LW 415 : Creating a Comic Book (Literature and Writing: Smyth)

Course:

LW 415 : Creating a Comic Book

Institution:

MassArt

Instructor:

Smyth, Maura

Department:

Literature and Writing

Items

On reserve at a library:

1. Drawing words & writing pictures : making comics : manga, graphic novels, and beyond / Jessica Abel & Matt Madden.
2. Encyclopedia of early Earth / a graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg.
3. Making comics : storytelling secrets of comics, manga and graphic novels / Scott McCloud.
4. Mastering comics : drawing words and writing pictures continued : a definitive course in comics narrative / Jessica Abel & Matt Madden.
5. Why art? / Eleanor Davis.

Available online:

1. (Abel/Madden) "11.1: Panel Design, pgs 150-153" from Drawing Words & Writing Pictures.
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2. (Abel/Madden) "5.2: to build a better comic, pgs. 82-95" from Mastering Comics.
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3. (Abel/Madden) "6.2: Laying out pages, tiers, and panels, pgs. 77-83" from Drawing Words & Writing Pictures.
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4. (Abel/Madden) "Excerpt: pgs. 24-39, 258-262" from Mastering Comics.
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5. (Barry) "Excerpts, pgs. 36-37, 60-66" from Making Comics
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6. (Barry) "Excerpts, pgs. 60-63, 83" from Syllabus
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