[...] its many spinoffs. But I’d never heard of him creating any actual comics until now. (More on that concern here.) [...]

I’m a terrible artist, I can’t make a clear circle or a straight line, much less full figures or what have you.

One book I am sort of curious about is the DC guide to coloring and lettering. I’d just like to see the procees behind those two jobs.

The same for Buscema’s Drawing Comics the Marvel Way.

On the other hand, I agree that sitting down to the keyboard/picking up the pencil has a lot going for it to as a way to learn.

Maybe I’ll try that some day…

There’s no better way to learn than to do.

[...] Draper Carlson muses on the usefulness of how-to-draw-manga [...]

I didn’t mean “copying” as such, though, as much as approaching things from a forensic standpoint. Taking things apart to see how they work (to paraphrase somebody else).

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Even though I in no way think my instruction is on a par with Scott McCloud’s, look at his work: do you really think you can learn that just by looking at comics.

And there is a HUGE difference, for example, in copying how an artist draws hands, and being taught a way to draw them that demystifies them and works nearly every time.

…in a funny way, people like that don’t HAVE to write special How-To books, do they? The work itself stands as the exemplar. You pick the thing apart to see how it works.

I’m rambling, now.

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