SOLVED. 2005-2010 Nonfiction Graphic Novel How To book. [s]

[Dani]

Found this book in Barnes and Nobel. It was by two authors who showed you how to make and publish a graphic novel. The whole book's layout was a comic with the authors showing up or commenting on the pages as you read. The book was in full color with most of the tools needed to make a graphic novel actually drawn out and not referenced with a photograph. I believe the book also covered how to make web comics as well. That's about all I remember.

[Kris]

Dani, is the book written as a graphic novel (e.g., something by Scott McCloud)? Can you describe the style of illustration?

Is the emphasis on how to get published or how to design/draw/write graphic novels?

[MaWhit]

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel by Nat Gertler and Steve Lieber? There's an updated edition as well.

[Rosa]

You could check this list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

[Dani]

Kris wrote: "Dani, is the book written as a graphic novel (e.g., something by Scott McCloud)? Can you describe the style of illustration?

Is the emphasis on how to get published or how to design..."

No, that's not it. But I'll mark that as a "To Read" for future reference. It looks pretty good! ^_^

[Dani]

Dani wrote: "Found this book in Barnes and Nobel. It was by two authors who showed you how to make and publish a graphic novel. The whole book's layout was a comic with the authors showing up or commenting on t..."

It's sort of like Scott McCloud, but in full color and set up like an instruction manual. It talks about what tools you'll need to make the comic (and the tool representations are all hand drawn), the authors have drawn themselves into the comic and pop up along the side panels and in the corners of the panels too.

One panel that I do still remember was the authors mentioning how you can put your comic online and used the web comic Penny Arcade as an example.

There was also a section on how to get published, how to find an agent, how to self-publish, and how to market your work.

But the part that stood out most about the book was that it was all illustrated - the authors, the tools, using Photoshop on your computer - all hand drawn illustrations. And I thought it was so awesome that someone put that much work into making this book to the point of illustrating pen numbs and the different types you could use for your work. Basically the attention to detail was amazing.

Sorry for the long response. Hope this helps!

[Dani]

Whitspren wrote: "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel by Nat Gertler and Steve Lieber? There's an updated edition as well."

Oh cool! I didn't know this even existed! I'll take a look and see if I can find it! Thank you! ^_^

[Kris]

Here's the Google Books preview of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel, 2nd Edition by Nat Gertler - Whitspren's suggestion:

https://books.google.com/books?id=-Sa...

[Dani]

Kris wrote: "Here's the Google Books preview of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel, 2nd Edition by Nat Gertler - Whitspren's suggestion:

https://books.google...."

Someone else posted this book too. Sadly it's not the one I'm looking for, but I marked it as a "To Read" since it does look really cool and seems to have a ton of info. :-)

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Dani, still looking or was this found?

[Dani]

Oh wow! I forgot about this question! it's been found! it's Make Your Own Graphic Novel Using Digital Techniques by Mike Chinn.

Amazon link: https://a.co/d/g2CiufJ

[Kris]

Glad you found your book, Dani. Here's the Goodreads link - Create Your Own Graphic Novel Using Digital Techniques by Mike Chinn.

[Dani]

Thanks Kris! Much appreciated! ❤️