Misunderstanding Comics

by Tim Heiderich, Mike Rosen (Illustrator)

You won't understand comics until you misunderstand them!Learn about bad art, shallow characters, reused stories, manga cliches, poly-bagged, variant-cover collector's editions, and musclebound heroes with tiny feet... and how you can profit by them!- Chapters -• The History of Comics – Why comics and "fine" art ain't so different. • Misunderstanding Art – How your skill and talent are holding you back. • How to Misunderstand Characters – How to create compelling characters, and do you even need to? • Storytelling – We distill ideas from the top names in comics, reducing a lifetime of innovation to a punchline. • Web Comics & Self-Publishing – When no one else will print your web comic about a zombie robot pirate ninja who loves bacon. • Manga & Everything Wrong with Japan – It's not all school girl uniforms and tentacle rape. Just most of it. • Intellectual Comics – Feign intellectualism with bigger words and smaller fonts. • Comic Book Collectors & Other Fanboys – The people who pay your salary and how to exploit them.• Making Good Money with Bad Ideas – Take this book, for example.All this in 88 pages of black-and-white-hot fury!

88 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 17, 2014