Professional Comic Book


Practice

Graphic Novel:​

A Graphic Novel is a novel that tells a story, it is meant to have a beginning, middle and end. A Graphic Novel is usually longer and more substantive than a Comic Book, a Graphic Novel has a similar vibe to a Novel.​

This is:​

-A beginning, middle and end​

-a central narrative​

-character development and personal story​

-thermotic messaging​

-precise, carefully considered dialogue and narrative​

Graphic Novels mainly use images to tell the story with little to none text
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Comic Books:​

​Comic Books are a story told through illustrations, some famous comic book publishers are Archie Comics, Marvel Comics and Dc Comics. These Comic Books would be published on a weekly to monthly basis in books or comic strips, which would be published in magazines or Newspapers. Some of these can last year or decades.​Comic books can have less structure they don't need to have a consistent story with a beginning, middle and end they can be short and simple, have lots of words or very little comics are much more bendable and can be as long or as short that you want it to be and still tell the story you want, they can also be in a wide range of styles with lots of text and speech ore none.

​Famous Comic Books:​
-Superman​
-Batman​
-Amazing Spider Man ​
-Wonder Women​

​These are some examples of a range of different comic strips I have incorporated different shades, colours, I have also used photography for both of them with one being used as real images for backgrounds and the other as close up images of materials to create more simple backgrounds, I wanted to show how you can change the styles of comics.

Comic Artists:

John Romita Jr is the son of John Romita Sr, who is known for his co-creation in two Spiderman stories. John Romita is recently helped in the creation of Kick ass which was then created into a mega-hit movie and a sequel. Romita Jr also drew Iron man for the demon in a bottle series. In 1983 he also helped create uncanny x-men with Dan Green and author Chris Claremont, he has helped create man well known Marvel comics and many other comic which you may know.​

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Osamu Tezuka was known as the Walt Disney of Japan. His most well-known character was 'Astro Boy' who first made an appearance in 1951 as 'Captain Astro'. This character became so popular then that he is still seen throughout Japan now, it was also created into a 3D animated movie in 2009 which was produced by Imagi Animation Studio, it was directed by David Bowers the earning of this movie was $45 million with a budget of $56 million with the films poor performance Imagi shut down in 2010 having Astro Boy as its final film produced. Some of Tezuka's other creations were the comics Metropolics, New treasure island, Apollo's song, and many more. His story Treasure island was a massive influence for many other comics created. ​