Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
Learn How to . . .
- Choose the right moments to clarify and strengthen your stories.
- Frame actions and guide your readers' eyes through each comics page.
- Choose words and pictures that communicate together.
- Create varied and compelling new characters.
- Master body language and facial expressions.
- Create rich, believable worlds for your readers to explore.
- Pick the tools that are right for you.
- Navigate the vast world of comics styles and genres.
Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics was published in 1993, just as "Comics Aren't Just for Kids Anymore!" articles were starting to appear and graphic novels were making their way into the mainstream, and it quickly gave the newly respectable medium the theoretical and practical manifesto it needed. With his clear-eyed and approachable analysis--done using the same comics tools he was describing--McCloud quickly gave "sequential art" a language to understand itself. McCloud made the simplest of drawing decisions seem deep with artistic potential.
Thirteen years later, following the Internet evangelizing of Reinventing Comics, McCloud has returned with Making Comics.
Designed as a craftsperson's overview of the drawing and storytelling decisions and possibilities available to comics artists, covering everything from facial expressions and page layout to the choice of tools and story construction, Making Comics, like its predecessors, is also an eye-opening trip behind the scenes of art-making, fascinating for anyone reading comics as well as those making them. Get a sense of the range of his lessons by clicking through to the opening pages of his book, including his (illustrated, of course) table of contents (warning: large file, recommended for high-bandwidth users):
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34 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 19, 2008 Type: User Review |
An Excellent Book For Everyone
When my grandparents got me this book, I didn't think it could help me. I was looking for a "How to Draw" not a "How to Write". This book proved me so wrong. I couldn't believe how much fun it was to read, and it helped me a lot too. Almost...
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 15, 2008 Type: User Review |
As usual, high quality stuff
Well thought out, well written, quality throughout. I like this book the best so far; the previous weren't as appealing as this but were still very well done. The author really practices what he preaches as far as his message and the book speaks...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: May 04, 2008 Type: User Review |
Best Cartoon Instruction
This is the best cartooning and illustration
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| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 03, 2008 Type: User Review |
This book is not just for comic artist..
What I like about this book is the fact that it is not only instructional for comic book artists but also for all artists. He writes and draws to enhance what he is teaching so that it is not even noticed by the reader that he is being taught. I...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 01, 2008 Type: User Review |
Great if you're starting in comics or want to know where you might be going wrong
Great book for beginning comic artists. You will not be taught technical details for how to draw or lay out panels, but you will be shown how to pace comics, shown some basic face anatomy in the context of emotion, given a few inspirational tips...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Dec 31, 2007 Type: User Review |
Another eye-opener
Scott McCloud takes the insights that made him a celebrity in Understanding Comics and takes them further away in Making Comics, this time focusing in the craft itself. Much of his knowledge is useful not only to comic creators, but to people...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Dec 28, 2007 Type: User Review |
Review from a non comic book person's perspective
I definitely don't care to make comics and although I occasionally pick-up a random issue or a graphic novel, I really don't read them much either. I was mainly interested in this book because I heard of good things about it and I wanted to be...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Dec 23, 2007 Type: User Review |
An excellent primer on the art of storytelling
Understanding Comics was a brilliant deconstruction of comics. Reinventing Comics left me a little disappointed, but with Making Comics, Scott returns to his brilliant deconstruction of comics and this time, storytelling.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 30, 2007 Type: User Review |
A Must Read
A quick read, but a great one. This guide to the techniques of graphic story telling (a.k.a. comics) is presented almost entirely in comic book format, and is a must read for anyone interested in writing or drawing comics of any kind (series...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Aug 25, 2007 Type: User Review |
Fun to read and very informative
I read Understanding Comics and liked it so much I decided to check this book out as well, and found it to be even more enjoyable. McCloud's artwork is very fun and whimsical, his writing is humorous and he puts many concepts about the writing...
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