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A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by brief descriptive prose and written narrative, usually dialog contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. Although comics has some origins in 18th century Japan and 1830s Europe, comic books were first popularized in the United States during the 1930s. The first modern comic book, Famous Funnies, was released in the United States in 1933 and was a reprinting of earlier newspaper humor comic strips, which had established many of the story-telling devices used in comics. The term comic book derives from American comic books once being a compilation of comic strips of a humorous tone; however, this practice was replaced by featuring stories of all genres, usually not humorous in tone.
Comic books are reliant on their organization and appearance. Authors largely focus on the frame of the page, size, orientation, and panel positions. These characteristic aspects of comic books are necessary in conveying the content and messages of the author. The key elements of comic books include panels, balloons (speech bubbles), text (lines), and characters. Balloons are usually convex spatial containers of information that are related to a character using a tail element. The tail has an origin, path, tip, and pointed direction.
Jack Kirby (/ˈkɜːrbi/; August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994), born Jacob Kurtzberg, was an American comic book artist, writer, and editor widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators.
Kirby grew up poor in New York City, and learned to draw cartoon figures by tracing characters from comic strips and editorial cartoons. He entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s, drawing various comics features under different pen names, including Jack Curtiss, before ultimately settling on Jack Kirby. In 1940, he and writer-editor Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics, predecessor of Marvel Comics. During the 1940s, Kirby, generally teamed with Simon, created numerous characters for that company and for National Comics, later to become DC Comics.
After serving in World War II, Kirby produced work for a number of publishers, including DC, Harvey Comics, Hillman Periodicals. At Crestwood Publications he and Simon created the genre of romance comics and later founded their own short-lived comic company, Mainline Publications. Ultimately, Kirby found himself at Timely's 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics, which in the next decade became Marvel. There, in the 1960s, Kirby and writer-editor Stan Lee co-created many of the company's major characters, including the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the Hulk. The Lee-Kirby titles garnered high sales and critical acclaim, but in 1970, feeling he had been treated unfairly, Kirby left the company for rival DC.
Comic Craft is the most popular comic lettering program and uses prefabricated word balloons that can be moved and re-sized. Letter a comic by positioning the word balloons and the text inside them with tips from a comics marketer, writer and creator in this free video on comics. Expert: Mark Poulton Contact: www.koniwaves.com Bio: Mark Poulton has worked in the comic book industry for the past three years. He is the writer/co-creator of the hit comic series "Koni Waves." Filmmaker: Joel Young
Top 10 best comic book making software 1.Manga Studio 5 Whether you want to simply enhance and perfect your pen-and-paper illustrations or you want to experience a completely digital creative process, Manga Studio is the ultimate software tool for comic and manga creation. 2. SketchBook Pro 6 The all-new SketchBook Pro is a powerful and easy to use drawing, painting, and sketching application for everyone who loves to draw. 3.Adobe Photoshop CC CC It is nearly impossible to create a great comic book without using multiple programs, since most are either illustration- or script-specific. 4.Comic Creator Bring your own comics to life with Comic Creator. Instantly add pages, page layouts, backgrounds, characters, props and dialog to tell your story in a visually dynamic setting. Print an...
http://adf.ly/8997445/how-to-make-comic-books How To Make Comic Books And Make Huge Money with Comic Book Lab Comic Book Lab: Learn how to make your own comics How to change your killer comic ideas into full color, action packed pages from two industry pros, Richard Bennett and Ian Hannin. How to utilize the tools and materials necessary to craft your comic strip page, complete with a professional step-by-step demonstration. How to make sure your composition and layout tells an engaging, memorable and compelling story that the fans will want to share with their friends. Get an interior view of the professional techniques Richard and Ian utilize so you can accelerate your comic book career and go on it to the next level. Discuss and collaborate with artists within the exclusive Comic Book L...
Sal and Tiffany kick off a new monthly discussion series where we go over the process of creating your very own comic book! Here's a book Sal published on Comixology: http://bit.ly/1x7S3cz Subscribe here: http://www.youtube.com/user/tvlittlehouse?sub_confirmation=1 Follow us on Twitter! Sal: https://twitter.com/salsayswhat Send Snail Mail to: ComicPOP! PO Box 1157 Denville, NJ 07834 Come visit our Patreon: http://patreon.com/comicpop We also make fun audio commentaries over here: http://comicpop.bandcamp.com Visit the Subreddit: http://reddit.com/r/comicpop Stop in on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1zUcCOi & http://on.fb.me/1F3b3MV See us on Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/comicpoptv
In this video, we are going to teach you how to make comic books using Comic Book Creator V1. With just a few simple steps, you can turn your photos into an interesting comic book! Besides, you can also transform your boring history notes into a comic book which makes study a lot easier! Enjoy! Don't forget to leave your comment and rate this video too!
Wanna help support what i do? Become a patron! https://www.patreon.com/ericfaries Check out my comics here: http://tapastic.com/ericronin Follow me on Tumblr: http://artofericfaries.tumblr.com Like my Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/artofericfaries Check out my Skillshare class: http://skl.sh/1utxDH5 I stream over on Picarto; https://picarto.tv/EricRonin Here are the page layout templates i promised!! http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?quksxv343auswfo
My course, LEARN CHARACTER DESIGN, is available NOW!: http://learncharacterdesign.com Comics are a tool for visual storytelling, but they can be very time intensive! By walking you through my process, I'll show you the ways to expedite your comic making that I've developed over 7 years of making them myself. Daily videos and articles this month at: http://brookeseggleston.com My Comic: http://denizencomic.com Signup to be notified when the Learn Character Design Course is available! http://learncharacterdesign.com
Ok, here it is my four easy steps to comic book creation. This is how I wrote my own comic book series- "Innocence". Follow me on Twitter! Kingy_85 The first issue is now available below... http://indyplanet.com/store/index.php?manufacturers_id=12510
Marvel Comic Book Creator By Planetwide Media Marvel Heroes Comic Book Creator allows you to create your own personalized comic books featuring MARVEL Characters. Drag and Drop Marvel characters, backgrounds, props, and action words into comic book templates, combine with clip art, text ballons, caption boxes and imagination to create a unique, personalized comic book experience. Marvel Heroes innovative, interactive self-publishing software give comic book fans everything they need to make their own Marvel Heroes. http://www.mycomicbookcreator.com/marvelheroes/
We are proud to introduce you our short video made for comic-book event "Komiksofon" This is a tribute to our friends, drawers and comic-book creators from Wroclaw. Turn up a volume and full screen mode, buckle your seat-belts and enjoy it! Video made by Division48 crew: Katarzyna Niemczyk Marcin Przybyś Grzegorz Przybyś Music: Michael Hunter - Soviet Connection www.facebook.com/Division48
When you're talking about New Gods, you're talking about a comic in Jack Kirby's (THE GREATEST COMIC BOOK CREATOR OF ALL TIME!) magnum opus of interlocking series 'The Fourth World.' It seemed appropriate to add his visual flair to Pusha & Yeezy's new track titled 'New God Flow. http://therapup.net/2012/07/tru-premiere-kanye-west-pusha-t-new-god-flow-unofficial-video/ The images are taken from New Gods #3 (featuring the first appearance of the Black Racer). Written and drawn by Jack Kirby, inked by Vince Colletta.
Gilbert Hernandez, comic book artist and co-creator of Love & Rockets, interviewed at his home studio in Las Vegas, Nevada. For much more go to scionav.com/lifestyle/scionmagazine.
This is my feature film directorial debut. The project was a lifelong dream of two comic book fanatics (Milo Miller co-writer, co-producer) We spent three years writing it. I spent a year storyboarding. We shot for a year and then posted for a year. It was filmed in Cleveland on a very humble budget, and has had the good fortune of showing in festivals all over the world including Montreal's Fantasia, New York Comic Con, Cleveland International, and Santa Fe. It will be among ten films from around the globe to screen at this year's Fantastic Planet in Sydney Australia. It's been a life changing project. I was a musician/audio engineer when that shooting began, I now direct, shoot and edit for a living - big love for this generous talented cast and crew. Synopsis: David, a strugg...
Please link to the article and not just the video - http://bigfanboy.com/wp/?p=8450 This is a promotional trailer for the movie adaptation of the popular comic book series BAD KIDS GO TO HELL. Directed by co-creator Matthew Spradlin and produced by co-creator Barry Wernick, the film stars Judd Nelson, Ben Browder, Cameron Deane Stewart, Augie Duke, Ali Faulkner, Marc Donato, Roger Edwards, Amanda Alch, Jeffrey Schmidt, and Chanel Ryan. This trailer is premiering online exclusively at http://bigfanboy.com This is not a theatrical trailer, but rather a promotional video shown to give folks an idea of what to expect. The song featured in the trailer is "Boys Wanna Be Her" by Peaches - no rights inferred - more info at http://www.peachesrocks.com
Follow the journeys of the members of teams Crazy, Babbling, Sunshine and Here, There and Everywhere as they travel coast to coast in Green RVs from Southern California to New York City to figure out where their Roads will take them. Along the way, the teams talk with Leaders including Todd McFarlane, the creator of the comic book series Spawn; the first all-female African-American flight crew to operate a commercial jet in the U.S.; Larry Colbert, a blind motivational speaker and author; and Penny Brown Reynolds, a judge and minister, to learn the steps they took to get to where they are today. The teams also face major obstacles—one of which nearly ends their Roadtrip altogether—that test their resilience and remind them about what’s truly important in life. The eighth season of Roadtr...
An interview with Megan Levens, an amazing Los Angeles based independent comic book artist and creator of 'Somewhere In Between', a weekly web comic. Watch the interview and check out her awesome web comic here: http://www.somewhereinbetweencomic.com/ The Independents: A currently in production documentary that explores the lives and artistic process of independent artists working in the most powerful medium in the world. For more info check out our site: http://theindependentsfilm.com/
or. tit. PANICO JODOROWSKY DIRECTED AND PRODUCED BY Pietro BALLA | Monica REPETTO Broadcaster CANAL JIMMY DOCUMENTARY 1 x 60’ Italy 2000 Alejandro Jodorowsky. Great director, mime, writer, poet, magician, creator of comic books. Some swear they had seen him disguised as a magician while he was telling fortunes with tarot cards to naive customers in a Parisian bar. Jodo talks about films, surrealism and the Panic movement, of psychomagic and tarots, of how his activities as a therapist have gone in and out of his films. Jodo tells us about the great flop of Dune, a chapter in his career that he has never willingly investigated. He speaks of his encounter with Moebius and the birth of Incal, the comic book series, of the arrival of producer Claudio Argento and their collaboration on San...
Our Kickstarter Campaign: http://kck.st/138SfHU It closes at 5:41 am on June 25th, 2013. Please become a part of our filmmaking family! The film follows Dallas Edward Duat, a 27-year-old American every-man. Dallas constantly struggles to balance his dead-end job and lackluster marriage, to his high school sweetheart Marta, with his aspirations to be a comic book writer, alongside his co-creator and best friend, Billy Tate. In this dark zombedy, Billy and Dallas embark on a supernatural quest, with unproven ancient incantations, to cultivate their own zombii specimen. Their experiment will end in either science fiction victory, or complete and utter tragedy. Bare bones: it is an independent coming-of-age buddy story that is seen through the lens of becoming a zombii. Not a Zombie movie,...
Andy Riley is a comedy writer and comic artist, creator of the legendary Bunny Suicides series of books and Roasted, the geeky coffee shop comic that appeared in the Observer magazine until very recently. Often working with writing partner Kev Cecil, Andy has written for numerous highly-acclaimed comedy shows and performers, including Armando Iannucci and Miranda Hart. He was kind enough to illustrate some cassette inlay cards for us, too (seen in this video) so get in quick with a tape order if you'd like a piece of one-off art. The episode will go up in full on Thursday the 18th of March, over on Shiftrunstop.co.uk
Comic Craft is the most popular comic lettering program and uses prefabricated word balloons that can be moved and re-sized. Letter a comic by positioning the word balloons and the text inside them with tips from a comics marketer, writer and creator in this free video on comics. Expert: Mark Poulton Contact: www.koniwaves.com Bio: Mark Poulton has worked in the comic book industry for the past three years. He is the writer/co-creator of the hit comic series "Koni Waves." Filmmaker: Joel Young
Top 10 best comic book making software 1.Manga Studio 5 Whether you want to simply enhance and perfect your pen-and-paper illustrations or you want to experience a completely digital creative process, Manga Studio is the ultimate software tool for comic and manga creation. 2. SketchBook Pro 6 The all-new SketchBook Pro is a powerful and easy to use drawing, painting, and sketching application for everyone who loves to draw. 3.Adobe Photoshop CC CC It is nearly impossible to create a great comic book without using multiple programs, since most are either illustration- or script-specific. 4.Comic Creator Bring your own comics to life with Comic Creator. Instantly add pages, page layouts, backgrounds, characters, props and dialog to tell your story in a visually dynamic setting. Print an...
http://adf.ly/8997445/how-to-make-comic-books How To Make Comic Books And Make Huge Money with Comic Book Lab Comic Book Lab: Learn how to make your own comics How to change your killer comic ideas into full color, action packed pages from two industry pros, Richard Bennett and Ian Hannin. How to utilize the tools and materials necessary to craft your comic strip page, complete with a professional step-by-step demonstration. How to make sure your composition and layout tells an engaging, memorable and compelling story that the fans will want to share with their friends. Get an interior view of the professional techniques Richard and Ian utilize so you can accelerate your comic book career and go on it to the next level. Discuss and collaborate with artists within the exclusive Comic Book L...
Sal and Tiffany kick off a new monthly discussion series where we go over the process of creating your very own comic book! Here's a book Sal published on Comixology: http://bit.ly/1x7S3cz Subscribe here: http://www.youtube.com/user/tvlittlehouse?sub_confirmation=1 Follow us on Twitter! Sal: https://twitter.com/salsayswhat Send Snail Mail to: ComicPOP! PO Box 1157 Denville, NJ 07834 Come visit our Patreon: http://patreon.com/comicpop We also make fun audio commentaries over here: http://comicpop.bandcamp.com Visit the Subreddit: http://reddit.com/r/comicpop Stop in on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1zUcCOi & http://on.fb.me/1F3b3MV See us on Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/comicpoptv
In this video, we are going to teach you how to make comic books using Comic Book Creator V1. With just a few simple steps, you can turn your photos into an interesting comic book! Besides, you can also transform your boring history notes into a comic book which makes study a lot easier! Enjoy! Don't forget to leave your comment and rate this video too!
Wanna help support what i do? Become a patron! https://www.patreon.com/ericfaries Check out my comics here: http://tapastic.com/ericronin Follow me on Tumblr: http://artofericfaries.tumblr.com Like my Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/artofericfaries Check out my Skillshare class: http://skl.sh/1utxDH5 I stream over on Picarto; https://picarto.tv/EricRonin Here are the page layout templates i promised!! http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?quksxv343auswfo
My course, LEARN CHARACTER DESIGN, is available NOW!: http://learncharacterdesign.com Comics are a tool for visual storytelling, but they can be very time intensive! By walking you through my process, I'll show you the ways to expedite your comic making that I've developed over 7 years of making them myself. Daily videos and articles this month at: http://brookeseggleston.com My Comic: http://denizencomic.com Signup to be notified when the Learn Character Design Course is available! http://learncharacterdesign.com
Ok, here it is my four easy steps to comic book creation. This is how I wrote my own comic book series- "Innocence". Follow me on Twitter! Kingy_85 The first issue is now available below... http://indyplanet.com/store/index.php?manufacturers_id=12510
Marvel Comic Book Creator By Planetwide Media Marvel Heroes Comic Book Creator allows you to create your own personalized comic books featuring MARVEL Characters. Drag and Drop Marvel characters, backgrounds, props, and action words into comic book templates, combine with clip art, text ballons, caption boxes and imagination to create a unique, personalized comic book experience. Marvel Heroes innovative, interactive self-publishing software give comic book fans everything they need to make their own Marvel Heroes. http://www.mycomicbookcreator.com/marvelheroes/
We are proud to introduce you our short video made for comic-book event "Komiksofon" This is a tribute to our friends, drawers and comic-book creators from Wroclaw. Turn up a volume and full screen mode, buckle your seat-belts and enjoy it! Video made by Division48 crew: Katarzyna Niemczyk Marcin Przybyś Grzegorz Przybyś Music: Michael Hunter - Soviet Connection www.facebook.com/Division48
When you're talking about New Gods, you're talking about a comic in Jack Kirby's (THE GREATEST COMIC BOOK CREATOR OF ALL TIME!) magnum opus of interlocking series 'The Fourth World.' It seemed appropriate to add his visual flair to Pusha & Yeezy's new track titled 'New God Flow. http://therapup.net/2012/07/tru-premiere-kanye-west-pusha-t-new-god-flow-unofficial-video/ The images are taken from New Gods #3 (featuring the first appearance of the Black Racer). Written and drawn by Jack Kirby, inked by Vince Colletta.
Gilbert Hernandez, comic book artist and co-creator of Love & Rockets, interviewed at his home studio in Las Vegas, Nevada. For much more go to scionav.com/lifestyle/scionmagazine.
This is my feature film directorial debut. The project was a lifelong dream of two comic book fanatics (Milo Miller co-writer, co-producer) We spent three years writing it. I spent a year storyboarding. We shot for a year and then posted for a year. It was filmed in Cleveland on a very humble budget, and has had the good fortune of showing in festivals all over the world including Montreal's Fantasia, New York Comic Con, Cleveland International, and Santa Fe. It will be among ten films from around the globe to screen at this year's Fantastic Planet in Sydney Australia. It's been a life changing project. I was a musician/audio engineer when that shooting began, I now direct, shoot and edit for a living - big love for this generous talented cast and crew. Synopsis: David, a strugg...
Please link to the article and not just the video - http://bigfanboy.com/wp/?p=8450 This is a promotional trailer for the movie adaptation of the popular comic book series BAD KIDS GO TO HELL. Directed by co-creator Matthew Spradlin and produced by co-creator Barry Wernick, the film stars Judd Nelson, Ben Browder, Cameron Deane Stewart, Augie Duke, Ali Faulkner, Marc Donato, Roger Edwards, Amanda Alch, Jeffrey Schmidt, and Chanel Ryan. This trailer is premiering online exclusively at http://bigfanboy.com This is not a theatrical trailer, but rather a promotional video shown to give folks an idea of what to expect. The song featured in the trailer is "Boys Wanna Be Her" by Peaches - no rights inferred - more info at http://www.peachesrocks.com
Follow the journeys of the members of teams Crazy, Babbling, Sunshine and Here, There and Everywhere as they travel coast to coast in Green RVs from Southern California to New York City to figure out where their Roads will take them. Along the way, the teams talk with Leaders including Todd McFarlane, the creator of the comic book series Spawn; the first all-female African-American flight crew to operate a commercial jet in the U.S.; Larry Colbert, a blind motivational speaker and author; and Penny Brown Reynolds, a judge and minister, to learn the steps they took to get to where they are today. The teams also face major obstacles—one of which nearly ends their Roadtrip altogether—that test their resilience and remind them about what’s truly important in life. The eighth season of Roadtr...
An interview with Megan Levens, an amazing Los Angeles based independent comic book artist and creator of 'Somewhere In Between', a weekly web comic. Watch the interview and check out her awesome web comic here: http://www.somewhereinbetweencomic.com/ The Independents: A currently in production documentary that explores the lives and artistic process of independent artists working in the most powerful medium in the world. For more info check out our site: http://theindependentsfilm.com/
or. tit. PANICO JODOROWSKY DIRECTED AND PRODUCED BY Pietro BALLA | Monica REPETTO Broadcaster CANAL JIMMY DOCUMENTARY 1 x 60’ Italy 2000 Alejandro Jodorowsky. Great director, mime, writer, poet, magician, creator of comic books. Some swear they had seen him disguised as a magician while he was telling fortunes with tarot cards to naive customers in a Parisian bar. Jodo talks about films, surrealism and the Panic movement, of psychomagic and tarots, of how his activities as a therapist have gone in and out of his films. Jodo tells us about the great flop of Dune, a chapter in his career that he has never willingly investigated. He speaks of his encounter with Moebius and the birth of Incal, the comic book series, of the arrival of producer Claudio Argento and their collaboration on San...
Our Kickstarter Campaign: http://kck.st/138SfHU It closes at 5:41 am on June 25th, 2013. Please become a part of our filmmaking family! The film follows Dallas Edward Duat, a 27-year-old American every-man. Dallas constantly struggles to balance his dead-end job and lackluster marriage, to his high school sweetheart Marta, with his aspirations to be a comic book writer, alongside his co-creator and best friend, Billy Tate. In this dark zombedy, Billy and Dallas embark on a supernatural quest, with unproven ancient incantations, to cultivate their own zombii specimen. Their experiment will end in either science fiction victory, or complete and utter tragedy. Bare bones: it is an independent coming-of-age buddy story that is seen through the lens of becoming a zombii. Not a Zombie movie,...
Andy Riley is a comedy writer and comic artist, creator of the legendary Bunny Suicides series of books and Roasted, the geeky coffee shop comic that appeared in the Observer magazine until very recently. Often working with writing partner Kev Cecil, Andy has written for numerous highly-acclaimed comedy shows and performers, including Armando Iannucci and Miranda Hart. He was kind enough to illustrate some cassette inlay cards for us, too (seen in this video) so get in quick with a tape order if you'd like a piece of one-off art. The episode will go up in full on Thursday the 18th of March, over on Shiftrunstop.co.uk
Latinas and the Comic book publication industry
Ben talks to superstar comic book creator, writer, artist Brian Michael Bendis.
New York Comic Con 2014 with interviews with Jim Lee, cosplayers, comic book creators and much more.
Kansas City has a great comic book creator scene. This panel included Greg Smallwood, B. Clay Moore, Jai Nitz, and Dennis Hopeless.
Walter Koenig actor, director, screenwriter, novelist, acting professor, and comic book creator was born in Manhattan in 1936 to Lithuanian Russian Jewish parents. https://pdaspeakers.com/speaker/4660/WalterKoenig
REBEL KOMIX is the official Youtube channel of Independent comic-book creator and writer Larry Higgins https://www.facebook.com/larry.phiggins www.twitter.com/nyobicomic https://www.facebook.com/NyobiLee1/
REBEL KOMIX is the official Youtube channel of Independent comic-book creator and writer Larry Higgins https://www.facebook.com/larry.phiggins www.twitter.com/nyobicomic https://www.facebook.com/NyobiLee1/