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 […]
Author: nickmac
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 Ultimate Fight Scene, but that article covered so much material, I decided to chop this useful bit out and post to the free blog […]
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. This file has been […]
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 […]
Famous Writer Scripts Teach Nothing
We live in an age of information overload. If you want a career as a writer, one of the first things you must do, is: Stop Following Bad Advice. I […]
New Writers IGNORE Comictography
In the Working Writer’s Guide to Comics and Graphic novels, Comictography, is the second item, in the list of four essential elements to all comic panels. First and foremost, comictography […]
The Thousand Dollar Page Rate
You’re a medical professional and scientist. Representatives of the Umbrella corporation arrive intent to hire you to implement the latest stem-cell chemotherapy combo technique to a number of people afflicted […]