Here's how Marvel creates their amazing comic books

After going through a comic book's pages, and seeing every incredible detail, it's not uncommon to wonder how the artist did it.

What we don't know is: it actually takes more than one person to create a whole comic book.

According to Marvel Comics editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski, there are actually six people involved in making, detailing, and completing each and every comic book.

"There's the (1) writer, (2) the penciler, (3) the inker, (4) the colorist, (5) the letterer, (6) the editor. Those are the six key people that make one comic, so it's not just one person sitting in the basement doing everything  it's six different people in constant communication," Cebulski said at the recently concluded Marvel Creative Day Out.

He said the first step is for pencilers like Filipino Marvel comic artists Leinil Francis Yu and Harvey Tolibao will make a rough sketch out of the script sent by the writer.

"So first, artists like Leinil and Harvey  will be hired. They'll  take the script that the writer turns in and they'll create what's called a 'lay on'. It's a very simple guide so the editor knows what the  page layouts are gonna be, sometimes it's almost stick figures depending on the artists."

The penciler will then send in his rough sketches to the editor for revisions or approval, and then the editor will send it back to the penciler to add more details such as facial expressions, clothes, background elements, and etc.

"Once the editor approves this, the penciler comes in and puts it in a lot more details, so you'll see the difference what the lay on layouts look like and the actual pencils look like and it's up to the artist to add more details, for example the script took place during the winter but you can't see it here in the layouts."

Cebulski said not everything that's been drawn on the comic is written on the script — some are just creatively added by the artist to make it more thorough.

"The writer can only put so much in the script and sometimes there's great detail plots in scripts and sometimes there's not and it's up to the artist's imagination."

According to Cebulski drawing a page of comic will take the penciler one whole day before sending it to the next person: the inker.

"After the pencils are approved you can see all the details that goes into it, every single window, every single brick, every thing that's drawn, and the artist is asked to do one page of this detail everyday so that's the normal phase for a comic book penciler is one day one page."

The inker will put the black lines and shadows, before the layout is sent to the colorist.

"Next it's given to the inker, the inker goes and and puts a black line over it, the pencils tend to be light and it's hard to color pencils so we hire person called and inker and puts a black line over everything and puts the details adding the shadow, adding blacks, and those becomes the guides of the color. "

The colorist will put more life to the artwork with colors, which is mostly done digitally.

"And then now, 99% of coloring is done in computer or photoshop next a digital colorist will go in and will add all the colors."

Comics is Marvel's heart

Cebulski said their comics are a significant part of the whole Marvel Entertainment, since it is where ideas and characters are born. He said it's the "heart" of the company.

"Comics is still the heart of what Marvel does, it's where so many of the ideas were born and are spread out in the different lines of business."

He compared Marvel's different lines of businesses to a human body.

"The studios are our face, it's what people see first, it's kind who they interact with most, the arms are like our TV division and our animation games division, they help the body along, consumer products and new media are the legs because that's what really carries Marvel along but at the  Heart it's Marvel comics that keeps blood pumping through our system." — LA, GMA News