Graphic Medicine

A series of one-page comics that tell the same story ninety-nine different ways. Intended to spark productive conversations among all types of creative people: novelists, screenwriters, graphic designers, and cartoonists.

Provides lessons on the art of cartooning along with information on terminology, tools, techniques, and theory.

Covers all of the basic steps necessary to produce a comic, from the first doodle to the finished publication.

A course on comic creation that centers on storytelling and concludes with making a finished comic. With chapters on lettering, story structure, and panel layout, in 15 lessons.

Learn how to control a story effectively using a broad array of techniques. With examples from Will Eisner's own catalog.

Offers selected pages from the author's illustrated notebooks kept during a three year period when she was figuring out how to teach a course on keeping creative notebooks.

Follow-up to Barry's bestselling Syllabus and this time she shares all of her comics-making exercises and detailing her creative curriculum

Explores how superhero comics, with their creative fusions of fantasy and realism, provide a flexible visual form for engaging issues of disability and intersectional identity (race, class, gender, sexuality) as well as for imagining and valuing different physical and cognitive ways of being in the world

Provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning. An essential (and fun!) read for anyone interested in how comics work.