Graphic Novels: Creating
5 Easy Steps To Creating a Graphic Novel | With Author Marieke Nijkamp & Illustrator Sylvia Bi
In this step-by-step tutorial, author Marieke Nijkamp and illustrator Sylvia Bi, creators of the inspiring novel "Ink Girls," will guide you through the process on how to create your own graphic novel! From developing characters and exciting plot lines to expert drawing techniques and writing advice, this video has everything you need to know about getting started in the world of graphic novels.
Video Length: 3 min 27 sec
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How Do You Make a Graphic Novel (and, Why Do They Take So Long?)Popular graphic novelist Raina Telgemeier discusses her creative process.
How to Publish a Graphic Novel: A Beginner's Guide to Start
See step by step, how to write, illustrate and publish a graphic novel from beginning to end. This video explains how to develop a graphic novel idea, how to pitch to publishers and agents, sketch out the layouts, add colour, and market the work. Discussion by Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artist Cat Huang, and guest artist Clar Angkasa.
Video Length: 39 min 37 sec
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Graphic novels: Can we grow them at home? The editing and publishing of graphic novels in the USA comprehensive guide to graphic novel publishing has been produced by the 2023-24 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellow, Sophie Splatt. Featuring recommendations to grow the local (Australian) market, her report ‘Graphic novels: Can we grow them at home? The editing and publishing of graphic novels in the US’ is based on a three-month trip exploring US industry best practice.
Intersectionality and Postcolonialism in Graphic Novels
A Journey to Graphic Novels: Stick Mob
Video length: 4 min 54 sec
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Comics and Agency
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This volume aims to intensify the interdisciplinary dialogue on comics and related popular multimodal forms (including manga, graphic novels, and cartoons) by focusing on the concept of medial, mediated, and mediating agency. To this end, a theoretically and methodologically diverse set of contributions explores the interrelations between individual, collective, and institutional actors within historical and contemporary comics cultures. -
Drawing New Color Lines: Transnational Asian American Graphic Narratives
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The global circulation of comics, manga, and other such visual mediums between North America and Asia produces transnational meanings no longer rooted in a separation between “Asian” and “American.” Drawing New Color Lines explores the culture, production, and history of contemporary graphic narratives that depict Asian Americans and Asians. -
Queer Compassion in 15 Comics
This unique comic anthology takes its readers on a journey through different art styles and queer perspectives, from first Prides to multi-generational friendships to finding community among chosen families.
Graphic Novel Resources
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Comics, graphic novels, and manga : the ultimate teen guide
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Explores the history, evolution, diversification, and impact of graphic storytelling. This book looks at the origins of illustrated stories and how they evolved over the decades. -
Comics and Graphic Novels: International Perspectives, Education, and Culture
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This book provides international perspectives on comics and graphic novels in various contexts for education that may inform social cognition, curriculum theory, and cultural studies. -
Dreaming the Graphic Novel : The Novelization of Comics
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Examines how notions of the graphic novel began to coalesce in the 1970s, a time of great change for American comics, with declining sales of mainstream periodicals, the arrival of specialty comics stores, and (initially) a thriving underground comix scene. Surveying the eclectic array of long comics narratives that emerged from this fertile period, investigates texts that have fallen out of graphic novel history. -
Litcomix : Literary Theory and the Graphic Novel
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Critical studies of the graphic novel have often employed methodologies taken from film theory and art criticism. Using the methodology of Georg Lukács and his detailed defense of literary realism as a socially embedded practice, Litcomix tackles difficult questions about reading graphic novels as literature.
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Broken Pencil.Provides information on underground culture and the independent arts.
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Comics Grid : Journal of Comics ScholarshipFounded in 2010, this is a researcher-led, open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal. The journal aims to publish original and specialised contributions to the field of comics scholarship from multidisciplinary and media-specific perspectives.
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ImageTextAims to advance the academic study of an emerging and diverse canon of imagetexts. Chief among these are comic books, comic strips, and animations, but also represented are illustrated fiction, children’s picture books, digital-concrete poetic forms, visual rhetoric, etc. Any work or works, tradition, school of thought, or critical method that foregrounds the intersections, interrelations, and disjunctions between text and image is discussed and debated. Under the guidance of an editorial board of scholars from a variety of disciplines, ImageTexT publishes solicited and peer-reviewed papers that investigate the material, historical, theoretical, and cultural implications of visual textuality.
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Inks : Journal of the Comics Studies SocietyFeatures scholarly research on sequential art, graphic narrative, and cartooning. The journal seeks to bring together scholarly essays, archival materials, and insights and discoveries from leading comics professionals. Inks highlights scholarship from a variety of disciplines and invites essays on all periods of comic history, as well as considering an international comics focus.
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Journal of Graphic Novels & ComicsCovers all aspects of the graphic novel, comic strip and comic book focussing primarily, but not exclusively, on the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries. The emphasis is on the production and consumption of comics in their cultural, institutional and creative contexts. The journal aims to reflect not only standard forms such as the superhero and other genres of the comic book, but also the increasing interest in modern forms and emerging genres of the comic, for instance, medicine, psychology, and autobiography.
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SANE journal: Sequential Art Narrative in EducationPublishes research and practitioner-based articles covering all intersections of comics and education, from pre-k to post-secondary studies, from a variety of disciplines.
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Studies in ComicsAims to describe the nature of comics, to identify the medium as a distinct art form, and to address the medium's formal properties. This journal is international in scope and provides an inclusive space in which researchers from all backgrounds can present new thinking on comics to a global audience. The journal will promote the close analysis of the comics page/text using a variety of methodologies. Its specific goal, however, is to expand the relationship between comics and theory and to articulate a "theory of comics". The journal also includes reviews of new comics, criticism, and exhibitions, and a dedicated online space for cutting-edge and emergent creative work.
Pedagogies in Practice collection
Find picture books by searching the Library Collection or browsing the shelves at 823 in the Pedagogies in Practice Collection (Magill and Mawson Lakes Library).
Search tips
- If you know the exact title type it into the search box and select the title option e.g. A bus called heaven
- Find an author / illustrator by typing their name into the search box and selecing the author option
e.g. Shaun Tan - Try the following subject searches to find picture books in the collection: juvenile fiction or picture books
Picture books: Creating
FIVE ways to work as a children's illustrator:
PICTURE BOOK BASICS #1 by Anoosha Syed
Anoosha Syed's, a professional children's book author/illustrator, series called PICTURE BOOK BASICS. For anyone interested in a career in picturebooks, Anoosha covers the steps you need to know.
Video Length: 10 min 37 sec
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Elizabeth HoneyA seven part practical series by Australian children’s author-illustrator, Elizabeth Honey, which looks at the planning stages of producing a picture book for children.
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My First StorybookMy Storybook helps writers of all ages publish a storybook with writing, illustrations, and characters.
Local and International Awards
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CBCA Book of the Year Awards Picture Book of the YearChildren's Book Council of Australia presents annual awards to Australian books of literary merit for outstanding contribution to Australian children’s literature.
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Caldecott Medal & Honor BooksNamed in honour of the 19th century English illustrator, this award is given to the artist who had created the most distinguished picture book of the year in the US. See all award winners and honour books from 1938-present. Awarded by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of ALA.
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Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver AwardEstablished in 1985 after the passing of one of Canada’s pre-eminent book illustrators - Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver, it is awarded by a committee from the Canadian section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY).
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Hans Christian Andersen AwardsThis award is the highest international recognition to authors and illustrators of children's books. It is awarded by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) and is given to authors and illustrators whose works have made a lasting contribution to children's literature.
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Marilyn Baillie Picture Book AwardEstablished in 2006, the award honours excellence in the illustrated picture book format. See previous winners and find out more about the award. Awarded by the Canadian Children's Book Centre (CCBC).
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Comic Arts Awards of AustraliaFormerly known as the LEDGER AWARDS, the Awards have been organised to acknowledge excellence in Australian comic art and publishing. The awards were first held in 2005-2007. After a hiatus, they returned in 2014 with a new structure. The Comic Arts Awards of Australia are a fully independent initiative. It is non-profit and has no affiliations or links with organisations, businesses or other parties outside of sponsorship.
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Eisner AwardsThe Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards are considered the “Oscars” of the comics world. Named for the pioneering comics creator and graphic novelist Will Eisner, the awards are given out in over 30 categories during a ceremony each year at Comic-Con International: San Diego.
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Ignatz AwardsNamed for the character in the classic comic strip Krazy Kat by George Herriman, the Award is the festival prize of the Small Press Expo. Since 1997, the Ignatz Awards have recognised outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning.
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Harvey AwardsRecognising outstanding achievement in multiple categories, the Harvey Awards have been a fixture of the comic industry since 1988. Spotlighting comic books, graphic novels, manga and more, the industry awards are selected by a full body of comic and publishing professionals. The Awards shine a spotlight on the best & brightest, helping new readers, current fans, booksellers, retailers and librarians distinguish the best comics of the year as voted on by their peers.
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Aurealis Awards (Illustrated Book / Graphic Novel category)Established in 1995 by Chimaera Publications (the publishers of Aurealis magazine), the Awards recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror writers.
Picture Book Resources
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Crossover Picturebooks: A Genre for All Ages
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This book situates the picture book genre within the widespread international phenomenon of crossover literature, examining an international corpus of picture books - including artists' books, wordless picture books, and celebrity picture books - that appeal to readers of all ages. Focussing on contemporary picture books, this book shows that the picture book has traditionally been seen as a children's genre, but in the eyes of many industry professionals, it is a narrative form that can address any and all age groups. -
A multimodal approach to challenging gender stereotypes in children's picture books
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This collection offers a thorough treatment of the ways in which the verbal and visual semiotic modes interrelate toward promoting gender equality and social inclusion in children's picture books. -
Thinking through stories : children, philosophy, and picture books
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This book provides justification and instruction for exploring philosophy with children, especially by using picture books to initiate philosophical discussion. By demonstrating to educators that picture books often embed philosophical issues into their narratives, and that this makes picture books a natural place to go to help young children investigate these issues, the author offers a straightforward approach to engaging young students. -
Translating Picturebooks: Revoicing the Verbal, the Visual, and the Aural for a Child Audience
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The book draws on a wide range of picture books published and translated in a number of languages to demonstrate the myriad ways in which information and meaning is conveyed in the translation of multimodal material and the impact of these interactions on the readers’ experiences of these books.
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National Centre for Australian Children's Literature: Picture books for older readersSome picture books selected for this database are sophisticated and deal with complex issues. NCACL recommends users check the subject headings, annotations and curriculum links of individual books to determine their suitability for young readers.
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Children's Picture Book Database at Miami UniversityA collection of picture book abstracts searchable by topics, concepts, and skills for building content area literacy across all academic subjects. The collection contains abstracts of over 5900 picture books for children, preschool to grade three. Search over 1300 keywords (topics, concepts, and skills) to locate books with storylines adaptable to your curriculum or program. The Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University is also a useful collection for English Language Learners and adult literacy programs.
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Diverse BookfinderDiversebookfinder.org aspires to be a go-to resource for librarians, educators, parents, book creators, and publishers who seek to create collections in which all children and young adults can see themselves — and each other — reflected in the books they read.