our first ever sale of Mastering Comics, at TCAF 2012

Mastering Comics has been out for over a month now, and we’ve been receiving interviews about it and seen many good reviews around the web.  Here are some of the places you can find out more:

In our interview with MTV Geek‘s Danica Davidson, we were asked about the differences between Drawing Words and Writing Pictures and Mastering Comics and who we want to reach out to.  We explain that as well as a bit about some of the categories we cover in the new book. We’re in this post by A.V. Club on the latest graphic novels and art comics, we have a review by Internal Correspondence v.2, and Mastering Comics is mentioned in Matt’s 15 Questions interview with Julinda Morrow on Sequential Highway. Another interview with Matt just appeared on Robot 6 where he talks about the title “Mastering Comics”, issues around publishing, and the potential of webcomics. Over on his blog, Matt made a more personal appeal to readers about the new book.

Looking ahead, we’ll have interviews out soon on The Comics Reporter, The Comics Journal online, and more.

Here’s our Goodreads page where those who’ve read our book can post their own reviews and ratings, so you can check that out as time goes by as well.

It’s been snorting at the starting gate for a few weeks now, and after a brief warm up run around the course at TCAF, today Mastering Comics: Drawing Words & Writing Pictures Continued is officially released barrelling and sprinting into the world! Please buy a copy from your favorite bookseller, ask your library to order a copy or two. Thanks for all of your support and cheering up to this point, now let’s see how this baby handles on the open road (oops, switched metaphors!).

–Matt and Jessica

I’ll post the lettering demo videos very soon.

Part 1: live area

Part 2: original size and ratio

Part 3: laying out the live area

Part 4: laying out the tiers