From the category archives:
Let’s continue breaking down the elements of character.
EMOTION
There are two ways emotion affects character. First, on a fundamental level. I believe most people have a basic emotional“home base”. By that I mean that we all know people who live [click to continue...]
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All right! Let’s get back to the writing workshops.
Now that we are all speaking the same language when it comes to story structure, let’s talk a little about another huge part of the writing process: [click to continue...]
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Here are the final, lettered pages of the Scragg story. When creating this story, I sort of aimed for the mythical idea that this was an early Mad Magazine parody by Harvey Kurtzmanand Wally Wood, of a Conan story drawn by Frank Frazetta, as interpreted by me. [click to continue...]
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Okay, after figuring out the basic beats of my story, I made some loose roughs in my sketchbook. Here they are:
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Next, I’d like to take you through the entire creation of a short comics story, from the writing, to the penciling, and finally to the inking and lettering.
I am part of a small, but plucky, local group of [click to continue...]
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Here’s a breakdown of how my storytelling guidelines apply to a Daffy Duck story I wrote for the Looney Tunes comic.
After I send in the premise lines, [click to continue...]
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I am currently writing for the Looney Tunes comic book at DC. This comic features the classic Warner Brothers cartoon characters, Daffy, Bugs, Porky, and the gang. I’m going to take you through some of the creative process of writing a Looney Tunes story to demonstrate the [click to continue...]
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Which brings me to one of the key elements of comic book endings and genre endings in general.
JUSTICE
We don’t read comics to see the bad guy win in the end. Sure, the [click to continue...]
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Last time we established that every story has a BEGINNING, MIDDLE and END. Let’s go a step further now and break down those headings down into story elements.
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Okay, let’s talk writing! Where do we begin?
Well, firstly, it’s important to understand that comics, (and movies, novels and TV shows), always tell some sort of story. Let’s strip it down to the basics. [click to continue...]
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