How to Work With an Editor
Someone asked about the comic editing process, specifically; “How do you work with an editor?” “What does it cost and how can I tell if I’m getting ripped off?” “Will […]
Author: Nick
Dialogue During Action
From the Writer’s Guide; “Strenuous activity (i.e. action) is not conductive to conversation. Dialogue during action sequences can quickly become campy and/or preachy.” When scripting important key fights, dialogue can […]
Panel Descriptions
Though I talk about Loose vs. Tight scripting on page 17 of the Working Writer’s Guide to Comics and Graphic Novels, I decided to make a fancy graph and continue […]
Effective Prologues
I think everyone is familiar with a prologue in long prose; in comics (or screenplays) a prologue arrives as a scene, or in comics (or animated series script), an entire […]
Don’t Use Captions as a Crutch
This also could have been titled, “Newer Comic Writers, Don’t use Captions.” While I’ve spoken to captions elsewhere and they are certainly a viable technique in comics, more often than […]
Combat Micro-Scenes
(This was originally part of the Pro Class article on fight scenes, but that article covered so much material I decided to chop this useful bit out and post to […]
The Ultimate Fight Scene
In Fight Scenes that Resonate I break down a half-dozen basic considerations for scripting effective fight scenes. Welcome to the Pro class where we go “a bit” further and break […]
Master Theme, Secondary Themes and Character Arcs
In the article More on Master Theme, I talk about the necessity of running a Master Theme in your story and some of the common mistakes working with secondary themes. […]
10 Core Rules to Writing Comics
Here are the first 12 pages of the Working Writer’s Guide to Comics and Graphic Novels. They cover the 10 core rules for scripting comics. Enjoy. 10 Rules to Writing […]
The Best Way to Name
I go over the importance of nomenclature in Storycraft for comics, breaking down a bunch of aspects of it, but I wanted to touch on another specific technique. One of […]