We’ll start with a tweet I saw yesterday, from cr8dv8 a.k.a. Terry: Gah, I wish someone had mentioned this in advance. I don’t think I can do do #NaGraNoWriMo this month. Maybe but I doubt it. I sent a brief note trying to get Terry to go for it anyway, which got this reply: It’s…
So we’re already getting questions in (and if you have questions, post them in a comments thread or use the feedfack form for privacy) and the most immediate one is– why 48 pages? Why not 50, or 45, or whatever length seems appropriate for the story? If a picture is worth a thousand words, and…
Are you in for National Graphic Novel Writing Month? We hope so. And because we’re generous people, we thought we’d give you some reading material to help you start on your masterpiece. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud Reinventing Comics:…
Five hundred dollars. When people talk about putting regular, old-fashioned comic books online, keep that $500 in mind. That’s about how much it costs for an average page of comic book art, in terms of labor. Figure $100 for the writer, $150 for the penciller, $130 for the inker, $90 for the colorist, and $30…
Creator/producer Russell T Davies has started serious work on fourth season of Torchwood. Right now, that means doing his writing bit – and gathering the other writers for the 10-episode season. His team lacks nothing in heroic fantasy street cred. According to the Chicago Tribune’s Maureen Ryan, joining Davies and returning Torchwood writer John Fay…
Every single person who reads something I’ve written, including these essays, has a right to their own opinion of it – good, bad, indifferent. That goes with the territory. Sure, it’s nice to hear that the reader loves what I’ve done but I’m a big boy; I can take a brickbat or two. My rules…
It makes my fingers ache when I think about how long it must have taken to transcribe Daniel Whiston’s interview with Alan Moore (Watchmen, V For Vendetta), but it’s well worth a read for anyone interested in the legendary scribe’s approach to the craft of writing. Moore addresses his work on various prominent and a…
If you pay much attention to news about comic books, you know that the industry is seeing a boost in popularity that’s translated into comics becoming an accepted field of study at venerated institutions like Stanford and elsewhere. As comics make the transition into classrooms it only makes sense that a formal textbook would soon…
He’s Marc Guggenheim, and if you didn’t know him from Brothers & Sisters, CSI:Miami or even the “Death Of Bart Allen” storyline in Flash, you may have encountered his current run on Amazing Spider-Man, his new Young X-Men series or even a little show called Eli Stone. So how does he work it all out?…
He’s Marc Guggenheim, and if you didn’t know him from Brothers & Sisters, CSI:Miami or even the “Death Of Bart Allen” storyline in Flash, you may have encountered his current run on Amazing Spider-Man, his new Young X-Men series or even a little show called Eli Stone. So how does he work it all out?…
In his frank and provocative “Writing under the Influence” commentary at ComicMix, John Ostrander speaks of imitation as “the starting point for what you eventually become” as a storyteller: “Nothing is created in a vacuum,” John avers. Writing may often seem the loneliest of professions – and certainly so, if one lacks a reality-check communion…
It stands to reason that if you’re interested in comic books and are here reading this site, you may have some interest in actually making a comic book yourself. If so, Matt Kindt, creator of various comics and graphic novels including Superspy, 2 Sisters and Pistolwhip, has made a video just for you. The…
