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Filth & Grammar The Comic Book Editor's Secret Handbook TPBFILTH & GRAMMAR is Shelly Bond's 176 page magnum opus, a step by step guide to making comic books from cover to cover with artists IMOGEN MANGLE, LAURA HOLE & MARK BUCKINGHAM. It's the first time Bond reveals the alchemy and method to her editorial madness. And it's the first comic book "how to" by a comic book editor. Editor Idea Generator, Mad Scientist, and Master Control at DC Comics Vertigo for over 20 years. Editor of Hugo and Eisner Award

FILTH & GRAMMAR is Shelly Bond's 176-page magnum opus, a step-by-step guide to making comic books from cover to cover with artists IMOGEN MANGLE, LAURA HOLE & MARK BUCKINGHAM. It's the first time Bond reveals the alchemy and method to her editorial madness. And it's the first comic book "how-to" by a comic book editor.

Editor/Idea Generator, Mad Scientist, and Master Control at DC Comics/Vertigo for over 20 years. Editor of Hugo and Eisner Award-winners The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman & JH Williams III and Fables by Bill Willingham, recipient of 14 Eisner Awards and 150 consecutive issues. Current editor of Bitter Root, by David F. Walker, Chuck Brown and Sanford Greene, winner of the 2020 and 2021 Eisner Awards for best continuing series. 

Before they were hit TV series, BODIES (on Netflix) by Si Spencer, iZOMBIE by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred and LUCIFER by Mike Carey and Peter Gross were comics under Shelly Bond's imprimatur.

Whether you're interested in an editorial career, want to level up your writing or art game, or just be a more discerning comics reader, FILTH & GRAMMAR: THE COMIC BOOK EDITOR'S SECRET HANDBOOK gives you the insider info you need to:

+ improve your storytelling skills!

+ understand the collaborative roles integral to making comics!

+ prepare your portfolio for future assignments!

+ set and maintain schedules for long and short-term goals!

+ nail deadlines!

+ learn when to call a page a finished page!

176 PAGES! 10 CHAPTERS THAT INCLUDE: 

+ 10-14 pages on each stage of making comics!

+ clearly illustrated examples!

+ pet peeves!

+ dos & don’ts!

+ pro tips from industry legends, including MARK BUCKINGHAM, PETER MILLIGAN,  CHRIS BACHALO, MICHAEL & LAURA ALLRED, PETER GROSS, MIKE CAREY,  DAVID F. WALKER,  JIM RUGG, CECIL CASTELLUCCI, GLYN DILLON, NEIL GAIMAN, DUNCAN FEGREDO,  and more!

+ short comics detailing first encounters and secret histories of working with pop culture provocateurs (see above!)

And the pièce de résistance... a cover by our own PHILIP BOND!

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