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Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Offers advice for effective storytelling in comic book format, covering such topics as color, placement, pacing, visually representing ideas, and other techniques for short gag strips as well as graphic novels and other more involved storylines.
5) In limbo
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2024 - Young Adults
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Young Adults
Immigrant Heritage Month - Young Adults
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Young Adults
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"Ever since Deborah (Jung-Jin) Lee emigrated from South Korea to the United States, she's felt her otherness. For a while, her English wasn't perfect. Her teachers can't pronounce her Korean name. Her face and her eyes--especially her eyes--feel wrong. In high school, everything gets harder. Friendships change and end, she falls behind in classes, and fights with her mom escalate. Caught in limbo, with nowhere safe to go, Deb finds her mental health...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of the creative process of writing a comic book, discussing scripts, page layout and design, space relationships, camera angles, character acting, inking, coloring, and other related topics; and includes tips for aspiring authors and illustrators.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The story traces the lives and techniques of Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon, RipKirby), Stan Drake (Juliet Jones), Hal Foster (Prince Valiant), and more, dissecting their techniques through recreations of their artwork,and highlighting the metatextual resonances that bind them together"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Description
In this debut novel, acclaimed short-story author Tim Pratt delivers an exciting heroine with a hidden talent'and a secret duty. Witty and suspenseful, here is a contemporary love song to the West that was won and the myths that shape us'. As night manager of Santa Cruz's quirkiest coffeehouse, Marzi McCarty makes a mean espresso, but her first love is making comics. Her claim to fame: The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, a cowpunk neo-western yarn....
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Stan Lee's Master Class is open for enrollment! The man who brought to life the most beloved comic book heroes of all time -- the Avengers, Fantastic Four, X-Men, and more -- shares how to elevate your comics by exploring techniques for drawing human (and superhuman) anatomy, complex world-building and storytelling, using perspective and space, and more. Once you've learned all the necessary skills, Lee puts your training to the ultimate test with...
Author
Series
Cat Kid Comic Club volume 4
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
"Excitement and imagination run wild as Naomi, Melvin, Poppy, Gilbert, Curly, and their siblings get back to making comics with originality and laughter. But wait--have they cleaned their rooms yet? After their chores, the rambunctious group presents even more amazing mini-comics. By working together, the baby frogs discover that small things can have a huge impact"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Thirty-two-year-old Tohno Naruhiko has been scraping by as a manga creator for ten years, and when his latest series gets canceled, he finds himself at a crossroads. Tohno's always had his sights set on fantasy, but this time around, his editor's got another idea-a slice-of-life story set in a remote village not unlike the one where he was born and raised. Could a return to his roots be exactly the change of pace our reclusive manga creator needs?"--Provided...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After ten years of false starts, Naruhiko Yoshino's new manga series is garnering sales little by little. Now, the guy who's never left his secluded island home and never even had a drawing assistant is getting his own autograph event. What's going to happen when he travels to Tokyo to meet his fans?"--Provided by publisher
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The definitive biography of the beloved-often controversial-co-creator of many legendary superheroes, A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee presents the origin of "Stan the Man," who spun a storytelling web of comic book heroic adventures into a pop culture phenomenon: the Marvel Universe. Stan Lee was the most famous American comic book creator who ever lived. Thanks, especially, to his many cameos in Marvel movies and TV shows, Lee was-and...
14) Making comics
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"For more than five years the cartoonist Lynda Barry has been an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison art department and at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, teaching students from all majors, both graduate and undergraduate, how to make comics, how to be creative, how to not think. There is no academic lecture in this classroom. Doodling is enthusiastically encouraged. Making Comics is the follow-up to Barry's bestselling...
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