| How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way | |
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 Cover art byJohn Buscema | |
| Date | 1978 |
| Page count | 192 pages |
| Publisher | Marvel Fireside Books |
| Creative team | |
| Writers | Stan Lee |
| Pencillers | John Buscema |
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| Date of publication | 1978 |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-0671530778 |
How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way is a book byStan Lee andJohn Buscema. The book teaches the aspiringcomic book artist how to draw and create comic books. The examples are fromMarvel Comics and Buscema artwork.[1][page needed] It was first published in 1978 byMarvel 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] byChristopher Hastings and others (2022), and "How to Create Comics the Marvel Way"[6] byMark Waid (2024).
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