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Supplemental Reading

Frank Santoro on the Geometry of Page Layouts

Comics artist Frank Santoro has a really in-depth series of posts on the Comics Journal about constructing the geometric proportions of your pages. Check them out! http://www.tcj.com/author/frank-santoro/

Art of Comics Issue #5: Time

PDF of the booklet from a few Saturdays ago’s class on Time: classfive-slideshow.pdf

I’ve left the file size large so that you can actually read the comics in there

    Contents

  1. Cover: Kevin O’Niell – The League of Extraordinary Gentleman: Century — 1910, written by Alan Moore
  2. Inside Front Cover: Maurice Vellekoop – “Waiting”
  3. Chris Ware – Quimby the Mouse
  4. Dave Sim – Cerebus #68
  5. Robert Crumb – “A Short History of America
  6. Eleanor Davis – “The Island”
  7. Gilbert Hernandez – “Love and Rockets X,” Love and Rockets #39
  8. Richard McGuire – “Here”
  9. Rebecca Dart – Rabbithead
  10. Niki Smith – In Maps & Legends, written by Michael Jasper
  11. Frank Miller – Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
  12. Dave Gibbons – Watchmen #11, written by Alan Moore
  13. Craig Thompson – Blankets
  14. Jules Fieffer – The Explainers
  15. Back Cover: Kevin O’Niell – The League of Extraordinary Gentleman: Century — 1910, written by Alan Moore

Joy of Comics: Reading List

I remade this post into a page, since I’ll be updating it over time, adding links and books I think are worth checking out: http://kevinczap.com/artofcomics/reading-list/.

I’ll be sure to let you know where there’s something new!