We’ve done quite a few articles on how to write comic books and I thought it might be cool to spotlight our top 5 posts on the subject. So without further ado.
#1.Comic Book Writing: Stephen King’s 7 Writing Tips
Don’t waste your reader’s time with too much back-story, long intros or longer anecdotes about your life. Reduce the noise. Reduce the babbling. In On Writing King gets to his points quickly. Get to your point quickly too before your reader loses patience and moves on.
#2. Top 10 Writing Tips for Comic Book Writers
As any writer knows, poor pacing can kill your book. You need to start it of with a bang, and then stick with the highs and lows that keep the audience reading, and then end with a cliffhanger. Transitions are what keep the audience from noticing that that’s what is happening.
#3. How To Write Comics with Style
It may be that you, too, are capable of making necklaces for Cleopatra, so to speak. But your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out.
#4. Advice: Breaking into Comic Book Writing
First, don’t even THINK about quitting your day job. Writers I know who’ve worked in comics and Hollywood have told me it was a lot easier to sell their first tv or film script than their first comic script.
#5. How to Format a Comic Book Script
This is a very, very simple formatting breakdown, but I think it points you in the right direction. Formatting a comic book script isn’t really all that hard, the key is to be clear in your vision. You are writing something that an artist (whom you may have never met) has to illustrate.
What is the art accompanying the article? It’s beautifully rendered.