How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way
How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way | |
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![]() Cover art by John Buscema | |
Date | 1978 |
Page count | 192 pages |
Publisher | Marvel Fireside Books |
Creative team | |
Writers | Stan Lee |
Pencillers | John Buscema |
Original publication | |
Date of publication | 1978 |
Language | English |
ISBN | 978-0671530778 |
How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way is a book by Stan Lee and John Buscema. The book teaches the aspiring comic book artist how to draw and create comic books. The examples are from Marvel Comics and Buscema artwork.[1][page needed] It was first published in 1978 by Marvel Fireside Books and has been reprinted regularly. The book created a generation of cartoonists who learned there was a "Marvel way to draw and a wrong way to draw".[2][page needed] It is considered "one of the best instruction books on creating comics ever produced."[3][page needed]
Some[who?] believe the "exercises in the book are silly with its stick figures, cylinders, cubes, and storytelling."[4][page needed] Scott McCloud has cited the book as a good reference for teaching the process of making comic books.[5][page needed]
Lee and Buscema also created a video version of the book which is now on DVD.[citation needed]
See also[]
- Marvel Premiere Classics
- The Official Marvel Try-Out Book
- Stan Lee
References[]
- ^ Lee, Stan Buscema, John (1978), How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way. Simon & Schuster Inc.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- ^ Wolk, Douglas (2007), Reading comics: how graphic novels work and what they mean. Da Capo Press.
- ^ Hamilton, Sue (1978), Comic Book Creators, John Buscema. ABDO Publishing Company.
- ^ Steed, Paul (2005), Modeling a character in 3ds max. Wordware publishing Inc.
- ^ McCloud, Scott (2006), Making comics: storytelling secrets of comics, manga and graphic novels.
External links[]
- Books about visual art
- Marvel Comics titles
- Books about comics
- Handbooks and manuals
- Works by Stan Lee
- Marvel Comics title stubs