Create Your Own Comics

Create Your Own Comics is packed with story ideas, drawing tips, creative prompts and loads of fun suggestions to start you off on your way to becoming a comic master.

Create Your Own Comics ... isn't just page after page of blank comic pages… it's a comprehensive guide to what makes comics work, with templates to help you find your way and hints for getting the best out of your own story ideas. Learn the basics of common comic elements and how to use them, including panels, speech bubbles, splash pages and sound effects. And once you feel you're a comic master, practise your new skills by using the story generator toolsto get your imagination pumping and come up with unique stories of your very own. The next generation of comic masters never had it so good!

Clear, concise, and easy to understand, this is a brilliant interactive 'how-to' guide for budding artists and authors alike. Split into neatly categorised chapters, the reader learns how comics work...Lively, colourful and, uplifting, this is a superb guide that does exactly what the title says.

Ned Hartley writes comics and books for children, and currently writes the Bananaman stories that appear in the Beano every week. Ned has written lots of books including the best-selling Marvel Origins: Spider-Man, The Ladybird Big Book of Dead Things, Together We Can, Great Lives: Albert Einstein, Marvel: the Science of Superheroes, the Marvel Museum and loads more, many of them about superheroes and comics. He's also written comics for 2000AD, Monster Fun and Wallace & Gromit Comics. He lives in London with his wife and two children.