When trying to find your footing in comics and build a portfolio, the answer is often “just make comics!” but what does that entail? We dive into the world of short stories and zines to help teach you to hone your craft, try different genres, and create comics with no barriers. Join Ardo Omer as…
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Audio: Comics 201 – Getting Started in Comics (Once You’ve Already Gotten Started)
Links for Writers
With the idea of continuing to promote, encourage, and support the writing community. Here are some excellent links to help writers learn. To discover more about the industry, scripting, and what to expect when writing and making comic books. This list is updated regularly, so check back periodically. FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR CHUCK WENDIG’S BLOG: On…
Comic Book Creative Teams: Who’s Who And What Do They Do?
This week’s piece is all about understanding who does what in a comic book. There are numerouspeople involved in making a comic book happen so we’ll going to list out some of the major ones for you. Typically in the credits of a book, especially superhero comics, you’ll see a number of creators listed. You may…
A Glossary of Comic Book Terminology
For this week’s How To Get Into Comics, I wanted to cover something that can confuse a lot of people: terminology. Below you’ll find a list of a number of different terms that are broken up into different categories to help things make more sense. COMIC BOOK ROLES AND CREATIVE TEAMS This list of terms breaks…
Where to Get Comic Books
Shop in Featured Banner above is Page & Panel in Toronto, Canada For this week’s How To Get Into Comics, we’re going to be talking about places that you can get your comic book fix. There are tons of options for you that start at the low, low price of FREE! Of course, some of these options do require that…
Creator Interviews: Lettering with Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
We had a chance to chat with creator extraordinaire, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou to ask him some questions about lettering and what his process is like. Hassan is a comic book letterer on such works as Shanghai Red, Red Sonja, Lone Ranger, Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt, Black Mage, and more. He is also the Eisner-nominated editor of PanelxPanel, is a…
#NewCreatorAdvice Part One
Jimmy Palmiotti recently started a hashtag in an effort to help creators get advice from other comic creators based on their experiences in the industry. https://twitter.com/jpalmiotti/status/1087734998306832386 In an effort to help get all of that out there for folks who may not be on Twitter, we wanted to collect some of those tweets into a…
Comic Books 101: Where to Start
As mentioned in my introduction post, How To Get Into Comics is an ongoing column that’s dedicated to helping new readers come to the medium. There’s a lot of stuff to go through so I’ll do my best to be thorough and as comprehensive as possible (without treading into overwhelming territory). Before I dive in, just know that…
Letter of Agreement for Freelance Editors
We’ve had many requests to expand our content for comic book editors (freelance and otherwise). Editing in comics can be pretty extensive, especially for those who oversee the artwork and the scheduling as well (we’ll touch on this in another post later). As an editor in comics, it’s equally important to have a contract established…