Making Your First Comic

Make the comic you keep thinking about.

I wrote this 200+ page guide to help you write a comic script, find an artist and get your first comic made.

Making Your First Comic – Complete Guide (Digital Download)

Winner — 2026 Ringo Award

Best Comics-Related Publication

Making Your First Comic by Matt Garvey

Digital PDF

Learn to make comics with a Ringo Award-winning guide.

£6.99

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What’s in the guide Read original comics

Ever wanted to write your own comic?

Writing Your First Comic: The Online Course

I’ve taken the writing advice behind Making Your First Comic and turned it into an online course.

I’ll show you how to take that idea you’ve had knocking around in your head and turn it into a comic script. There are videos, assignments and downloadable resources, and you can work through them in your own time.

Making comics should be fun. That’s the whole point.

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What I’ve learned from making comics.

Writing a script is only part of it. You’ll also be working with artists, making decisions about printing and finding readers.

Does the idea work as a comic?

A good idea needs a story around it. I’ll show you how to shape yours and get it into a comic script.

How do you work with an artist?

I write the comics, but I don’t make them on my own. The guide covers finding artists, explaining what you need and planning the work together.

What happens when it’s finished?

Printing, publishing and finding readers need thought too. I cover those parts because writing the script is only one part of getting a comic made.

“This book belongs on the shelf of every aspiring comic creator… right next to Understanding Comics.”

Matthew Dow Smith

Doctor Who · Justice League Unlimited · Batman: The Brave and the Bold

Hi, I’m Matt. I make comics.

I’m a comic writer and publisher from the UK. Over about 16 years, I’ve written more than 30 issues, worked with some brilliant artists and taken my comics to conventions. The guides grew out of all the things I had to learn along the way.

A bit more about me

Want to make comics?

I put what I’ve learned into these books.

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Making Your First Comic covers making the book. Kickstarting Your First Comic covers funding it. Both come as PDFs or printed books.

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Kickstarting Your First Comic

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Making Your First Comic

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Kickstarting Your First Comic

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