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Create Your Own Graphic Novel: A Guide for Kids: Write and Draw Your Own Book Paperback – September 8, 2020

by David Wayne Chiu (Author)
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 738 ratings
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Create your own comic book with this illustrated guide for kids 8-12!

Swashbuckling adventure, spooky mystery, thrilling fantasy—any story you can dream up can be a dazzling comic book. Discover the power of storytelling when you write a graphic novel that puts your drawing, writing, and imagination skills into action!

This guide to graphic novels for kids helps you:

Make comics like a pro—Fun exercises will teach you the best techniques for writing an outline, planning the transitions between panels, and more.

Create from beginning to end—Learn the steps for writing and illustrating your story from start to finish and find 50 pages of blank graphic novel panels to fill with anything you like!

Add the details—Explore how to bring your comics to life with speech bubbles, sound effects, inking, and coloring.

Whether you want to invent a new superhero, make a world of talking animals, or share stories from your real life, all you need is this blank comic book for kids—and your creativity!
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    8 - 11 years, from customers
  2. Print length
    80 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Grade level
    3 - 4
  5. Lexile measure
    920L
  6. Dimensions
    8 x 0.4 x 10 inches
  7. Publisher
    Rockridge Press
  8. Publication date
    September 8, 2020
  9. ISBN-10
    1647399076
  10. ISBN-13
    978-1647399078
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Everything kids ages 8 to 12 need to start creating their own comics

Offering an illustrated guide, practice exercises, and pre-made comic pages, this is the most complete comic creation package for kids. Help young artists and writers explore their creative side as they make their own amazing graphic novels.

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PANELING AND PAGE LAYOUT

Discover how the shape and placement of panels control the flow of time and action.

SPEECH BUBBLES AND SOUND EFFECTS

Learn how silent comic pages can fill the imagination with sounds and voices.

PENCILS AND INKS

See how a comic progresses from the first sketches on the page to a complete picture.

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“David Chiu truly makes drawing comics fun in this book: he manages to share his expertise succinctly while not bogging down the reader with too many lengthy explanations. I would recommend this book to children of any age interested in drawing their own graphic novel, and any teacher to have to help prepare for teaching comics in the classroom.” —David Shear, Art Teacher, Long Island, NY

“David Wayne Chiu’s Create Your Own Graphic Novel is a great starter workbook for the young cartoonist. Whereas many how-to-draw-comics books get bogged down in drawing technique, Chiu’s focus is on the more integral aspects of comics—storytelling and theory! He succeeds in presenting these topics so as to make them comprehensible to the young reader, in a sequence of step-by-step interactive lessons. This is a great introductory volume to prepare the young cartoonist for the more advanced Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud.” —Jason Little, Cartooning Coordinator, School of Visual Arts

“If you're curious about comics as a creative means to tell your story, Create Your Own Graphic Novel: A Guide for Kids is an absolute must-get! It's an essential guide that walks the reader through all the basics in a clever and engaging way. David Wayne Chiu utilizes his deft skill, combining words and pictures to give you the understanding of how you, too, can create your own story using words and pictures. He conveys the joy and relative ease of the task while covering a lot of ground. For those of you looking to create your own graphic novel, there is no better way to start than with this guide. Highly recommended!” —Fletcher Chu-Fong

About the Author

DAVID WAYNE CHIU provides an array of sequential art and illustration services. His comic art has been published under Pronto Comics’ Deathology. David has illustrated several instructional comics for Controlled Combustion and Kaotica Corp and was a commercial storyboarder for Chubb Insurance, Brave New World, and Forge Apollo Videoworks.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rockridge Press (September 8, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 80 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1647399076
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1647399078
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 8 - 11 years, from customers
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 920L
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 3 - 4
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.4 x 10 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 738 ratings

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David Wayne Chiu is a sequential artist and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. A love of teaching others and drawing comics led him to authoring Create Your Own Graphic Novel: A Guide For Kids. He provides a wide array of illustration services ranging from storyboards, to comics, to illustrations, having publication in Pronto Comics, storyboards for Forge Apollo, and instructional comics for Kaotica Corp.

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4.7 out of 5 stars
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Perfect for my comic son.
This is so awesome. Teaches him step by step.. He can write his own comics instead of using line paper. I cant wait to see his creations. Thanks again!
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Jessica Grace
5.0 out of 5 stars My kid loves it!
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2024
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My kiddo is obsessed with graphic novels and has used this book daily since getting it on Christmas. She is now drawing things independently in the comic style and loves referencing this book.
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Cali Muchacha
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent guide for the beginning graphic novel or comic writer and illustrator
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2024
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This book will definitely help the first-time writer or illustrator. Useful tips on how to create a graphic book or comic. The author/illustrator has a great sense of humor when he presents his suggestions. Nice layout templates.
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Nicole Edington
5.0 out of 5 stars Gift recipient loved it.
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2023
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We got this for a graphic novel fan. 8 year old loved creating her own stories. Plenty of room to draw and write. Use colored pencils not markers as they bleed.
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Goddess of Chaos
4.0 out of 5 stars I give it four stars... the Comic Book reader in the household was a bit less impressed...
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2020
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This book has a variety of panel layouts, gives a guide on how to lay out your panels -- showing how panels are read, which direction, which one first, giving a lot of interesting guidelines/suggestions/thoughts on what artists are doing as they are laying out a Comic Book or Graphic novel.

This isn't about how to draw a person... but how to use this medium with the person you are drawing... how to do speech bubbles, how to think through the panels... a lot of stuff that kids who love reading comics and enjoying drawing could learn a lot from.

I do wish it was easier to remove the pages and "shuffle the order" of the layouts once a story was in mind... but... that might be asking for a lot from a bound book.

When I showed this to the Comic Book Reader in the family (and long time collector) he mentioned that some of the panel layouts were not ones he saw very often and were not ones he would suggest for a first time artist, some were challenging to fit in, some were challenging to clearly show the reader how to move between. I was intrigued by that feedback, but as the non-Comic Reader, trying to encourage a child's interest... I wasn't sure what to do with the information.
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Kaitlyn
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect 101
Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2023
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I ordered this as an option for a ‘Comic Camp’ textbook/workbook I’ll be teaching this summer.. the organization I teach for ended up ordering a copy for each student and we will do the same next year! It’s the perfect Graphic Novel 101 book. I’d say ideal for ages 8-12 (or age 34 because it was also perfect for me).. lots of blank pages/panels of varying formats in the back of the book! Lots!!!
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Deb
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect!
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2022
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Perfect for my son who loves to read and write stories. I can’t wait to see what he comes up with!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Granddaughter of 10 loved this book!
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2022
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My granddaughter who just turned 10, loves to read Graphic Novels. She also loves to draw her own graphic novels. She loved this book, which we got her for her birthday!
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The Teach
5.0 out of 5 stars My 9 year old LOVED this!
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2022
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Perfect for kids who are into graphic novels, such as Dog Man, and want to create their own.
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Liz MacDonnell
4.0 out of 5 stars Not thorough enough
Reviewed in Australia on August 30, 2023
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Although the preview pictures are good in kindle. Once I got the book, I was very disappointed there was no real example contents or directions. I expected more for the price. If I wanted comic panels I’d make or download them not buy a book with more of those than content.
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