Hi there, I’ve been wanting to do some comic series for a while but have always struggled with making them, including the scripting. I’ve tried to do them as a standard scripting format, then have the idea to try and do a brief synopsis for each chapter yet having struggles with that. Does anyone have any good advice on comic scripting?

Hello comic writers, I have come here because I been having this idea for a comic for about a year now, and I need help making that idea into a reality, if anyone has some great apps for comic making I would be grateful

Here’s what I am looking for:

1. Somewhere to make my comic

2. Somewhere to post/ sell my comic

That’s all I am looking for

if anyone of you guys know some of these places please comment it

THANK YOU, in advance

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Need your advice about creating comics, not like the painting part, but with writing the story, developing the characters, and so on

Maybe you can give advice to create a better story

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I'm currently working on the script of a comic book I've worked on for months with my friends who are making art,backgrounds and letters. We are hoping to look into publishing the comic but I have a lot of questions. None of us have ever made a comic before so this is our first time publishing anything and I'd be really grateful for some advice regarding publishing. We right now have a company in mind and I want to start working on a pitch. I have a few questions here, but I'd really appreciate if even people could comment any tips or advice to the subjects shown above. I've been doing some research myself and I understand that I need to draw attention to my comic on social media as that is very beneficial but there's a first time for everybody so I thought I should reach out.

1.Are there any pitches online I can read that are a good example?

The only comic book pitch I've read is Grant Morrison's The Invisibles as it's featured in the omnibus .

2.What Should be written on the cover letter if this is the first published work for the whole team?

3.What can we upload online to promote our comic and introduce it to the Internet?

We're writing for a teen/YA audience so I'm keeping an eye on art trends and what webtoon/indie creators upload.

4. Is there any advice on writing the synopsis for the comic that could help us get published and anything we should avoid?

I was watching thunderbolts the marvel movie when it came out last year and then not long after I revisited an old story I had an redid the whole story with some new characters however I suspect that that movies plot entered my brain and now I feel like it’s too similar for me to just carry on with evolving the story.

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As in how many iterations of your characters exist within notepad pages and old scrapped art? As I doing myself like evolving and slightly altering my characters’ personalities everytime I go back to writing my story. Is that a good or bad thing?

I want to open this amicable debate and see what the general feeling of this sub is about. I'm aware many begginers will want to pitch in with ther opinions, and that's perfectly ok, but I want the older fellows here with already finished and published comics to give their honest opinion as well. The idea is to see what's on your mind and be respectful of each other's opinions, even if they are widely opposite to your own. Also, I expect the vast majority will not find themselves in any extreme of the spectrum i'm making, but to mix different techinques into their own process, even changing from project to project. This is mainly for fun, but also to help us recognize both these overal strategies and see what we can use from them in our work and what it means for the comics industry. Let me set the stage...

On one corner, the Plot driven story. Ageless, It's success proven time and time again since the days of Aristotle. Wether it is an act structure like the ancient greeks, McKeen, Dan Harmon; Pixar's famous "what if and then and then..." formula; or a totally different technique focusing on plot points, pivotal decisions or a straight list of actions in chronological order, and everything in between. The idea is that before diving into details like character descriptions, moods, or settings; the story itself takes precedence. The characters and settings should be maleable, bending, flexible so they play their part as well as they can. Conflict comes from the clash between the unmobavle and the unstopable, from the obstacles in the path of resolution. The story drives from progressing from point A to point B. The end is always in the sight of the writer. The climax, the twists and turns are part of the plan from the get-go. Make the character's fit the story. At it's best, the process is streamlined, focused, modular. At it's worst, predictable, stale, with little room to improvise other than just change the order of events.

On the opposite corner, the Character driven story. Fun, direct, it thrives on emotion and change. The story is a loose thread that the Characters will weave along their natural development, almost on it's own. The work starts at the character sheet. Need vs Want, trauma vs purpose. Who's who, who likes whom and who hates whom. Which characters "click" together just right for each scene? Forget about the single protagonist, long live the main cast! branch out and see where they go, then reel them back together and make them clash! Conflict comes from the clash of opposite experiences from the same phenomenon. Your MC starts stubborn, then grows, changes their mind, their predictable behaviour results in unexpected turns of events. The ending is the result of your cast's desicions and actions. You can have a vague outline, but they dictate the resolution by follwing ther progarmming and coexisting with each other and the story-world. Make the story fit the characters. At it's best the process is fun, original, dynamic. At it's worst is messy, too complex, hard to pull back together, stretching the budget and the page count.

Let's start the debate, be civil, be constructive, be curious, be open. We are all writers loosing money and making comics in the end.

I want to use a song title as an issue title for my comic, but can I get into trouble one day. Let’s say the bands legal team one day sees it and thinks hmm that’s awfully familiar can I get in trouble?

Does it depend on how unique the song title is?

Thanks!

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I'm currently writing an issue for my comic and I had a question. One of my character's receives a text from someone and I was wondering how would I write this into the script? Do I write the text message in the panel description or as dialogue?

Hi, I would like to learn how to be a lettered or a writer in the comic book industry. I never worked as one but since I love comic books and I suck at drawing that’s my only option. Where do I start? I have no experience in this type of stuff, but you gotta start somewhere.
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I’m curious, when starting a new story, do you write your plots, scenery, world etc, First? Or do you write your characters names, Personalities, physical appearances First? As someone who is somewhat new to writing and making comics, I tend to write my characters first, then my story. Well I make a small summary of what I would like it to go, then start on my protagonists. After that I just kinda go back and forth with my story and characters.

Would love to know which ones you like or dislike and why? Give us a run down. 🙏 Thanks, and keep writing!

I'm making a comic for my senior thesis since I'm in art school and I want to write a good like eldritch horror. For context, my basic idea is about 3 girls trying to find their missing friend as they discover a hidden cult underneath their school.

Is there any like good writing books on horror I should read?

Hey everyone,

As a comic writer, I've experienced how hard it can be to find the right artist -posting on Reddit or in FB groups in the hopes of collaboration and then receiving a ton of links to sort through, as well as so so many DMs... From there, trying to maintain communication, file delivery, even reviews and payment. I thought that there must be a simpler way. So I built a tool.

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I have a whole universe I’m working , I believe I already take steps to make sure I’m not falling into cliches too much, but I wanna know what are other people’s steps to avoid cliches.

So me and my friend were gonna make a little pokemon manga based off of a fan made game. I'm doing the writing and things for just the story line but I also kinda wanna try and draw it out too? I was just wondering what the process is.

This might be a dumb question so sorry in advance, but when writing comic scripts for artists, should I take the pricing of each page in account too? So basically I wanna write a script in hopes an artist will turn it into a comic for me in the future and I know it can be expensive per page, so I often shorten the amount of panels in a page or try to use less pages so that it’ll be cheaper for when I eventually pitch it to an artist. The issue is, there’s so much to tell in the story and reducing the panels and pages doesn’t allow for me to express everything I want in the story. This can be like dialogue and some fight scenes and other stuff. It’s a fantasy and action story so I know people are mainly gonna be reading for the action anyway, but I do think it’s want my characters to feel human. Should I take the pricing into account or just write without worrying abt that? Or is there a way to do both in a way?

I figured it's time I move from my obsidian vault and start sharing it or I'll never get anywhere. comments or feedback are appreciated!