For creative writers and artists, comics provide unique opportunities for expression - butunique challenges, too. Creating Comics brings together in one volume an authoritative guideto the creative process, with practical drawing exercises throughout and an anthology ofcomics demonstrating the eclectic possibilities of the form.Creating Comic covers:Using images to conceive and develop characters and storiesThe complete range of possible relationships between two imagesThe step-by-step structure of visual narrativesHow to approach each page like a unique canvasCombining words and images to create new meaningsFully integrated with the main guide, the anthology section includes work by creatorsincluding: Lynda Barry, Alison Bechdel, Jaime Hernandez, Marjane Satrapi, Adrian Tomine,and many others.Some comics-making texts are aimed at writers who are sure they can't draw, and a few areaimed at artists who are sure they can't craft a narrative from beginning to end. This is thefirst textbook on creating comics that not only gives writing and art equal weight, butdemonstrates that they are inextricable from each other during the creation process. At amoment when comics-making curricula are enjoying a big surge in popularity, a diversity ofhow-tos (and why-tos) will allow students a necessary diversity of ways into making the bettercomics they want to see in the world. The brilliant anthology section would be a wholeeducation in itself. The fact that the anthology works are cited and contextualized alongdifferent axes throughout the book makes this volume truly indispensable for any scholar ofgraphic narrative's potential. Miriam Libicki, Real Gone Girl Studios, Canada