Best books on how to create manga comics according to redditors

We found 18 Reddit comments discussing the best books on how to create manga comics. We ranked the 12 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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Books how to create anime & cartoons
Books on how to create comics
How to create manga

Top Reddit comments about How To Create Comics & Manga:

u/northftw · 18 pointsr/funny

He was a God from the very start. Stan Lee designed him as a Super God (as per this book), and The Watcher describe him as such as well. He comes from Earth, he came about after Atum released earth-originating godly life-force back to Earth.

Valhalla isn't another world/planet in Marvel lore, it's a manifestation of human beliefs. Without Earth and humans there wouldn't be any Thor/Odin.

u/qumqam · 3 pointsr/pics

The artist is David Suter. (without an o, not the ex-Supreme Court Justice). You can view some more of his work here and I used to have a book of his cartoons, called Suterisms, but it looks out of print. I enjoyed his style as well and he had a lot of clever visual puns like this -- I might have first heard of him from an old Whole Earth Catalog.

Have been lurking for a while -- created an account just to post this for anyone curious.

u/broken_point · 3 pointsr/ipad

Apple Notes is great for sketching, if you want to go further then yes definitely Procreate, best bang for your buck and my personal favourite.

I can't recommend any apps for learning how to draw, but I can recommend these books to get you started, that is if you'll be interested in designing characters or drawing people etc;

Bridgmans Complete Guide Drawing From Life

Force by Mike Mattesi

The Silver Way by Stephen Silver

u/WoodElemental · 3 pointsr/visualnovels

There was a similar question here a year ago (https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/78tr3b/jops_of_rvisualnovels_tell_us_your_stories_of/), and I should probably re-post my reply from there, considering it apparently was well-regarded.

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I was introduced to anime at around late 2007, and by the first half of 2008 I noticed that I started to understand some simple words and phrases. That seemed like a chance to learn a language with minimal effort, so I gave it a try. The other factor was that kanji were always mysterious (and therefore attractive) to me, and I was really curious how a writing system like this works.

So I went to a nearby bookstore and bought a few Japanese language textbooks. Immediately I fell in love with the grammar, which was much more logical and structurally-beautiful than anything I have ever seen before that. Unfortunately though, all the textbooks that I bought had the same big flaw: they required you to learn a lot of words and kanji by heart to be able to read the example texts even in the early chapters.

Since my visual memory and lexical memory are really weak, that was like hitting a wall. I wanted to learn more grammar, but couldn't move forward because of arbitrary lexicon requirenments. So, at around 2009 I gave up on the textbooks I had and started googling for alternatives, and quickly stumbled on what I to this day consider the best language textbook ever: "Japanese in Mangaland".

https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Mangaland-Learning-Marc-Bernabe/dp/4889961151 https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-MangaLand-Basic-Intermediate-Level/dp/4889961860 https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-MangaLand-Intermediate-Level/dp/4889961879

It is brilliantly well-structured, gives all the "conversational grammar" that is completely ignored in "textbooks for serious people", but is dominating the Japanese found in anime and manga. It also gives a lot of examples, which look like taken from anime/manga situations, which makes it even more fun. And, most importantly for me, it does not ask you to learn 50-70 arbitrary words every chapter just to understand the grammar examples.

If you are anime/manga/VN fan, and still below N3 level, you should absolutely check Japanese in Mangaland out.

At around the same time I also stumbled upon a very efficient method of learning kanji: mnemonics. Instead of trying to remember each of the characters visually of mechanically (by writing it many times), you can look at its components (called 'radicals') and derive (or at least associate) the character's meaning from them. It does not work for all the kanji, but for those it does, it is so efficient, that you can easily learn 400-500 basic kanji within 2-3 weeks.

Unfortunately, the book that I was using for that is not available in English, but I've heard that "Kanji in Mangaland" and "Remembering the Kanji" are somewhat similar to what I've been using, so you should check it out also. Even if you know more than 500 kanji, you should try the mnemonics just to understand the method and be alble to apply it yourself.

After that I became very confident in my language skills. To the point that I ordered Suzumiya Haruhi light novels from Japanese Amazon. That was a mistake. I spent like two days deciphering the prologue (4 pages), and had to give up for some time. The problem was, despite knowing most of N3 grammar, and around 500 kanji, it was not nearly enough to read unadapted text by Tanigawa Nagaru. There were too many unfamiliar words and kanji. And the fact that the senteces were insanely long didn't help at all.

Thus I needed a way, to learn more words and kanji. And I found it in writing song lyrics by memory. The technique is like this: you take your favorite anime/VN song. Since it is your favorite, you should remember it somewhat well. You find the lyrics online and go through it, looking up all the unfamiliar words and kanji. And then, when you have free time, paper, and a pen (boring university lectures are especially good for that) you try to write the song's lyrics by memory. After repeating this several times, you should know all the song's lexicon and kanji quite well, and can move to the second favorite one. After doing for 5-6 songs, your vocabulary should become much bigger and your kanji count would probably be around 800-900.

For me that was the point when I tried to read some manga (for me it was "Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai"), and by the end of the 3rd volume I suddenly realized that I AM ACTUALLY READING IT UNTRANSLATED. Reading as in "reading without looking into dictionary every few minutes". That was one of the happiest moments in my life.

Unfortunately, it was still not nearly enough to read Suzumiya. Nevertheless, it was enough to start reading simpler LN: "Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai". That made me feel that I AM ACTUALLY READING IT feeling again.

It was around 2012, and at around the same time I discovered the VN medium, starting with F/sn. I did not dare to try it untranslated yet (remembering the Haruhi fiasco that happened twice), but in about a year of reading simple manga and LNs I decided to try some simple VN as an experiment. So I went to VNDB in search of well-rated untranslated simple VN (for the metric of "simplicity" I chose it being a SoL nukige), and found Kanojo x Kanojo x Kanojo. It was even easier to read than I expected.

So after imprinting a lot of anatomic vocabulary into my brain, I finally tried a much more challenging task: F/ha, which was yet untranslated at that time. And... I actually managed it. I cannot say it was easy, but I was still understanding what was written.

After the realization that I can read untranslated Nasu, it was a matter of time untill I completely stopped bothering with any translation for any Japanese media that I watch or read.

Happy End

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It was in late 2013. After that I basically stopped "learning" Japanese and started "using" it. Everything becomes super easy when you can google Japanese words and grammar structures in Japanese. By now I have finished a lot of untranslated work including notably hard ones like Muramasa and Monobeno, passed JLPT N1 (it was my first JLPT lol) two years ago, and am researching ways of relocating to Japan.

u/ripitflipit · 2 pointsr/HelpMeFind

What I found doesn't match your description, but it might help someone else out on the way. All of the cartoons that you mentioned were created by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and the book you read would probably be some sort of compilation-esque booklet like this or this or possibly this. Hope this can help!

u/autocannibal · 2 pointsr/trees

my first uneducated joint was more like a weed envelope of fail. I learned the "pinch and tuck" technique but my joints always came out pregnant. then I bought this and now all of my friends ALWAYS make me roll joints and blunts (even if they need a j for the road, i still have to roll it for em).


thats a nice cone you got there, much better than my first attempt.

u/time_and_again · 2 pointsr/animation

Speaking for myself, I'd also recommend Action Cartooning and Fantasy Cartooning by Ben Caldwell. Those jumpstarted my drawing back in high school. I know classical techniques and developing your own style are important, but there's genuinely a lot of solid advice for exaggerated posing, simplifying shapes and caricaturing the face to convey story, all of which apply to animation of all types.

u/shadus · 2 pointsr/gaming

Looks like Lady Cottingtons Pressed Fairy Journal.

( http://www.amazon.com/Lady-Cottingtons-Pressed-Fairy-Journal/dp/1556709048 )

u/quentin_tortellini · 2 pointsr/CharacterDevelopment

The Silver Way by Stephen Silver

Schoolism has multiple courses for character design as well.

Good luck! :)

u/random_digital · 1 pointr/comicbooks
u/Maga2electricchair5u · 1 pointr/furry_irl
u/gotafewqs · 1 pointr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

Does she like art/ like to draw or paint??

THIS is totally affordable and would be a really thoughtful gift, IMO, for someone who loves comics and also loves to make their own art in some fashion!

u/colossal_fuckup · 1 pointr/Marijuana

The joint-rolling handbook is an excellent resource for rolling:

http://www.amazon.com/Joint-Rolling-Handbook-Expert/dp/0932551238

Cones, windmills, all kinds of good stuff.

California / joints mostly for road trips / crutch=good / orange zig-zags or rice paper