How to Make Awesome Comics

by Neill Cameron

Overview

Part comic book, part coloring & activity book...100% fun! An accessible, cool, and engrossing guide for younger readers to creating their own comics and graphic novels.

Want to have awesome ideas, every time? Feel like turning your ideas into amazing stories? And ever wish you could make your creations come alive with incredible artwork? If any of these things sounded cool to you, then How to Make Awesome Comics is the perfect book to help you on your way to comics/cartooning genius. Let Professor Panels and Art Monkey take you through every step you'll need to be on your way!From the very basics (coming up with your stories and characters, learning how to draw) to more advanced levels (making art and text work together well, what makes a good villain, creating your own books from paper), How to Make Awesome Comics is a comprehensive and can't-put-down guide for every burgeoning artist, all from the mind of accomplished comic book-maker Neill Cameron.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338132731
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	05/09/2017
Pages:	64
Sales rank:	419,785
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	GN590L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Neill Cameron is a cartoonist and writer, creator of How to Make Awesome Comics. Since 2011 his work has appeared in the weekly children's comic The Phoenix, where he produces - amongst other things - the robotic soap opera comedy Mega Robo Bros, and (with artist Kate Brown) the Cornish-set fantasy drama Tamsin and the Deep. Neill is also currently artist in residence at The Story Museum in Oxford, where he has contributed several large-scale comic strip installations and is involved in comics-based education and activities. You can find him online at http://www.neillcameron.com.

Editorial Reviews

2017-03-06
A cheerful guide offering a beginner's course in designing comics.Wearing a crisp lab coat with a pen in the pocket and horn-rimmed spectacles, Professor Panels, an anthropomorphized speech bubble, and simian assistant Art Monkey delve into the nuances of making comics. Broken down into 21 "awesome" lessons, they cover such topics as drawing instruction, gathering ideas, structuring a story, character development, and constructing a comic book. Contained within each lesson are activities to be completed within the book, alongside others that can be done beyond its pages. Appendices offer readers a few extra drawing how-tos. Professor Panels is the straight shooter who presents the basic ideas and is delightfully offset by Art Monkey, who keeps the tone light with an occasional fart joke. With each lively lesson spanning only a page or two and splashed with a vibrant palette of colors, the instructions are simple and inviting. Seasoned comics veterans might fare better elsewhere; covering the most rudimentary of steps from having a writing utensil to how to fold paper to create a pamphlet, this lighthearted manual is best suited for a younger audience or those who are totally new to comics and looking for a jumping-in point. A friendly and engaging orientation for emerging comics creators, although the activity pages make this one for home collections rather than library use. (appendices) (Graphic nonfiction. 6-10)

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