Resources by comics creators, educators and scholarship that center around the craft of reading, making and teaching comics. Includes recommended essays and resources on developing critical thinking on visual arts, storytelling and writing.

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Scholarly Resources / Databases

Similar sites engaging in comics studies and criticism, as well as the collection of comics.

• Abstract Comics
  The first and most comprehensive source of abstract comics on the web, tracing the history and surveying the contemporary landscape of abstract sequential art.
• Comic Cartography
  A collection of maps in comics.
• The Comic Book Sound Effect Database
• Scott McCloud’s Inventions
• Visual Language Lab
• ImageTexT. A web-based academic journal on imagetexts.
• Comics Studies Society
• Kwakk
  Search engine & archive for 11 comics magazines across the decades
• The Art and History of Lettering Comics (Todd Klein)
  A free online book on the author's site.
• FOLIO
  Database of interviews and essays documenting the history of Australian comics

Essays from Comics Creators

• The Word for World is Image. Charis Loke & Max Loh.
• Standards, Semantics & Sequential Art. Pablo Defendini.

Craft Blogs, Magazines, Podcasts and Videos from Comics Creators and Critics

• Screentones Podcast
• Strip Panel Naked
• SOLRAD
• Gladiolus Magazine
• PanelxPanel
• Drawing Dialogue
• Make It Then Tell Everybody
• Hass’ Lettering List
• The Art of Comics Podcast

Comics Education by Comics Creators

• Comic Art Ed!
• Sequential Artists Workshop
• The Center of Cartoon Studies

Resources Curated for Comics Creators

• Creators Resource
• Cartoonist Cooperative
  The Cooperative also maintains an extensive page of resources.
• Comics Advocacy Group

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