by Ned Hartley (Author), Alex Lopez (Illustrator)
Packed with story ideas, drawing tips, and creative prompts, this playful beginner-friendly guide is everything kids need to bring their imagination to the page and make comics all their own.
This is the only beginner-friendly guide kids need to create their own comics! Learn the building blocks--panels, speech bubbles, splash pages, sound effects, and more--then practice with a built-in story-generator tool to dream up adventures all your own.
More than just blank pages, it's a complete guide to what makes comics work, with templates and hints for getting the best out of every idea.
- Over 30 lessons and dozens of creative prompts
- Templates and 'blank' comic spreads to fill in
- Tips for funny gags, scary tales, and superhero action
- Bonus drawing lessons from cartoonists Dana Simpson, Lincoln Peirce, and Li Chen
Grab your pencil and start making comics only you could imagine!
Author Biography
Ned Hartley writes comics and books for children. You can read his work in the Beano comic every week. Ned has written lots of books including the best-selling Marvel Origins: Spider-Man, The Ladybird Big Book of Dead Things, Together We Can, Great Lives: Albert Einstein, Marvel: the Science of Superheroes, The Marvel Museum and loads more, many of them about superheroes and comics. He's also written comics for 2000AD, Monster Fun and Wallace & Gromit Comics. He lives in London with his wife and two children.
Alex Lopez, born in 1976 in Sabadell, a city near Barcelona (Spain), has over 15 years of experience as a professional illustrator. His work and books have been published in many countries including USA, UK, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy and Turkey. Alex has also created illustrations for educational books, marketing and video games, mostly for children and teenagers. Alex is often asked what his secret is. His answer is simple: listening to music and eating chocolate.
Number of Pages: 112
Dimensions: 0.3 x 10.9 x 8.5 IN
Publication Date: July 28, 2026
