The dean of science comics, Jim Ottaviani has here teamed up with comics artist and aquarium-based educator, Maris Wicks – who had a small hit here at Copacetic with Yes, Let's, originally published by our pals at Tugboat Press in Portland, OR – to produce this full-length, full color, hardcover work that takes a long comics look at "the fearless science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. Recruited by the great anthropologist Louis Leakey these remarkable women are responsbile for some of the biggest advances in both primatology and our understanding of what it means to be human."
Edited/curated by Shelly Bond, this book never really got noticed, but it has something to offer both casual readers, and comic book students and makers. It contains over 100 one-page "how-to" comics, all produced using the nine-panel grid. So simultaneously offers insturction in the one hundred plus chosen topics, and then, taken togetehr, offer a nice survey of approaches to instructional comics making by a wide range of comics makers – including some of the best. Introductory essay by Kelly Sue DeConnick.
Here's Black Crown's hype-up:
"What do you want to learn about? Take your pick in this anthology combining the unprecedented approach of a “how to” book with the diverse subject matter from over 100 contributors sharing their hidden talents via one-page, nine-panel comics! Includes entries from a variety of comics talent including Michael Allred, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Becky Cloonan, Sanford Greene, Paul Pope, Gail Simone, Gene Ha, Box Brown, Gilbert Hernandez, Leah Moore, Chynna Clugston Flores, and more. Each story is part personal “how to,” part “how-so.” Learn new skills or hone the ones you’ve got. One-pagers will illuminate aspects of the comic book storytelling process like drawing likenesses, lettering, and cropping art panels."
