A Screenplay is not a Comic Script – UPDATED
I think you’d be hard pressed to find some work of fiction, some type of writing, that you could NOT turn into a comic. That is to say, you could […]
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Hiring Good Comic Artists with Less Money
Over at Story to Script I’ve got an article that breaks down the economics of comic production. In it, one of the things I touch on is the problem nearly […]
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 […]
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 Ultimate Fight Scene, but that article covered so much material, I decided to chop this useful bit out and post to the free blog […]
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 […]
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 […]