Create Your Own Comics! - by Ned Hartley (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Playfully illustrated and packed with story ideas, drawing tips, creative prompts, and fun suggestions, this beginner-friendly guide is all you need to bring your imagination to the page and make your own comics!

The only beginner-friendly guide you'll ever need to create your own comics!

Learn the building blocks of comics and how to use them: panels, speech bubbles, splash pages, sound effects, and more. Find out how to create comics in different styles and genres, from funny to scary and superheroes to monsters. Once you master the basics, practice your new skills by using the story generator tool. Get your imagination pumping and come up with unique stories of your very own!

This isn't just page after page of blank comic pages. It's a comprehensive guide to what makes comics work, with templates to guide your choices, and hints for getting the best out of your own story ideas.

PLUS: Bonus drawing lessons from top Andrews McMeel Kids cartoonists Dana Simpson, Lincoln Pierce, and Li Chen!

Perfect for ages 8-12!

About the Author

Ned Hartley writes comics and books for children. You can read his work in the Beano comic every week. Ned has written lots of books including the best-selling Marvel Origins: Spider-Man, The Ladybird Big Book of Dead Things, Together We Can, Great Lives: Albert Einstein, Marvel: the Science of Superheroes, The Marvel Museum and loads more, many of them about superheroes and comics. He's also written comics for 2000AD, Monster Fun and Wallace & Gromit Comics. He lives in London with his wife and two children.

Alex Lopez, born in 1976 in Sabadell, a city near Barcelona (Spain), has over 15 years of experience as a professional illustrator. His work and books have been published in many countries including USA, UK, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy and Turkey. Alex has also created illustrations for educational books, marketing and video games, mostly for children and teenagers. Alex is often asked what his secret is. His answer is simple: listening to music and eating chocolate.