Comic Strips

Comic Strips
Author: Art Roche
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781579907884

Kids love comic strips…and now they can devise their own imaginative illustrations and stories with the help of a professional artist who designs for the Cartoon Network. He provides advice on the basic tools and materials; demonstrates how to construct bodies and faces; explains how to come up with appealing characters and build an ensemble cast; and provides ideas for fine-tuning the finished work with proper inking techniques, shading, and color use. There are loads of practical tips and hands-on activities to hone technique, along with tutorials on writing jokes. Plus, Roche gives the low-down on the big business of comic strips, including suggestions for getting published. To top it off, readers watch as the author produces a brand-new strip, from start to finish.

Nexus Newspaper Strips Volume 1: The Coming of Gourmando

Nexus Newspaper Strips Volume 1: The Coming of Gourmando
Author: Mike Baron
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1506714404

Something long dormant beneath the surface of Ylum comes alive, triggering a visit from the planet-devouring Gourmando and his mysterious ally. With powers far beyond those of even Nexus himself, this unstoppable being banishes Nexus to an unknown realm--and the only way out is to face one's worst fears! Mike Baron and Steve Rude deliver a new Nexus adventure in this special collection that also includes the newly-remastered "Nexus: The Origin" comic and the classic Rude hand-painted Sundra story, "When She was Young."

The Sequential Artists Workshop Guide to Creating Professional Comic Strips

The Sequential Artists Workshop Guide to Creating Professional Comic Strips
Author:
Publisher: Alternative Comics
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2016-07-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1681485087

This is the book you need if you have any interest in making good comic strips. An 83-page book on the comic strip from “What size do I draw?” to conceiving ideas to drawing and inking and coloring. The SAW Guide to Making Professional Comic Strips is a complete how-to manual for making the best comic strips you can, from conception to idea generation to layout, lettering, finishing, coloring and even selling. From an experienced professional comic strip artist (Hutch Owen, Ali's House), the book is loaded with examples and instruction as well as personal stories within the industry.

Mad about Comic Strips

Mad about Comic Strips
Author: Nick Meglin
Publisher: MAD Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: American wit and humor
ISBN: 9781401200954

MAD ABOUT COMIC STRIPS collects MAD Magazine's best comic strip satires fora chronological look at the last 50 years, as seen through the eyesof "The Usual Gang of Idiots"- including: Bob Clarke, Desmond Devlin,Duck Edwing, Frank Jacobs, Stan Hart, Al Jaffee, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Rickard,Angelo Torres, Sam Viviano, and Wally Wood.

The American Comic Book

The American Comic Book
Author: Joseph Michael Sommers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN: 9781619252264

The popular American comic book is considered in this volume of Critical Insights. From their creation in the 1930s to the widespread popularity of comic book heroes today, this literary form continues to delight and entertain readers. This volume offers a collection of original essays that will establish for students and their teachers an exemplary representation of American comics as a field of study within American literature.

Reading the Funnies

Reading the Funnies
Author: Donald Phelps
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2001-05-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1560973684

The comic strip has been a staple of American newspapers for nearly a century. It is a creation unique to cultural life and, in addition to entertainment, has commented on the way we see and view ourselves. From its high culture influence on Pop Art to its low culture appeal to children of all ages, the comic strip has had a lasting hold on the imaginations of generations. Noted writer Donald Phelps provides essays on popular classics, such as Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, E.C. Segar's Thimble Theatre (which produced Popeye), and Frank King's Gasoline Alley. His keen eye discerns the sublime qualities of this most American art form with wit and refreshing candor. Reading the Funnies offers an elegant and eloquent look into this fascinating slice of American popular culture.

From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels

From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels
Author: Daniel Stein
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2015-04-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110427729

This essay collection examines the theory and history of graphic narrative as one of the most interesting and versatile forms of storytelling in contemporary media culture. Its contributions test the applicability of narratological concepts to graphic narrative, examine aspects of graphic narrative beyond the ‘single work’, consider the development of particular narrative strategies within individual genres, and trace the forms and functions of graphic narrative across cultures. Analyzing a wide range of texts, genres, and narrative strategies from both theoretical and historical perspectives, the international group of scholars gathered here offers state-of-the-art research on graphic narrative in the context of an increasingly postclassical and transmedial narratology. This is the revised second edition of From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels, which was originally published in the Narratologia series.