Presents guidance for creating graphic novels, beginning with establishing characters and continuing through storytelling, drawing technique, composition, inking, coloring, lettering, and strategies for getting the finished product published.

Graphic novels.

Suitable for all abilities, from complete beginners to experienced artists. Covers all essential elements of making sequential art, including concept and composition, characters and backgrounds, expressions, emotion, atmosphere and action. This book gives

A guide to creating graphic novels.

Every kid worries about making friends at a new school, but when nine-year-old Bud accidentally catches the wrong bus and finds himself launched into deep space, new friends are the least of his problems! At Cosmos Academy, Bud learns that Earthlings are the most feared creatures in the galaxy, and even Earth's location has been hidden! With the help of his new friend, Gort, Bud goes undercover as a Tenarian exchange student. Unfortunately that means everyone thinks he's a pro at anti-gravity Zero-Ball (even though he's really only a pro at watching sports). And with paranoid Principal Lepton threat ening to expel any Earthlings (into outer space) and only Gort's hacked Blip computer to help them determine Earth's co-ordinates, will Bud ever find his way home?

Dramatized sequential illustrations with dialogueQan art form once confined to production of comic strips and comic booksQhave recently graduated into the popular, fast-growing, and often financially rewarding genre of the graphic novel. Now, this authoritative instruction manual offers more than 400 illustrations to take students step by step through the process of creating their own publication.Barron's Educational Series, Inc.

Graphic novels are one of the fastest growing areas of publishing and have enormous appeal across all age groups and across the world. This book is a complete guide to producing graphic novels, using a combination of writing and drawing skills. The author covers all stages of the process from conception through to publication. Step-by-step illustrations show how to combine narrative and visuals for maximum impact on the page, and how to create vibrant characters and realistic settings. A number of genres are covered, including: superhero, gothic horror/fantasy, adventure/action, sci-fi, crime, and literary fiction.

From first inspiration to publication, this book teaches budding graphic novelists how and where to translate their drawing and storytelling talents into digitally-realized art.160 pp.

A mentor in a book-author and former Disney animator Tom Bancroft shows how to pose and stage your characters to create drama, emotion, and personality.

Study the original scripts of the first two graphic novels of POWERS, the award-winning series created by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS and MICHAEL AVON OEMING, soon to be a television series on PlayStation Network. The perfect companion to BENDIS's Words for Pictures: The Art and Business of Writing Comics and Graphic Novels, the POWERS SCRIPTBOOK gives you a look behind the creation of a graphic novel from an angle few creators allow the audience to see.