Nat Gertler
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Guiding the Complete Idiot
I just finished reading The Complete Idiot’s guide to Creating a Graphic Novel (Alpha Books, 2004) by Nat Gertler and Steve Lieber. There are a lot of books out there that speak to the art and the craft of making comics, but few are so systematic. This book covers all aspects of comic art production…
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“Teaching” Graphic Novels
Last year, I was invited to attend a one-day workshop in Vancouver on the subject of graphic novels. The workshop was sponsored by the Educational Resources Acquisition Consortium (ERAC), an organization which, up until recently, was fully funded by the provincial government. ERAC serves as a one-stop shop where teachers from across British Columbia can…
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