competing ideas for your creative work. Where, exactly, can you find that mythical Creative Focus Unicorn? In Growing Gills, you'll discover that the power is already within you to make your work. The biggest obstacles to your getting your important creative work done lie in the unknowns you're facing. Growing Gills takes you step by step through the process of pinning down exactly what's stopping you from finishing your beautiful, inventive, and potentially game-changing projects. Using the power of conscious decision, you'll build your own unique system for fitting creative work into your existing life, taking into consideration how you work best. Like a custom-designed, powered exoskeleton, your personal system will bolster and support your creative practice day in and day out, so that you can grow up and grow old while continuing to make your creative work...without chucking out all the other connections to your family and the world that make your life rich and worth living. GROWING GILLS: Breathe in the deep end. With your purchase of the ebook or print edition, you'll also get: <ul>
<li>The Growing Gills Workbook for free</li> <li>A checklist to identify what specifically stands in your way</li> <li>An invitation to a 5-day free minicourse where you'll build a plan to overcome those obstacles.</li> </ul>

Growing Gills

Self-Help

Creativity

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

.html by Jessica Abel Mirror, Window is the first book collection by Jessica Abel, one of the most exciting young cartoonists to emerge in the late 1990s. Collecting the first four issues of her Artbabe series from Fantagraphics and more, Mirror, Window proves Abel to be one of the brightest lights in comix to watch as we proceed into the next century. Abel's stories are peppered with hipsters, tattoos, piercings, trendy haircuts, and cutting-edge fashion, but don't let the generational trappings fool you. Her intuitive ear for dialogue and characterization has made Artbabe a hit amongst people of all ages, especially women. Mirror, Window collects several short stories focusing on the infinite ways that regret, insecurity, and euphoria manifest in relationships. b&amp;w, 6x10, 96pg

Mirror, Window (An Artbabe Collection)

Literature & Fiction

Fantagraphics Books

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