Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Presents instructions for mastering the creation of comic books and graphic novels, providing guidelines for the intermediate cartoonist on technique, story generation, narrative tools, and business and industry insights.

Product Description: “If you have spent a long time resisting the status quo—whether it’s in art, society, or the political world—what happens when that status quo at last gives way? A universe of possibility opens up.” —Alison Bechdel, from the Introduction Featuring: Gabrielle Bell, Joe Sacco, Dash Shaw, Sabrina Jones, Chris Ware, Jillian Tamaki, Jaime Hernandez, Jeff Smith, Paul Pope, Kevin Huizenga, and others...read more

Product Description: "A gold mine of essential information for every aspiring comics artist. Highly recommended." --Scott McCloud Drawing Words and Writing Pictures is a course on comic creation – for college classes or for independent study – that centers on storytelling and concludes with making a finished comic...read more

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

Product Description: Graphic novel