When Alexa Kitchen says that she started drawing at age three, but didn’t start to get good until she was six or seven, you don’t need to take her word for it. Her first book, Drawing Comics Is Easy! ...

An instructional book for kids on drawing comics? There are plenty of those—but none like this one. Kitchen reportedly assembled the whole thing in a few days, at the age of seven (she's now 9). It's ...

Creating your own characters is one of the most gratifying things you can do as an artist. It’s a great way to solidify the various thoughts and concepts that can be churning around in your mind when ...

Bart Sears is one of those artists that you can recognize his work without having to look for his signature. He has worked with a great number of comic publishers over the years including Marvel, DC, ...

Sure, most comic book heroes can save their cities in a page or two. But make them spend a few minutes in the real world and they'd tip over, because the souped-up muscles they're packing can't be ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. In 1990, cartoonist Scott McCloud came up with a friendly challenge for himself and fellow comics artist Steve ...

I love a good comic jam. Back in my salad days at college, this generally involved sitting in a smokey dive bar with mostly strangers passing around notebooks of large format sketchpads taking turns ...