[Artemesia Posts: 3,790 Status: Offline]

I started a similar thread on the Illustration board, and it seemed useful, so I thought we could use a similar resource thread here so it's all in one place. If you know of a great book or website or other resource, please add it to the list!

WRITING AND ILLUSTRATING THE GRAPHIC NOVEL by Mike Chinn

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FIGURE DRAWING FOR COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS by Daniel Clooney

UNDERSTANDING COMICS by Scott McCloud

[kategoka]

Here's one more I found.

Writing and Illustrating the Graphic Novel by Daniel Cooney (Barrons, 2011).

[deborah-maier Posts: 1 Status: Offline I love kids' books!]

The best I have seen so far, in terms of technique certainly, are
Drawing Words and Writing Pictures


and
Mastering Comics


---which is the sequel. Both are by the incomparable Jessica Abel and Matt Madden. Their website is very useful too:

dw_wp.com


Deborah M

[amanda-lillywhite Posts: 1 Status: Offline I love kids' books!]

I have a lot of affection for Will Eisner's Comics & Sequential Art.

Scott McCloud has a great website http://scottmccloud.com/

[ems Posts: 12 Status: Offline I love kids' books!]

These are great resources! Thank you for posting them. They are great to know about, a big help.

[Artemesia Posts: 3,790 Status: Offline]

Thanks for bumping this thread!

I have MAKING COMICS by Scott McCloud on order. I'm supposed to get it Tuesday. I really liked his Understanding Comics.

I've been taking some illustration courses at SVS ( https://svslearn.com/#%2F ) one of which was their How To Draw Comics course. They base it on the books by Scott McCloud and Will Eisner. Great course, and now that they do subscriptions i find it really affordable.

Another supposed to be good how to (that I haven't read yet) is FRAMED INK by Marcos Mateu-Mestre.

[Dionna]

Are these resources well-suited for writers who are not illustrators?

[Artemesia Posts: 3,790 Status: Offline]

Dionna, some are definitely artist oriented, but writing for GNs is a very visual process. A writer would likely get something useful out of them all. I do recommend Scott McCloud's books (mentioned on your other thread) for anyone, writer or illustrator, looking to learn about graphic novels.

[marla-lesage Posts: 383 Status: Offline Write. Illustrate. Revise.]

California College of the Arts is offering a Free Course via Kadenze, with Instructor Matt Silady. I've found it helpful.
 https://www.cca.edu/file/comics-art-relationship

[carmen-wood Posts: 1 Status: Offline]

I found this super interesting - Victoria Jameson on "The Making of Roller Girl". She walks you through her whole process!
http://www.victoriajamieson.com/free-e-book/

[marla-lesage Posts: 383 Status: Offline Write. Illustrate. Revise.]

Some more resources:

Graphic Novel Proposals:
   article by agent Maria Vicente: http://www.mariavicente.com/blog/query-graphic-novels
   article by author/illustrator Nilah Magruder: https://subitclub.com/2017/11/16/anatomy-of-a-graphic-novel-pitch/

A list of resources from author/illustrator Faith Erin Hicks (including behind-the-scene peeks, sample script, etc): https://faitherinhicks.tumblr.com/post/59801315697/making-comics-master-link-list

[susan-hughes1 Posts: 54 Status: Offline Author, editor (critiques/dev edits), story coach]

Thanks, Marla. These are really helpful!

Susan

[andy-nordvall Posts: 12 Status: Offline I love kids' books!]

Another resource, if you want a good selection of sample comic scripts, there's a whole database of them at <https://www.comicsexperience.com/scripts/>