Double Page Spreads
Someone who purchased the Working Writer’s Guide to Comics and Graphic Novels had a question about formatting a double page spread. Because comic real estate is generally in such high-demand, […]
Month: March 2017
Real world premises – TIP
When you’re working on real world premises, you can often take some creative license and meld fact with fiction, but you can’t contradict fact with fiction. Important distinction.▪ About the […]
Loose Vs. Thin
If you’ve bee following this site for a while, you probably already know the difference between a “loose” and “tight” comic script. A tight script can essentially touch on any […]
Scene Selection Part 2: Only Your Best
So you’ve read Scene Selection and Narrative Drive and have a good understanding of which scenes stop narrative drive dead in its tracks… You understand that comics are a highlight […]
Cut Your Entrances (and exits) – TIP
I’ve talked about page/scene weights. One of the most superfluous panel setups are CHARACTER ENTRANCES, usually walking in through a door. GET RID OF THESE. Showing a character opening a […]