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Summary: How come this book never got a second volume?
Review: I remember when this book first came out in 1978...it was like having a comic book course right at your fingertips. I loved the way they show the reader how to make the panels flow with the story. How exaggeration is critical when drawing bigger than life characters. There are a lot of books since that picked up the ball and did better than this. The Hart comic how to's come to mind...but this is the one that started it all..I wish Buscema had written a few more volumes on his own. If only I could have taken his drawing classes back in the seventies.
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Summary: An essential reference book for all artists!
Review: I think every serious or aspiring artist should own this book. I've had a copy since the early '80s, andit became so dog-eared from frequentuse, that I had to buy another. John Buscema is an excellent teacher. After all, if you're goingto learn to draw, you might as well learn from the best; and John IS the best, IMO. Among other things, the book contains vital rules for drawing in perspective, and drawing lifelike human faces and figures. This is not just a book for comic fans, or kids, it's for everyone!
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Summary: Even if you LOATHE Marvel comics, this book is good.
Review: I'm not a fan of most Marvel comics, particularly the 60s and 70s style this book is presented in. But the techniques it demonstrates (more lucidly than a lot of others) are useful for any style of comic art (or even for laying out more realistic drawings). Most fan-artists who THINK they know how to draw (but they don't and it shows) could stand to take a look at this book.
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Summary: awsome
Review: If you're a kid who is really serouse about comic art...this book's for you. If you're a kid who is tired of stick men and wants some instruction...this book's for you. If you have ever marveled at comic pros like Jim Lee, Andy& Adam Kurburt and countless others...this books for you. If ya wanna know how to construct a hero or villin...this books for you. But if you are majoring in art at highschool...this book IS NOT for you! This book is best described as a transition betwean the kiddi stuff and learning the real hard core stuff behind comic art.
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Summary: It's to bad I don't own it..................
Review: It's a good book for getting started. It was one of the first How-to-Draw books, and even if it's a little dated it's still better then some modern How-to-Draw books. It gives you some proportion guidlines, faces, dynamic angles, inking and the comic book cover. It's not very stylized, which is good because the book isn't commanding you to copy their drawing style. One of the reasons that I think it's good is becouse it makes you want to draw. A lot of modern books are kind of blah in the sense that you just like looking at the pictures. This book is for begginers without having a baby drawning style which makes you feel like a fool. This book is very well made, and one of the only weaknesses I can think of is it dosn't show you how to draw everyday clothes (folds etc.). I really like this book becouse it's a firm starting point.
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Summary: Great!
Review: It's a nice book!It tells U rules about how to draw the human figure, male or female that U can always relate to. Also faces, acion poses, dynamic angles, body construction, comic panels, vanishing point, etc. The drawings are great, even if they're a bit dated.
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Summary: Worth the money...for at least one great lesson.
Review: My Mom bought this book for me when I was about 12 years old. I was going to be the next Frank Frazetta/ John Byrne... so I was very excited to get it for a birthday. It taught me alot about perspective, figure drawing, presentation, and lettering..at least it got me started. But the most important thing I learned from this book was to draw constantly-- draw anything and everything, every day for the rest of my life. That's what will make you a good artist.
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Summary: Good nostalgia
Review: No one is more qualified than Stan "The Man: Lee and "Big
John" Buscema. Stan's trademark prose and Buscema's art
establish the foundation for what will become a good learning
experience for any aspiring young artist. Got my copy back
in 81 or 82. Had to replace it in 92 (things get lost when
moving.). And it still has an honorary place on my shelf.
If you are a kid with an interest in learning to draw, this
book is a good place to start. It keeps things simple.
However, you probably don't want to make it your bible.
The Marvel Way as outlined in this text was established by an
older generation of creators who are now mostly retired
or died off.
(Indeed, John Buscema passed away earlier this year)
The new jack fandom of artists is proven to have their own
aesthetics and principles and may clash with some of what
this book teaches. And BTW, this all started to
happen long before the intrusion of the manga/anime style,so
there are other aspects to blame. As pure nostalgia, this book isn't bad at all. And you could
always give it to your kids.
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Summary: More a basis than the only tome you will need
Review: Overcoming Stan's hyperbolic style, the earlier chapters of the book are the most useful and where any aspirant artist should make sure they have everything covered. Particularly good are the perspective chapters. Later on the book tends to gloss over things, partially (one suspects) because they are harder to explain. Having been through various copies over the years I can assuredly say I have yet to actually glean anything from the composition chapter and there is precious little of any use in the inking section. A good foundation, but nothing particularly more.
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Summary: go buy it!!!!
Review: STAN LEE AND JOHN BUSCEMA,two of the best names in comics produce a how to book fantastically!!Buy this book if you want to be a comic illustrator!from panels,pages,characters etc. plus an insight on inking! nuff said!
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