A new course of material to accompany First Second\'s widely acclaimed 2008 comics textbook. School of Visual Arts cartooning professors Matt Madden and Jessica Abel bring their expertise to bear on the \'second semester\' of a course of study for the budding cartoonist. Covering advanced topics such as story composition, coloring, and file formatting, Mastering Comics is a vital companion to the introductory content of Drawing Words and Writing Pictures. (W/A) Jessica Abel, Matt Madden