Research Guides: Comics and Graphic Novels: Resources for Making Comics

Resources for Making Comics

There are numerous tools you can use to create comics of your own, from Microsoft PowerPoint to more advance programs such as Adobe Illustrator. There are also courses and books you can take to learn more about the art of authoring comics.

The Marquette Raynor Memorial Libraries Digital Scholarship Lab offers access to a host of graphic design software as well as tutors who can assist you in learning the ins and outs of the program.
The Center for Cartoon Studies offers a FREE seven-day email course designed to help build your cartooning muscles.
The library collection contains a number of books providing insight on how to make comics of your own:

The DC Comics Guide to Creating Comics by Carl Potts; Jim Lee (Foreword by)
Call Number: PN6710 .P68 2013
ISBN: 9780385344722
Publication Date: 2013
Check MARQCAT record for availability.
1,000 Ideas by 100 Manga Artists by Cristian Campos (Editor)
Publication Date: 2011
This book brings together 100 manga artists and asks each one to offer 10 practical tips for the manga enthusiast on techniques, sources of inspiration, and the best way to build their portfolios. Detailed photographs, 1,000 in total, taken by the artists themselves serve to illustrate each of these 1,000 tips.
Cool Cars / Cartooning by Jack Keely
Publication Date: 2008
Learn to draw muscle cars, street rods, customs, super cars, classics, and more! In this entertaining 32-page book, popular illustrator Jack Keely shows aspiring cartoonists how to draw a variety of cool cars-from classic beauties to custom roadsters.
Making Comics by Scott McCLOUD
Publication Date: 2006
McCloud focuses his analysis on the art form itself, exploring the creation of comics, from the broadest principles to the sharpest details (like how to accentuate a character's facial muscles in order to form the emotion of disgust rather than the emotion of surprise.)
Professional Manga by Steve Horton; Jeong Mo Yang
Publication Date: 2008
Combine high-end manga storytelling theory and advice with the tools for digital creation in Manga Studio, guided by expert professional manga-ka. Every ounce of theory is backed up with step-by-step manga illustrations and Manga Studio screenshots that show how these illustrations were created.

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