I liked Scott McCloud's Making Comics a lot better than the previous Reinventing Comics. I didn't find it as cool as I did Understanding Comics way back in the mid-90s, though that's probably also because I hadn't read a lot of other comic meta yet, and also the format was really unusual then ( Read more... )

A while back I posted about women characters in the Wizard How To Draw: Character Creation, however what I didn't really notice at the time (and that says a lot about my own blind spots), but which leapt out to me today when I happened to leaf through it, is that once again there are no non-white characters in the whole thing. Okay, that is not ( Read more... )

This is a scan from Wizard How To Draw: Character Creation, from the chapter Super Women

( one scan, about 85k )

Since there seemed to be interest, I scanned a few more pages, i.e. the sections on dramatic tension, on emotional impact and on tension & pacing.

( there are ten fairly large page scans behind the cut )

A couple of people expressed interest in taking a look at the Wizard How To Draw: Storytelling book I mentioned, so I scanned two sections which I found quite interesting and which also might be useful as background for comic meta and such, i.e. Pacing a Scene and Pacing an Issue.

( there are eight fairly large page scans behind the cut )

The answers to cereta's questions:

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To keep track of minor characters through DC crossovers drawn by several different artists it would be really helpful, if each character kept the same appearance, hair color, and general skin tone through out. I mean for example in Robin #86 Vincent Del Arrazzio has sometimes brown sometimes blond hair, not black though, in Detective Comics #754 ( Read more... )

In an earlier entry I already mentioned that I like the current team better than Scott McDaniel's art. And now reading them in contrast brought home the main reason why that is: McDaniel's art is very dynamic, and I like the way he draws some of the action sequences and Nightwing's movements even a bit better than Lenonardi/Delperdang's version of ( Read more... )