Creating Comics: A Writer's and Artist's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies) - Softcover

Chris Gavaler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350092819 ISBN 13: 9781350092815

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Synopsis

For the creative writer comic and graphic storytelling forms can offer unique opportunities for expression but unique challenges, too. Creating Comics: A Writers Guide and Anthology brings together in one volume an authoritative guide to writing comics with an anthology of comic book pages demonstrating the art, craft, conventions and possibilities of graphic forms. Creating Comics: A Writers Guide and Anthology covers: · Key elements of comic forms panels, frames, gutters, and pages · The image visual storytelling and world-building · The relationship between image and text · Narrators and narrative · The theory and practice of creating comics with practical drawing exercises throughout Fully integrated with the main guide, the anthology section includes work by creators such as: Alison Bechdel, Leela Corman, Julie Doucet, William Hogarth and many others.

About this title

About the Author

Chris Gavaler is Assistant Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, USA. He is also the author of On the Origin of Superheroes: From the Big Bang to Action Comics No. 1 (2015). Leigh Ann Beavers is Instructor of Art at Washington and Lee University, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350092819
• ISBN 13: 9781350092815
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336