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DIY for ASPIRING ARTISTS, CARTOONISTS and GRAPHIC NOVELISTS

Jessica Abel's DIY guide to making comics

Mike Chinn
Writing and Illustrating the Graphic Novel:
Everything You Need to Know to Create Great Graphic Works.

Barron's Educational Series, 2004

Michael Dooley and Steven Heller , eds.,
The Education of a Comics Artist.
Allworth Press, 2005

Will Eisner
Graphic Storytelling:
The Definitive Guide to Composing a Visual Narrative

Poorhouse Press, 1996

Will Eisner,
Comics and Sequential Art:
Principles and Practices of the World's Most Popular Art Form! Poorhouse Press, 1994

Scott McCloud,
Understanding Comics
Harper, 1994

Scott McCloud
Reinventing Comics
Harper, 2000

Scott McCloud,
Making Comics.
Harper, 2006 (forthcoming in September)

Teaching Comics: exercises for new cartoonists

David Chelsea,
Perspective! for Comic Book Artists
Watson-Guptill Publications, 1997

Klaus Janson,
The DC Comics Guide to Pencilling Comics
Watson-Guptill Publications, 2002

Klaus Janson
The DC Comics Guide to Inking Comics
Watson-Guptill Publications, 2003

Mark Chiarello
The DC Comics Guide to Coloring and Lettering Comics
Watson-Guptill Publications, 2004

Dennis O’Neil
The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics
Watson-Guptill Publications, 2001

Lee Nordling,
Your Career in the Comics.
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1995

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