World Famous Comics: Writing for Comics with Peter David
Writing for Comics with Peter David
By: Peter David Publisher: Impact Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Impact Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 176 Publication Date: June 23, 2006
Book Description: The ultimate guide for anyone who wants to write dynamic comics, Writing for Comics With Peter David teaches readers how to create comics from start to finish. This essential guide:
-Provides easy-to-understand guidance for beginners, as well as seasoned advice for intermediate comics writers
-Features the expert instruction of highly successful Marvel and DC writer Peter David, whose credits include Spider-Man, Wolverine and the Hulk
-Includes illustrations throughout from major comic publishers, showing readers the creation process from start to finish
With an eye-catching package and superior advice, this book is a must have for anyone who wants to write comics or graphic novels.
Impact books are usually bad for the most part Peter David is a good writer but when it comes to giving instructions like in this book he falls short. Too much technical stuff and no magic which makes PAD intersting in the first place. Your better off reading his blog then buying this book :)
Excellent how-to for aspiring writers Peter David has written a book for use by people who want to write comic books, but it also contains many lessons to help people who want to write narrative fiction. For the would-be comic creator, David includes how-to lessons like different scriptwriting formats, how to fashion plots for sequential storytelling, how to break into the business, etc. For any other author, David's lessons also include universal lessons such as characterization, plot, pacing, structure. A helpful book for anyone from an excellent writer of comicbooks and novels.
An excellent primer on storytelling for the visual medium! There are many books on storytelling, but none can match Peter David's book "Writing for Comics" with regards to writing for the sequential arts medium. Whether you are interested in writing a super-hero comic or a webcomic, there is excellent information to be had by reading this book.
Peter David, the prolific writer behind a plethora of fiction books (both literary novel and comic books) writes a clear, concise, and occasionally humor-weaved primer on writing for comics. I found this book to be well written, interesting, and informative to read. Many examples from both past and present day comics are used to illustrate critical storytelling elements (climax, plot, theme, etc).
In summary, this book does what it says in the title, and does it well. Highly recommended for writers and aspiring-writers alike.
Lively, bite-sized nuggets I'm not sure what I was expecting with this book, but I had a great time reading it. Although its short sections and chapters made it easy to find a stopping place, its lively presentation and accompanying graphics made it hard for me to put down.
If you want to start writing for comics, this book gives you the basics of theme, conflict, and characterization, as well as the limits of presenting them in a comic book format. Then it continues with practical advice about how to present your work to the industry professionals who would buy it. Finally, if you're just a Peter David fan, you get a bit of insight into his thought processes.
I wouldn't recommend this as your only book to understand comics. Scott McCloud and Will Eisner have books that dissect and explain the mechanisms of quality comics. But for its narrower focus of how to create a comic book story, Peter David's work is as good as anything I've seen.
Plenty to appreciate Comic fans, science fiction buffs and graphic novel writers alike will find a fine how-to book by a leading comic book writer in WRITING FOR COMICS WITH PETER DAVID. His writing prompts, stories, and humor is something different, outlining the basics of character and plot development, pacing, and sound effects in a manner beginners will find most accessible. Add memoirs and anecdotes of his life as a comic/graphic novel writer and you'll find plenty to appreciate, even if you don't pick up a pen to try your own hand.
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