Making Comic Books

After years of stumbling around in the dark, and finally figuring out how to do some of this stuff, I've decided to sit down and start writing about my process of creating comics. As a relative newcomer to this arcane art, I've gone through a lot of shortcuts, picked up a lot of tips from professionals, and evolved as an artist and writer, and now I want to share what I've learned.

If you'd like a great book about making comics, might I suggest the appropriately titled Making Comics by Scott McCloud. It's a great compendium of comics creation.

Tutorial Videos

My Comic Process Part 1 - Doing the layout

This is a video showing you how I take my pencil drawings and bring them into the digital world, and figure out the layout of my Grumbles comic strip.

My Comic Process Part 2 - Digital Inking

This is a video showing you how I take my pencil drawings and bring them into the digital world, and figure out the layout of my Grumbles comic strip.

My Comic Process Part 3 - Arranging the panels in Photoshop.

This is a video showing you how I take my pencil drawings and bring them into the digital world, and figure out the layout of my Grumbles comic strip.

Articles

Writing Comics

The first of a series of articles about how I approach the creation of comics.

From Script to Panels

Part 2 of a series of articles about how I make comics. How to breakdown a script into a comicbook page.

Roughs to Pencils

Part 3 of a series of articles about making comics. How to take your rough thumbnails and scale them up to finish your pencils.

Digital Inking

Part 4 of a series of articles about making comics. This section takes us from finished pencils to final inks.

Digital layout in Photoshop

Part 5 of a series of articles about making comics. We explore my technique for laying out your comic page in Adobe Photoshop.

Digital Lettering and Balloons

Part 6 of a series of articles about making comics. This tutorial deals with using digital fonts in your comic, using Adobe Photoshop
Yes... I said Photoshop.

Sound effects

Part 7 of a series of articles about making comics. This tutorial deals with creating display type in Illustrator and importing it into Photoshop for use as sound effects in your comic story.