The unedited version was double the published size. This size is without the Harlan Ellison introduction and the special Jim Steranko section (not included here).

Chapter 1: Words & Pictures

Chapter 2: Set-to-Set

Chapter 3: Panel-to-Panel

Chapter 4: Scene-to-Scene

Chapter 5: Level-to-Level

Chapter 6: The Drawing Board

Chapter 7: The Camera in the Mind's Eye

Chapter 8: Mood & Lighting

Chapter 9: Timing and Pace

Chapter 10: Visual Design Rules

Chapter 11: Visual Art

Chapter 12: Working from a Script

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About the Author

Tony C. Caputo has written several non-fiction instructional books including Visual Storytelling: The Art and Technique (Watson-Guptill 2002), Build Your Own Server (McGraw-Hill 2003), the best-seller Digital Video Surveillance and Security (Elsevier 2010) and How to Self-Publish Your Own Comic Book (Watson-Guptill 1997). Although Caputo is no longer within the entertainment field, having pursued a better career in technology in 1994, he also assisted Jim Banister in 2000 on the development of his ground-breaking networked media (now called social media) book Word of Mouse (Agate 2005).

In his youth, he published, and wrote such well-known titles as Speed Racer™, Astro Boy™, The Terminator™, The Real Ghostbusters™, Twilight Zone™, and The Green Hornet™. From 1989 to 1994, he served on the board of directors of the Comics Magazine Association of America (CMAA), a sixty year old organization for the betterment of visual storytelling in print. and has worked as a publishing consultant for a variety of companies, including Disney Publications. He also produced over 20 volumes of Speed Racer home videos and gift sets, and has created his own graphic novel series entitled Vesper's.

More on what he's been doing since leaving the entertainment industry behind at tonyccaputo.com