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Creating Comics!
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Creating Comics!

by Judith Salavetz, Spencer Drate, Paul Gulacy
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
6h 49m
English
Rockport Publishers
Content preview from Creating Comics!
Punk #1 cover: Lou Reed
Punk #4 cover: Iggy Pop
Client: PUNK magazine
Media: Strathmore Bristol paper,
pen and ink, overlays used for color
Creative Process
This was the first record cover I ever drew, back when that
was a huge deal. (Record covers and national magazine
covers were the highway to fame and fortune for artists back
in the late twentieth century.) I had drawn the inside cover
art and back cover for The Ramones’ Rocket to Russia album.
The people at the record label showed me a sketch by Gus
MacDonald, a Ramones fan from Scotland, that they thought
would make a good cover, and I agreed that someone else
should draw it.
I suggested ...
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