You Can Do a Graphic Novel

Barbara Slate
(Adult Nonfiction - 741.51 Sla)

Get that story out of your head and onto paper! Barbara Slate guides aspiring graphic novelists through the same process she learned in her early days working for Marvel and DC Comics. Written in the form of a graphic novel itself, the book covers all the components and shows readers how to: Find their own drawing style regardless of ability; Create memorable characters, compelling plots and subplots, and engaging dialog; Traverse the graphic novel business.


Creative Nonfiction in Celebration of the Power of Words

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  • The Master Guide to Drawing Anime: How to Draw Original Characters From Simple Templates


  • Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race


  • The Drawing Lesson : A Graphic Novel That Teaches You How to Draw


  • Whoosh!: 250 Ways to Get Motion into Your Drawings


  • What It Is


  • Manga For the Beginner Kawaii: Everything You Need to Draw the Supercute Characters of Japanese Comics


  • Unjournaling: Daily Writing Challenges That Are Not Introspective, Not Personal, Not Boring


  • I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban


  • Just Write: Here's How


  • How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way


  • Draw Out the Story: Ten Secrets to Creating Your Own Comics


  • How to Make a Journal of Your Life


  • You Can Do a Graphic Novel


  • Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels


  • March: Book One


  • Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World


  • Now Write! Screenwriting: Exercises by Today's Best Writers and Teachers


  • I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives


  • Foundations in Comic Book Art: Fundamental Tools and Techniques for Sequential Artists