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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Potts, Carl.

The DC Comics guide to creating comics : inside the art of visual storytelling / Carl Potts ; foreword by Jim Lee. — First

[edition].

Includes index.

1. Comic books, strips, etc.—Authorship. 2. Comic books, strips, etc.—Technique. I. Title.

PN6710.P68 2013

741.5′1—dc23

2012050026

ISBN 978-0-385-34472-2

eISBN: 978-0-38534473-9

Text design by Ken Crossland

Cover design by Ken Crossland

Cover art by Jim Lee (top images, front and back) and Bill Reinhold (bottom)

Half-title page: Art by Adam Hughes

Title page: Art by Ivan Reis

This page and this page: Composed using art assets from DC Comics Style Guides

v3.1

To those who love comic books/graphic novels and wish to create

them or to better appreciate why comics are such a powerful

storytelling medium.