Are you drawn to drawing your own world? Do you picture rows of frames, imagine scenes, come up with your own cast of characters and play those scenes out in your mind? Is there, somewhere near, a messy pile of graphic novels or comic books that you have poured over a hundred times or more? Have you, ever, imagined that your work could, one day, be found in one of those piles?
KRAK! WHOOSH!! SPLAT!!!! There is an art to Making Comics. Get graphic! Go comic!! Try your hand at Cartooning and Creating Comics from Start to Finish. See what Stan Lee’s How to Draw Comics is all about. Learn The Art of Urban Sketching. Pour over Manga for the Beginner. Then, get busy composing Words for Pictures and splash each page with speech bubbles that balloon and go pop! A Glossary of Comics Terminology and the Letterform Archive are essential tools to put in your power pack.
Before you know, it, SHAA-ZAAM! You, too, are the inker, the letterer, a penciller or all three! You can Make a Zine, Design a Comic Book Learning Path, devour The Everything Guide to Writing Graphic Novels and be on your way to sending your work to a publisher or figure out how to publish yourself by checking out The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing Comics.
Inspiration is key to every creation. Journey through the Comic Book History of Comics. View Comic Book Confidential and gain a deeper perspective into the worlds of cartooning, graphic novels and comics. Check out the resource list Write On!: Get Graphic! Go Comic! Draw yourself a new world!
This blog post is part of a multi-part series. Catch up with other posts: Write on!: The Very Personal Journey of Keeping a Journal; Write On! Nonfiction Writing Informs the World; Write On! A Story Only You Can Tell, Writing a Memoir; Write On! Crafting the Novel, Creating Imaginary Lives; Write On!: Get Moving, Write that Screenplay; Write On!: Writers Writing Life and The Last Note Begins with See Sharp: On Transforming Your Thoughts Into Poetry.
~ posted by Chris
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