Marvel's Mastering the Art of Comics: An Insider's Guide to Creating Characters, Stories, and Comics That Leap Off the Page - Hardcover

by Alex Segura (Author)

Create your own Marvel-style comic book with this practical guide featuring expert insights from Marvel's top writers, artists, and editors.

What is it that makes a Marvel comic book so special? How can you recreate that Marvel magic to hook--and hold--a reader from the very first page? Marvel's Mastering the Art of Comics guides you through every step in the process of creating a Marvel-quality comic book:

• Crafting the perfect pitch
• Creating compelling characters and origin stories
• Maximizing a scene visually
• Designing a Marvel-style cover that screams "pick me up to find out what happens!"
• Telling a story across panels, pages, and issues
• And so much more, including all the technical nuts and bolts of working with a team to execute your vision

With captivating scenes from X-Men, Daredevil, The Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, and more, alongside rich insights, quotes, and Q&As from nearly twenty of the most storied Marvel creators, this step-by-step guide analyzes character, story, cover, and panel samples to explore the anatomy of a Marvel comic book, teaching you everything you need to know to create one of your own.

This guide is a Marvel-comics-making master class for the creator who is ready to move beyond basic theory to learn how to bring the page--and their career--to life.

Author Biography

Alex Segura is the bestselling and award-winning author of Secret Identity, which the New York Times called "wittily original" and named an Editors' Choice. His work includes the YA superhero adventure Araña/Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow, the follow-up to Secret Identity, Alter Ego, and the sci-fi/espionage thriller, Dark Space (with Rob Hart). Alex is also the author of Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall, the Pete Fernandez Miami Mystery series, and a number of comic books, including The Mysterious Micro-Face (in partnership with NPR), The Black Ghost, The Archies, The Dusk, The Awakened, and more.