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Create Your Own Comics

Everything You Need to Know
By Ned Hartley
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The only guide you’ll ever need to making your very own cool comics. Create Your Own Comics is packed with story ideas, drawing tips, creative prompts, and loads of fun suggestions to start you off on your way to becoming a comic master. This isn’t just... Read More
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Create Your Own Comics is packed with story ideas, drawing tips, creative prompts and loads of fun suggestions to start you off on your way to becoming a comic master.

Find out all about cracking comics and how to make your very own.

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The only guide you’ll ever need to making your very own cool comics. Create Your Own Comics is packed with story ideas, drawing tips, creative prompts, and loads of fun suggestions to start you off on your way to becoming a comic master.

This isn’t just page after page of blank comic pages. It’s a comprehensive guide to what makes comics work, with templates to help you find your way and hints for getting the best out of your own story ideas.

Learn the basics of common comic elements and how to use them, including panels, speech bubbles, splash pages, and sound effects. Find out how to create comics in different styles and genres, from funny to scary and superheroes to monsters. Once you feel you’re a comic master, practise your new skills by using the story generator tools to get your imagination pumping and come up with unique stories of your very own.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781916763081

Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 January 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Buster Books

Illustration: Full colour illustrations

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Alex Lopez

Audience: General / adult, Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 9.0mm

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 398g

Pages: 96

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Arts & Culture Children's Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Education & Reference Humour Ned Hartley

About the Author

Ned Hartley writes comics and books for children, and currently writes the Bananaman stories that appear in the Beano every week. Ned has written lots of books including the best-selling Marvel Origins: Spider-Man, The Ladybird Big Book of Dead Things, Together We Can, Great Lives: Albert Einstein, Marvel: the Science of Superheroes, the Marvel Museum and loads more, many of them about superheroes and comics. He's also written comics for 2000AD, Monster Fun and Wallace & Gromit Comics. He lives in London with his wife and two children.

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