TUTORIALS / PROCESS / INTERVIEWS
- Coloring Comics Digitally with Kazu Kabuishi
- Using Photoshop Actions to Speed the Process
- Various interviews with comics writers, publishers and artists onย The Comics Journal
- The Personal Touch (audio recording of panel on personalizing your comics)
- How to Make an Interactive Comic video by Jason Shiga
- Understanding, Making and Teaching Comics audio panel by Scott McCloud and James Sturm
- Craig Thompson on his process for his six year-long book, Habibi
- Making and Sticking to a Schedule by Alec Longstreth
- Comic Tools (tools, techniques, processes)
- Reproducing Your Work (tools, techniques, process)
- Lettering Comics (tutorial)
- Cartooning Course (tutorial, ebook, techniques, tools)
- Making Comics with Doug TenNapel (video)
- Jeff Smith Inks a Panel (video)
- Design Can Make You Happy by Stefan Sagmeister (video)
PODCASTS / BLOGS
- The Panelists (techniques, tutorials, reviews)
- Escape From Illustration Island (tutorials, interviews, videos, business)
- The Process Diary (tutorials on drawing comics, tools and techniques)
- The Comics Journal (interviews, reviews, process)
- Drawing Words and Writing Pictures (interviews, tutorials, games, processes, techniques, classes, workshops)
- Scott McCloud (excellent resource on comics creators, publishers, tutorials, the works!)
- 20 Questions with Cartoonists (interviews, process, tools, techniques)
- The Tools Artists Use (tools, interviews)
- The Red Lemon (process, promotion)
DRAWING, WRITING AND MAKING COMICS BOOKS
- Making Comics by Scott McCloud (at the Orem and Provo libraries)
- Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud (at the Orem library)
- Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards (at the Orem and Provo Libraries)
- Drawing Words and Writing Pictures by Jessica Abel (at the Orem and Provo libraries)
- You Can Do a Graphic Novel by Barbara Slate (at the Provo library)
- The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Making a Graphic Novel by Nate Gertler (at the Provo library)
- Adventures in Cartooning by James Sturm (at the Orem and Provo libraries)
- Whatcha Mean What’s a Zine?: the Art of Making Zines and Minicomics (at the Orem and Provo libraries)
- Writing and Illustrating the Graphic Novel by Mike Chinn (at the Orem and Provo libraries)
- Creat Your Own Graphic Novel: Using Digital Techniques by Mike Chinn (at the Provo library)
- What It Is by Lynda Barry
- Picture This by Lynda Barry
COMICS and GRAPHIC NOVELS I LOVE
- Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
- The Unsinkable Walker Bean by Aaron Renier (at the Orem and Provo libraries)
- Spiral-Bound by Aaron Renier (at the Provo library)
- Bone by Jeff Smith (at the Orem and Provo libraries)
- Ghostopolis by Doug TenNapel (at the Orem and Provo libraries)
- Iron West by Doug TenNapel
- Mosquito by Dan James
- Salamander Dream by Hope Larson
- The Best of American Comics, 2008 (at the Orem library)
- Crickets #1 by Sammy Harkham
- Maus by Art Spiegelman (at the Orem library)
- Owly by Andy Runton (at the Orem and Provo libraries)
- Epileptic by David B (at the Orem library)
- The Arrival by Shaun Tan (at the Orem and Provo libraries)
- the Amulet series by Kazu Kabuishi (at the Orem and Provo libraries)
- Thoreau at Walden by Henry David Thoreau and John Porcellino (at the Orem
- King Cat Comics by John Porcellino
- Johnny Boo by James Kochalka (at the Orem and Provo libraries)
- The Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelan (at the Orem and Provo libraries)
- Stitches: a Memoir by David Small (at the Orem library)
- Meanwhile by Jason Shiga (at the Orem library)
- Blankets by Craig Thompson
- Gear by Doug TenNapel
- Garage Band by Gipi
- Clumsy by Jeffrey Brown
- Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O’Malley
- Cat Burglar Black by Richard Sala (at the Provo library)
INSPIRATION FOR DRAWING, ILLUSTRATING AND COMICS:
- Drawn!
- American Elf
- Ratfist
- Hark! A Vagrant
- Emily Carroll Comics
- Jinx the Money
- A Day in the Life (video)
- Double Fine Action Comics
- What Things Do
- Inky Goodness
OTHER
- Make a Comic Zine Workshop March 9, 2011
- Center for Cartoon Studies (Aย two-year course of studyย that centers on the creation and dissemination of comics, graphic novels and other manifestations of the visual narrative.
- Find a comic book store near you!
- Free Comic Book Day (free comics, May 7)
- The Human Calendar
LOCAL COMICS ARTISTS/AUTHORS
- Rebecca Jensen (artist, writer)
- Jake Black (writer)
- Stephen Gashler (writer, artist, musician, actor, playwright, wizard)
- Writing Snippets (writing blog)
- Writing Excuses (writing and process with local authors)
- A Magical Roommate (webcomic)
- Periodic Heroes (comics art)
- JJ Harrison (artist and all-around nice guy)
- Phillip Sevy (comics artist)
- Jake Parker (comics artist)
- Howard Tayler (comics artist, writer and publisher)
- Nathan Hale (comics and picture book artist)
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