Find success as a comic book artist with this step-by-step guide to creating, publishing, and marketing your very own comics.The secrets to comic book creation are at your fingertips! This comprehensive guide details the steps to becoming a hit comic book maker—from creating compelling characters and illustrations to getting published and marketing a finished product—and is full of insights from world-famous artists from such companies as DC, Marvel, and Dark Horse...

Comics have a rich and varied history, beginning on the walls of caves and evolving to the sophisticated medium found on websites today. For a kid, comics can be more than entertainment. Comics can be a lifeline to another world, one in which everyone has the potential to become a superhero and children are welcome to all the power adults have overlooked.Comics: Investigate the History and Technology of American Cartooning follows the trajectory of comics from their early ...

Start on the early road to success while having fun, learning new skills, and making money with this guide of more than fifty entrepreneurial ideas.Filled with delightfully simple business ideas, Better than a Lemonade Stand! is a fun guide packed with creative ideas that show how to start a business with little or no start-up costs, attract and retain customers, develop negotiating skills, and more.Originally written and published when the author w...

Make those writing dreams a reality with this comprehensive guide that explains how to go from staring at an empty page to becoming a published author.Designed to inspire creative expression and help aspiring young writers achieve their dreams, So, You Want to Be a Writer? takes readers through the fulfilling step-by-step process of becoming a professional writer, from learning how to generate ideas to getting published and promoting their work.Aspi...

Meta’s studies of enchantments are interrupted and her world changes forever! Meta is a simple mage apprentice girl who unexpectedly becomes the keeper of one of the powerful shards of Bregu.  After the destruction of her village and the death of those she loves, she seeks revenge on the person who dealt this infamous destruction, the dark mage. Yet instead of receiving an attack  power from the shard, it gives he...

SUPERMAN has his hands full. First, he encounters his cousin, SUPERGIRL, a reckless teenager with powers like his own. Then he confronts a creature known as PARASITE, who can absorb SUPERMAN'S strength and super-speed just by touching him. SUPERMAN knows enough to not shake hands with the deadly fiend, but SUPERGIRL is still learning the ropes. Filled with her power, the PARASITE now battles the MAN OF STEEL in a fight that rocks the planet. How can SUPERMAN defeat a villain who gets more ...

All day long, the Knight peels turnips. This isn’t what she had in mind for her first magic lesson. She wants to make a magic potion, not soup! Things get a lot more exciting when she steals the wizard’s magic wand and spell book. Her potion transforms Edward into a giant worm—and he’s hungry!Hocus Focus offers more sweet, goofy storytelling from the creators of Adventures in Cartooning. With simple how-to-draw tutorials on the endpapers, these cute picture books are a pla...

Young aspiring artists everywhere will be drawn to the selection of ocean animals included in Learn to Draw Sea Creatures, which includes a variety of popular ocean dwellers, such as the beluga whale, manatee, dolphin, sea lion, orca, and many more. This book opens with brief information for getting started, the tools and materials needed, and some sample drawing exercises to warm up. Young artists-in-training will learn to draw their favorite ocean animals by following the step-b...

Animals from the Polar Regions are popular subjects among children, and Learn to Draw Polar Animals includes recognizable, engaging wildlife from both the Arctic and Antarctic. Now young artists can immerse themselves in the animal kingdom while learning to draw a variety of polar animals that range from cute and cuddly to massive and majestic. Learn to Draw Polar Animals is a fun and educational drawing book featuring easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions. The book opens with brief inf...

Learn to draw cartoon spectacular superheroes--step by step!Cartooning for Kids: Spectacular Superheroes teaches young cartoonists to draw a range of strong, powerful characters in true cartooning style, including such characters as Pizza Dog, Elastic Man, and The Flame. Children will love creating superhuman characters, as well as learning how to develop and draw their own original cartoons. Featured sections cover silly expressions and awesome accessorie...

This is a book that will teach you the basic foundation of making a comic book and creating a comic strip. There are a lot of things to consider when beginning.I am very surprised that out of all of the books I’ve written, this is the one that has been purchased the most. In High school I loved Arts and Drama but when I graduated I put those things on the back shelve and chose a different path. My vocation now is to advise and teach workshops on protocol to staff under me; sounds b...