Better Characterization
This lands on my desk, all the time… Jane What do you mean you’re leaving for six months? What about work? What about us? Marco I don’t have a […]
Technique
Effective Full Page Art
Most of the comic stories that hit my desk these days are more involved than lots of the serial stuff we grew up on. To an extent, this is the […]
RIP We See
Let’s talk screenplays for a moment. (I don’t often talk screenplay land stuff on my websites, simply because there’s no money in spec work, but this topic covers any form […]
Forced Character Goals Kill Narratives
Man, I gotta go back and rewatch this movie, Blood Vessel. It should have been much better than it was. Whenever I experience this, my writer brain always asks, “why?” […]
Stop Storyboarding Your Scripts
When I first started in comics I storyboarded every single page. In fact, I couldn’t even imagine NOT storyboarding my comic book scripts. At the time, I would have been […]
Standard Format Documents
I mention the standard manuscript format elsewhere… 12 Pt Ugly Ass Courier, DOUBLE spaced (or 24pt leading). I thought this would be a quick, fun article to see WHY it’s […]
Barren Dialogue
I often call people out on writing “On the Nose” dialogue; dialogue without any subtext… dialogue that says exactly what it means. On the Nose dialogue rarely engages reader and […]
A Screenplay is not a Comic Script
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]