A veteran comic book publisher demonstrates everything aspiring visual media artists need to know about sequential art, covering each stage of the production process, the basics of figure drawing and anatomy, and the essential of page composition, layout, and design

• Harlan Ellison/With the eyes of a demon: seeing the fantastic as a video image
• Storytelling: the universal language
• The “Seeing Place”: the evolution of theater
• Telling a story through visual imagery
• The visual storytelling media
• From frame to frame
• Panel to panel
• Scene to scene
• Level to level
• Cross-pollination: frame/panel/level
• Behind the scenes
• Film and animation
• Comics
• Interactive games
• The visual storytelling design palette
• Clarity
• Realism
• Dynamism
• Continuity
• Total immersion
• The drawing board
• Art and technology
• Using reference
• The question of style
• Figure drawing
• Perspective and relative proportion
• The camera in the mind's eye

• Distance
• Camera angles
• Depth of field, focus, and movement
• A miscellany of shots
• Lighting and color
• Lighting: the invisible character
• Light and color
• Radiosity in 3D
• Steranko cover art gallery: storytelling in a single image
• Illustrating for film
• The silhouette
• Planes and light
• Timing and pace
• Who runs the time machine?
• Style in motion
• Dynamic timing in a static medium
• Tricks of the trade
• Xtreme techniques
• Specialty line work
• Multiple images and morphing
• Framing
• Tilt
• Some effects to avoid
• Wally Wood: the master of the dynamic panel
• An I for an eye
• Words with pictures
• Designing from a script
• Communicating through design

• Mise-en-scene and montage
• Page layout
• Panel composition
• Panel borders as a design element
• Jim Steranko/Harnessing mythology: reflections on narrative theory