The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing Comics: How to Create and Sell Comic Books, Manga, and Webcomics

This book is extremely well-written. It's clear and concise, communicating concepts and techniques naturally. Amazingly information dense, the text is easy to grasp because of the fluid, casual tone. My impression is that Comfort and Adam are masters of the English language. Their "How-To" guide demonstrates that people can create a technical book that helps people understand and learn in the best possible way. I felt Comfort and Adam were involving me, from the inside, with the relevant subject matter.When it comes to subject matter, this book "connected the dots" concerning various topics I've learned previously. For example, I initially wanted to use this reference to understand digital coloring techniques and workflow. Comfort and Adam point out there are different, yet similar, techniques and that they are presenting an approach that works best for them. In the coloring section, many comics industry leaders present "Pro Tips" that parallel Comfort and Adam's approach and also "Pro Tips" that illuminate different approaches. This helped tremendously to sort through all the other books I've read. Comfort and Adam's writing brings things together in a cohesive whole. This dynamic runs through out the book, and covers the spectrum of subjects pertinent to comics creation, e.g. concept, writing, creation, publishing, marketing.I've had the good fortune to learn about Comfort and Adam by attending a Comic-Con a while back. They are friendly, dynamic, and consummate professionals. For example, when they didn't have people at their booth they were blisteringly busy working on stacks of commissioned art. When approaching them at their booth, they were effortlessly inviting, warm, and informative. At the same Comic-Con, they also presented a wonderfully engrossing talk on comic creation (perhaps a precursor to their "How-To" guide). From following their career (through social media) it is clear they are "in the trenches" creating their own comics, practicing the art of teaching others (they give many talks each year), and tirelessly promoting through Comic-Cons. They know the realities of time-management and cultivating relationships with fans and other professionals; when it comes to this area, their book gives guidance that can frankly be generalized to any career in the modern age.This text is an indispensible tool from people that intimately know their craft. I highly recommend "The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing Comics"!

This book is not all inclusive when it comes to concepts like learning to draw and other basic art concepts, but it does showcase important things that many comic creators overlook when doing their books and if you can learn those things you will be better prepared to venture into the realm of making and publishing your own books. It also gives some good resources and links of where to start and follow up to further your book. The segments on writing, lettering, and how to do comic book conventions/shows alone are worth the price of the book.If you are solely a writer and not an artist you may feel a bit left out on the majority of the book, but there is still something here for you to justify the purchase (though that depends on your writing expertise) not only that it gives you peek into the inside dealings of the other side of the spectrum which is the artists; so it can create more of an appreciation for those peoples jobs (letterers included). Either way this book will be helpful to most and is worth a look.

This book is very informative and I am really enjoying reading it. Making a comic book has been a goal of mine for awhile, and i recently just started actually getting into developing my story. This book is helping me organize my story and characters with really great advice! I took a sequential art class my last year of college and this book is actually a lot more informative than the class was lol. I can’t blame my teacher though, he was mostly a painting teacher and he was super awesome. I was never an avid comic book reader as a kid, but I love story telling and drawing. I know this is the right median for my storytelling because I love doing it. Its super fun making a comic (even when its complicated) and its fun creating the story!

If you do, or ever wanted to do, comics and/or sequential art or manga, this is one of the few instructional books on comics that you will always want to re-read, keep in your library, AND loan out to friends and give as gifts. The sidebar professional tips are worth the cost of the book alone, not to mention the instructional sections on marketing and coloring. I put off buying this book for far too long and will be re-reading and recommending this book to friends and fellow sequential artists for many years to come. I've worked in this field for over 30 years and have quite a collection of instructional books on doing comics and can honestly tell you that this is one of the BEST. WELL DONE!!!

Adam and comfort are true professionals of their craft and this book is proof of that. not only going into extreme details on the stuff you are excited to learn, they take a lot of time focusing on the stuff that you normally wouldn't think of. these reminders and tips in the world of self publishing can sometimes literally save you hundreds of Dollars. this is a book that any Self publishing creator cannot afford to go without!*full disclosure - Adam and Comfort have been close personal and industry friends of mine for several years.

This book is great. I've purchased a lot of how to books from comic creators who work for mainstream comic companies such as Marvel and DC, but never one like this that is specifically aimed at the Indy guys. This book has a little of everything and explains it in detail. I definitely recommend this book if you are thinking about self publishing. I've self published myself for a couple of years now and I've learned quite a few tricks from this book myself. This book it is Awesome, Awesome, Awesome!!! Did I mention that this book is Awesome already? What are you waiting for. Got buy it.

My grandchildren love Santiago of the Seas show and this ship is their favorite toy. So nice for the price. I would recommend also buying the characters from the show. It adds a lot to the ship. It makes a wonderful set. My 2-1/2 and 5 year old grandchildren love it. We have had it for a couple of months and it is still their favorite toy. Great toy for the price.

My son loved it!!!

Well made. Would recommend. Kids love playing with it.

Ruined a gift!

I got this along with addition action figures sold separately and my kids love it. By itself its not bad but it just doesn’t come with a lot of figures to play with. The 2 together is amazing and my kids play all day with it.The boat’s quality is very detailed and made well. I am actually very impressed. The size is way larger than the picture online and this is a great gift as well.I’m very happy with this but wish it came with the addition figures.

If you want to put a huge smile on your child's face, you can't go wrong with this toy. At least, if your kid enjoys watching Santiago as much as our Little Girl does. See, there's been a problem with us finding the right pirate ship toy before. Nothing that my Wife and I have ever found has anything to do with a show that our Daughter actually enjoys. They're all generic ship toys. The closest we ever came to finding something good was the Little People ship. But it's not very detailed, and more geared towards younger kids. This ship is way more detailed. And more importantly, it has characters that she knows.I personally was really happy with the fact that it has phrases in both Spanish and English. Considering that our home is a bilingual one (English and Spanish speaking). So our Daughter loves it when any of her toys also speak Spanish. If your child doesn't speak Spanish, consider it a fun learning tool as well.I think the most important thing of all, is that this toy encourages your child to use their imagination more. Yes, Santiago is on TV. But at some point, we do need our kids to unplug for a bit. Unplug from the TV, the Switch, the tablet, video games, etc. And actually have fun the way kids did before all that stuff. Just enjoying their toys, using their imagination. Not to mention it's great to have some parent-child bonding time. Doing make-believe stuff with your child with this set. If you're a parent like I am, then you already know... those childhood years zoom by. You don't want to miss out. So order this today. It might only cost forty bucks or so. But you'll be making million-dollar memories for you and your child.

As far as 'plastic things' go this is on the cooler side. Exceptional gift for any Santiago fans out there, you'll be the favorite of the party. This boat rocks! Really bright, cute, well made, and most importantly fun set. The lights and sound effects are better than most and really bring the Santiago-esque feeling to imagination time. This has been our favorite toy for our 3 and 5 year old girls who are obsessed with pirates and Santiago.

Easy to put together and fun to play with. It is a great gift idea for your kids or a kid at heart. Its just too cute not to look at. I was very happy with it.

This book is extremely well-written. It's clear and concise, communicating concepts and techniques naturally. Amazingly information dense, the text is easy to grasp because of the fluid, casual tone. My impression is that Comfort and Adam are masters of the English language. Their "How-To" guide demonstrates that people can create a technical book that helps people understand and learn in the best possible way. I felt Comfort and Adam were involving me, from the inside, with the relevant subject matter.When it comes to subject matter, this book "connected the dots" concerning various topics I've learned previously. For example, I initially wanted to use this reference to understand digital coloring techniques and workflow. Comfort and Adam point out there are different, yet similar, techniques and that they are presenting an approach that works best for them. In the coloring section, many comics industry leaders present "Pro Tips" that parallel Comfort and Adam's approach and also "Pro Tips" that illuminate different approaches. This helped tremendously to sort through all the other books I've read. Comfort and Adam's writing brings things together in a cohesive whole. This dynamic runs through out the book, and covers the spectrum of subjects pertinent to comics creation, e.g. concept, writing, creation, publishing, marketing.I've had the good fortune to learn about Comfort and Adam by attending a Comic-Con a while back. They are friendly, dynamic, and consummate professionals. For example, when they didn't have people at their booth they were blisteringly busy working on stacks of commissioned art. When approaching them at their booth, they were effortlessly inviting, warm, and informative. At the same Comic-Con, they also presented a wonderfully engrossing talk on comic creation (perhaps a precursor to their "How-To" guide). From following their career (through social media) it is clear they are "in the trenches" creating their own comics, practicing the art of teaching others (they give many talks each year), and tirelessly promoting through Comic-Cons. They know the realities of time-management and cultivating relationships with fans and other professionals; when it comes to this area, their book gives guidance that can frankly be generalized to any career in the modern age.This text is an indispensible tool from people that intimately know their craft. I highly recommend "The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing Comics"!