Jessica Abel

Matt Madden

A course on comics creation offers lessons on lettering, story, structure, panel layout, and much more, providing a solid introduction for people interested in making their own comics. Original.

Making Comics: Manga, Graphic Novels, and Beyond

Drawing Words and Writing Pictures

Presents a series of one-page comics that tell the same story in a variety of ways.

Exercises in Style

99 Ways to Tell a Story

A new course of material to accompany First Second’s widely acclaimed 2008 comics textbook. In their hotly anticipated follow-up to 2008’s comics textbook Drawing Words & Writing Pictures, School of Visual Arts cartooning professors Matt Madden and Jessica Abel bring their expertise to bear on the “second semester” of a course of study for the budding cartoonist. Covering advanced topics such as story composition, coloring, and file formatting, Mastering Comics is a vital companion to the introductory content of the first volume.

Drawing Words & Writing Pictures Continued

Mastering Comics

Neil Gaiman

Collects original comic strips from American authors and illustrators published in 2010 in graphic novels, newspapers, magazines, and on the Internet.

The Best American Comics 2010

You are looking at (or: you are holding) the book Ex Libris by Matt Madden. Maybe you came looking for it, maybe you just came across it in a bookstore or at someone's house. Maybe you are reading this in a catalogue on a screen. What kind of adventure do you think takes place in these pages? To judge by the cover design and the title, it would seem that books themselves are a subject of this book. Does this book have a comic book as its hero? If you put the book down now, you'll never find out, but on the other hand imaginary, hypothetical versions of the story will branch off endlessly in some corner of your mind. If you do want to find out what happens, all you need to do is open the book and read the first page. But be careful: you might just get sucked in

Ex Libris

Jeff Smith

Collects original comic strips from American authors and illustrators published in 2012 in graphic novels.

Best American comics 2013

99 ejercicios de estilo

Françoise Mouly

Presents excerpts from graphic novels, newspapers, webcomics, and other sources that feature the work of up-and-coming and established artists such as Charles Burns, Chester Brown, and Joyce Farmer.

The Best American Comics 2012

Alison Bechdel

Features excerpts from graphic novels, newspapers, webcomics, and other sources and features work by up-and-coming contributors as well as such established artists as Joe Sacco, Jeff Smith, and Dash Shaw.

The Best American Comics 2011

Charles Burns

Features excerpts from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the Web, including work by Tim Hensley, Ted Stearn, Art Spiegelman, and Chris Ware.

The Best American Comics 2009

Esercizi di stile. 99 modi di raccontare una storia

Lynda Barry

Celebrating the best in graphic storytelling and literary comics, a cutting-edge collection, guest edited by the award-winning author of the long-running comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek, features excerpts from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the Web, from Chris Ware, Seth, Alison Bechdel, and Matt Groening, among others.

The Best American Comics 2008

A Fine Mess

“When I started RAW magazine in the ’80s, there were mostly superheroes, a few children’s comics, and the dirty, intentionally lowbrow, underground comix. And now, comics can tackle any topic.”—Françoise Mouly, from the Introduction FEATURING Charles Burns, Chester Brown, Joyce Farmer, Chris Ware, Gary Panter, Sergio Aragonés, Christoph Niemann, Adrian Tomine, Sarah Varon, and others. This year with a sampler of comics for kids!

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