Creating Comics: A Writer's and Artist's Guide and Anthology

by Sean Prentiss, Chris Gavaler, Leigh Ann Beavers, et al.

Book Overview

For the creative writer comic and graphic storytelling forms can offer unique opportunities for expression - but unique challenges, too. Creating Comics: A Writer's and Artist's Guide and Anthology brings together in one volume an authoritative guide to writing comics with an anthology of comic book pages demonstrating the art, craft, conventions and possibilities of graphic forms.

Creating Comics: A Writer's Guide and Anthology covers:

- Key elements of comic forms - panels, frames, gutters, and pages
- The image - visual storytelling and world-building
- The relationship between image and text
- Narrators and narrative
- The theory and practice of creating comics - with practical drawing exercises throughout

Fully integrated with the main guide, the anthology section includes work by creators such as: Alison Bechdel, Leela Corman, Julie Doucet, William Hogarth and many others.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350092819
• ISBN13: 9781350092815
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"