Draw a Comic! (Maker Comics Series)

by JP Coovert

Overview

Maker Comics is the ultimate DIY guide. Inside JP Coovert's graphic novel you will find illustrated instructions for seven comic book projects!

The International Comics Library is in a lot of trouble! If Maggie can’t come up with $500,000 in a week, Dr. Carl is going to bulldoze her grandfather’s library and turn it into a parking lot! To save the day, she’ll need all her comic drawing skills, the loyal library watchdog, and her new assistant (that’s you!).

With Maker Comics: Draw a Comic! you'll learn to create and print your own comics books! Follow these simple steps to sketch out your story ideas and ink a comic page. Learn which art supplies are best for drawing comics—you can use a pen, a brush, or even a computer! With the help of photocopy machine, you can even self-publish your own comics and share them with your friends!

In this book you will learn how to:
write a comic script draw a comic strip draw and print a one-page comic create thumbnail sketches pencil a comic ink a comic print and bind a multi-page comic

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250152121
Publisher:	First Second
Publication date:	10/22/2019
Series:	Maker Comics Series
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	524,110
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	GN700L (what's this?)
Age Range:	9 - 13 Years

About the Author

JP Coovert lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he spends his time making as much rad artwork as possible. On the side, he co-runs a record and comic label called One Percent Press. He's written and drawn almost fifty comics, including his ongoing series, Simple Routines. JP Wants to create cool stuff forever, like illustrating every animal on the planet, creating a library full of kids books, and painting a mural on the moon!

Editorial Reviews

11/08/2019

Gr 4–8—A knowledgeable artist, her plucky pooch, and you (yes, you!) save the Comics Library while mastering the medium in this instructional work of graphic nonfiction. Maggie and her anthropomorphic dog, Rex, are reinvigorating the Comics Library in an anytown where you, the reader, have agreed to serve as their assistant. When dastardly developer Dr. Carl Stephens threatens to replace the library with a parking lot, the protagonists embark on a treasure hunt to save it. Maggie and several local entrepreneurs walk readers through the basics of making comics: scripting, drawing, penciling and inking, and printing. Fans of the publisher's "Science Comics" will appreciate the "Maker Comics" series, which use simple stories as framing devices for ambitious how-to guides. As a graphic novel attempting to teach kids how to create this very format, the book faces—and clears—an especially high bar. Although Coovert relies on digital tools to craft a volume largely about analog methods, he compensates with his tidy aesthetic; warm palette; diverse, gender-ambiguous cast; and accessible examples. While the narrative isn't so thin as to feel contrived, it's easily eclipsed by the step-by-step tutorials at the book's core, where Coovert's instructional images and concise text shine. Supplementary materials, including a glossary of comics terminology and a further reading list, round out this clarion call to expertly draw it yourself. VERDICT An approachable heir to the work of Scott McCloud for a new generation of budding comics artists.—Steven Thompson, Sadie Pope Dowdell Library, South Amboy, NJ

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