How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way

How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way is a book by Stan Lee and John Buscema. The book teaches the aspiring comic book artist how to draw and create comic books. The examples are from Marvel Comics and Buscema artwork.^{[1][page needed]} It was first published in 1978 by Marvel Fireside Books and has been reprinted regularly. The book created a generation of cartoonists who learned there was a "Marvel way to draw and a wrong way to draw".^{[2][page needed]} It is considered "one of the best instruction books on creating comics ever produced".^{[3][page needed]}

Scott McCloud has cited the book as a good reference for teaching the process of making comic books.^{[4][page needed]}

Lee and Buscema also created a video version of the book which is now on DVD.^{[citation needed]}

The book's popularity resulted in two follow-ups that played on the title: "How to Read Comics the Marvel Way"^[5] by Christopher Hastings and others (2022), and "How to Create Comics the Marvel Way"^[6] by Mark Waid (2024).

See also

• Marvel Premiere Classics
• The Official Marvel Try-Out Book
• Stan Lee

References

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