Creating Comics from Start to Finish: Top Pros Reveal the Complete Creative Process
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Creating Comics from Start to Finish: Top Pros Reveal the Complete Creative Process Details
About the Author Buddy Scalera is a comic and graphic novel writer, and he was the creator and editor of Wizard Entertainment's WizardWorld.com and WizardSchool.com websites. He is also known for his photography as the author of the bestselling Comic Artist's Photo Reference series (IMPACT Books) and CD-ROM series Visual Reference for Comic Artists. He also self-publishes with After Hours Press. Scalera has hosted sessions on creating comics at WizardSchool.com online and Wizard School workshops at WizardWorld conventions; and he also wrote and hosted ComixVision, a cable TV show explaining the comic hobby, for over four years. Visit his website www.buddlyscalera.com. Read more
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Buddy introduces comics from a business-oriented perspective and puts it in a much wider context for potential writers/artists.The book will give you a rough idea of how many people/steps are involved in creating and distributing a single issue of comic (I think this is what he meant by from start to finish). You will also get some tips on how to break into the comic business. Nonetheless, if you are interested in techniques and procedures of creating comics. You had better go to other references in the books including those from Will Eisner and Scott Mccloud. The book is also a bit long-winded.For my purpose, I like the scope of the book since I am considering using comics as a medium for a teaching and learning aid for designers who are more visual than non-designers. Nonetheless, a lot of efforts seem to be needed to translate a single page of instructions into several pages of comics. I guess it also depends on the style I choose for implementation.BTW, I got the kindle version of the book for free. So, I should not have any complaints. I am sure the hardcopy version has much better illustration. There are quite a lot of formatting issues with the kindle version (e.g. space break within a word and concatenated quotations). Please take a note of them when revising.
