How to Create Comics the Marvel Way

The new, Marvel-approved, ultimate guide for modern comic creators!

Marvel Comics and modern industry legend Mark Waid takes creators and fans on an all-new journey of creative discovery with this essential instruction book!

Reflecting current Marvel and industry approaches to producing comics, How to Create Comics the Marvel Way includes invaluable advice and detailed descriptions of various stages of the comic book production process, including writing, penciling, inking, coloring, and lettering, as well as how comic illustration has been revolutionized through advances in digital/desktop technology and how the Marvel style has evolved over the years to where it is today.

With images of iconic Marvel characters throughout via pencil roughs, finished pencils, inks, colors, and various other stages of the production process for printed comics, this book will serve as the ultimate primer for creators at every level!

Mark Waid is an Eisner and Harvey Award–winning comics creator. He has worked on every major comic book character in the industry. Some of his best known work includes Captain America, Fantastic Four, and Black Widow for Marvel Comics. Waid enjoyed his greatest outpouring of critical acclaim with the Eisner Award–winning Daredevil—including a revered collaboration with frequent artistic partner Chris Samnee—and has also authored Kingdom Come, one of the bestselling graphic novels of all time.