Kiowa County Public Library District

Shows how to create costumes reflecting characters' powers, how to design teams of heroes with interesting group dynamics, and how a character's past can contribute to a character's strengths and weaknesses.

"Make your own way through history! Readers will tackle seventy-one comic-creating challenges, with help from some of their favorite characters from the series! With each challenge, young cartoonists will learn new skills, from sound effects and character creation to building their own ten-page comic. The fun and imaginative drawing prompts will get kids writing their own thrilling, shocking, gruesome, and totally true histories!"--

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.

This guide teaches readers important techniques and encourages them to use their imaginations. Each step in creating graphic novel art is explained from beginning with pencil to ending.

In this action-packed cartooning adventure, kids will have as much fun making comics as reading them! Once upon a time . . . a princess tried to make a comic. And with the help of a magical cartooning elf, she learned how - well enough to draw her way out of an encounter with a dangerous dragon, near-death by drowning, and into her very own adventure! Like the princess, young readers will discover that they already have the drawing and writing skills...

Covers how to create your own original comic book characters, draw fight scenes, design special powers, and invent imaginary creatures, with a section on how the comic business works.

Provides step-by-step instructions on drawing the main character of a graphic novel or comic, providing examples of heroes, including a caped superhero and good cop.

A guide for young comics fans outlines the techniques needed to create one's own comics adventures, drawing on the author's fifteen-year experience with such series as Superman and Peter Parker to cover such elements as superheroes, villains, animals, and backgrounds. Comic books are more popular now than ever. Kids and adults avidly follow the tales of their favorite superheroes and now, the lessons in Comics Crash Course teach them the techniques...