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From the all-time bestselling mind behind Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Daredevil, 300, and Sin City, Push the Wall is part memoir, part master class for budding artists and writers by one of the greatest living creators whose work has influenced pop culture for decades. Frank Miller is our greatest living comic book writer and…
Writing exercises and creativity advice from Barry’s pioneering, life-changing workshop The award-winning author Lynda Barry is the creative force behind the genre-defying and bestselling work What It Is. She believes that anyone can be a writer and has set out to prove it. For the past decade, Barry has run a highly popular writing workshop…
The bestselling, idiosyncratic curriculum from a 2019 MacArthur Fellow will teach you how to draw and write your story “The self-help book of the year.”–The New York Times Hello students, meet Professor Skeletor. Be on time, don’t miss class, and turn off your phones. No time for introductions, we start drawing right away. The goal…
Learn how to create manga from Hirohiko Araki–creator of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure and a master of the medium! Hirohiko Araki is the author of one of the longest-running and most beloved manga of all time, the epic fan favorite JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. According to him, manga is the ultimate synthesis of all forms of art,…
WANTED: Preferably alive! You miss a couple letters from your mom and suddenly there’s a bounty on your friends’ heads. Eugene needs to get back to the Kingdom of Marble, fast, or else Michel, Hocus, and Ani are going to be facing the business end of a dungeon. Along the way, Hocus and Ani detour…
“This epic deserves a place on the shelf next to Jeff Smith’s Bone series.” — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY“Masterful and immersive.” — FOREWORDEvan Dahm’s richly imaginative work of epic fantasy and culture clash is finally collected in a beautifully packaged four-volume trade edition! The river Ata grants the nomadic Fluters all they need to survive. That is…
Turn your ideas into graphic novels with this step-by-step guide–including drawing exercises Writing Graphic Novels For Dummies walks you through the process of graphic novel creation step-by-step, guiding you through the process of developing ideas, concepts, and visuals to bring your unique stories to life. Learn how to develop plots, characters, and storylines, create storyboards…
Every comic book writer brings their own format and style to the task. Here’s examples from some of the top names showing how they do it, including a Neil Gaiman script for Miracleman, a drawn script by Jeff Smith, a Jay & Silent Bob comic book script by filmmaker Kevin Smith, a script for Marvel’s…
Everything that you need to know about reading, making, and understanding comics can be found in a single Nancy strip by Ernie Bushmiller from August 8, 1959. Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden’s groundbreaking work How to Read Nancy ingeniously isolates the separate building blocks of the language of comics through the deconstruction of a single…
Multiple award-winner Roger Rosenblatt has received glowing critical acclaim for his exceptional literary works–from the hilarious novels Lapham Rising and Beet to his poignant, heartbreaking, ultimately inspiring memoir Making Toast. With Unless It Moves the Human Heart, the revered novelist, essayist, playwright, and respected writing teacher offers a guidebook for aspiring authors, a memoir, and…
101 TRUQUITOS DE INGLÉS QUE TE CAMBIARÁN LA VIDA (O, AL MENOS, TU FORMA DE SPEAK ENGLISH) Respondes el mítico «fine, thank you cuando te preguntan cómo estás? Confundes palabras que suenan igual y escribes igual palabras que son diferentes? Hay expresiones típicas que nunca sabes cómo decir o que se te quedan on the…
Voices from the Middle East on the fight for self-determination. Much of the present discourse about the pro-democracy Arab uprisings of 2011 paints a bleak picture of their defeat. But the truth is more complicated, and moments of struggle and inspiration still recur despite the overwhelming odds against the movements’ success. This collection of short…
Explore the Stories Behind the Legends Starting in 1968 when three classic Marvel anthologies were split into separate titles for Iron Man, Captain America, Sub-Mariner, The Hulk, Doctor Strange, and Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., Marvel began an explosive arc of growth which culminated in becoming America’s largest comics publisher in 1972. Marvel Explodes tells…
Comics icon Stan Lee, creator of the Mighty Marvel Universe, has set about to teach everything he knows about writing and creating comic book characters. In these pages, aspiring comics writers will learn everything they need to know about how to write their own comic book stories, complete with easy to understand instruction, tips of…
What is a literary genre? What are tropes? What genre does a creaky door suggest? Or a man and a woman stuck in an elevator? When should you use tropes? When should you avoid them? In this concise little book, educator Amy Jones outlines the archetypal genres of the literary world, illuminating them with classic…
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