The ultimate guide for anyone who wants to write dynamic comics, Writing for Comics With Peter David teaches readers how to create comics from start to finish. This essential guide:
-Provides easy-to-understand guidance for beginners, as well as seasoned advice for intermediate comics writers
-Features the expert instruction of highly successful Marvel and DC writer Peter David, whose credits include Spider-Man, Wolverine and the Hulk
-Includes illustrations throughout from major comic publishers, showing readers the creation process from start to finish
With an eye-catching package and superior advice, this book is a must have for anyone who wants to write comics or graphic novels.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Great Book:
This is a masterful lesson on writing stories, period. I'm reading and rereading David's book and taking away something new each time.
Impact books are usually bad for the most part:
Peter David is a good writer but when it comes to giving instructions like in this book he falls short. Too much technical stuff and no magic which makes PAD intersting in the first place. Your better off reading his blog then buying this book :)
Excellent how-to for aspiring writers:
Peter David has written a book for use by people who want to write comic books, but it also contains many lessons to help people who want to write narrative fiction. For the would-be comic creator, David includes how-to lessons like different scriptwriting formats, how to fashion plots for sequential storytelling, how to break into the business, etc. For any other author, David's lessons also include universal lessons such as characterization, plot, pacing, structure. A helpful book for anyone from an... more info
An excellent primer on storytelling for the visual medium!:
There are many books on storytelling, but none can match Peter David's book "Writing for Comics" with regards to writing for the sequential arts medium. Whether you are interested in writing a super-hero comic or a webcomic, there is excellent information to be had by reading this book. Peter David, the prolific writer behind a plethora of fiction books (both literary novel and comic books) writes a clear, concise, and occasionally humor-weaved primer on writing for comics. I found this book to be well... more info
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