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How to write a comic book that another person will draw. Watch out, Bendis!
Steps
- Come up with an idea that you think will be fun and exciting to explore for at least 22 pages. Your story can be shorter or longer, but a good length for most stories is 22 pages.
- Create several timelines: one for what should be shown to the reader in the story, what action needs to occur, where character development will go, etc. Other timelines will need to be made for each character, so you know what their life has been so far, where it is going, etc.
- Divide a blank page into panels for your story. Keep in mind pacing, so if your main character has just discovered the bones of a monster in her backyard, the reader gets to have a nice big picture to look at and take their time viewing.
- Using your timelines as a guide, fill in the panels with either descriptions or sketches of what action should be seen, and what dialogue should be heard. Remember that dialogue is actually SEEN in a comic book, so try not to jam too many words into a single panel.
- Write until your story is told! You can then take this basic sketch/outline to your artist, or type up a more professional script, allowing the artist to have some creative input into the work.
Warnings
- Don't forget, PAGE 1 will face the inside front cover, so don't have a 2-page splash until page 2. Likewise, page 22 will face the inside back cover. Try to make your 2-page splashes start on an even numbered page.
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