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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Weight: 608g
Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
Publication Date: 28 Jan 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781350092815
About Dr Chris GavalerLeigh Ann Beavers
Chris Gavaler is Assistant Professor of English at W&L University USA. He is also the author of On the Origin of Superheroes (2015) Superhero Comics (2017) Superhero Thought Experiments (2019 with Nathaniel Goldberg) Revising Fiction Fact and Faith: A Philosophical Account (2020 with Goldberg) and The Comics Form (forthcoming). Leigh Ann Beavers is a visual artist whose work combines reconciliation ecology with multi-media drawing installation. She holds a BFA in Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University an MFA in Graphics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and teaches drawing and printmaking at W&L University.