How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way

How to Depict Comics the Curiosity Way
Encompass art by John Buscema
Date	1978
Folio count	192 pages
Publisher	Marvel Fireside Books
Artistic squad
Writers	Stan Lee
Pencillers	John Buscema
Original publication
Engagement of publication	1978
Language	English
ISBN	978-0671530778

How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way is a book by Stan Lee and John Buscema. The book teaches the aspiring comic book artist how to depict and create comic books. The examples are from Marvel Comics and Buscema artwork.^[1] ^{[ page needed ]} It was first published in 1978 by Marvel Fireside Books and has been reprinted regularly. The book created a generation of cartoonists who learned there was a "Marvel way to draw and a wrong style to describe".^[2] ^{[ page needed ]} It is considered "ane of the all-time education books on creating comics ever produced."^[iii] ^{[ folio needed ]}

Some^{[ who? ]} believe the "exercises in the volume are silly with its stick figures, cylinders, cubes, and storytelling."^[4] ^{[ page needed ]} Scott McCloud has cited the book as a good reference for teaching the process of making comic books.^[5] ^{[ page needed ]}

Lee and Buscema also created a video version of the book which is now on DVD.^{[ citation needed ]}

Come across also [edit]

Marvel Premiere Classics
The Official Marvel Effort-Out Book
Stan Lee

References [edit]

^ Lee, Stan Buscema, John (1978), How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way. Simon & Schuster Inc. {{commendation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors listing (link)
^ Wolk, Douglas (2007), Reading comics: how graphic novels work and what they mean. Da Capo Press.
^ Hamilton, Sue (1978), Comic Volume Creators, John Buscema. ABDO Publishing Company.
^ Steed, Paul (2005), Modeling a graphic symbol in 3ds max. Wordware publishing Inc.
^ McCloud, Scott (2006), Making comics: storytelling secrets of comics, manga and graphic novels.