Drawing Words And Writing Pictures by Jessica Abel

A Definitive Course from Concept to Comic in 15 Lessons

A practical, lesson-based guide to creating comics that teaches both visual storytelling and the craft of writing for sequential art, covering fundamentals like figure drawing, composition, panel-to-panel transitions, pacing, character design, dialogue, lettering, inking, coloring, page layout and production; it combines clear step-by-step demonstrations, exercises and real-world examples to help beginners and intermediate creators develop techniques, build comics-ready scripts and layouts, and understand the workflow from thumbnail to finished page.

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