10 steps to making your own mini comic book

Have you ever wanted to make your own comic book? Well, this post will teach you how to make a little comic book, just a bit bigger than a credit card. The comic book should turn out to be 16 pages long, including the front and back cover. Hope you enjoy!

1. Write a story that can be told on twelve to fourteen mini-comic book pages.

2. Sketch, draw, ink, and then letter all sixteen minipages - which include the front and back covers.

3. Paste eight of the minipage drawings into their correct positions on a piece of paper to make "master copy one" - a sheet that can be copied again and again.

4. Paste up the other eight images to make "master copy two".

5. Using a copier, print the images from "master copy one" onto one side of a "press sheet" -  a piece of regular letter-size paper.

6. Print "master copy two" onto the flip side of the press sheet - making eight page images on the front, and eight on the back.

7. Carefully fold the press sheet with the sixteen copied minipages on it.

8. Put in two staples along the crease at the very center of the little book - between pages 8 and 9.

9. Trim the three unstapled edges - and that makes one finished mini-comic book.

10. Repeat steps 5-9 to make another copy.

Note: These steps were copied from "Lunch Money", by Andrew Clements.