The Art of Comic Book Writing
Subtitle: The Definitive Guide to Outlining, Scripting, and Pitching Your Sequential Art Stories
By: Mark Kneece
Edition: First edition.
Series: The SCAD Creative Essentials Series
Published: 2015/09/15
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780770436971
Subjects: Authorship; Comic books, strips
Description: This practical guide to writing comic books covers all the essentials--from crafting an effective outline and formatting a script to composing a winning synopsis when pitching the product to publishers. The author also provides commentary on real-world examples of outlines, scripts, and synopses from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) faculty, alumni, and staff, showing what does and doesn't work.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Story basics : ideas, development, and visualization; title: Formatting a comics script in "full script"; title: The almighty page; title: Talking to the artist and writing the script; title: Script energy : dialogue, text, and visuals; title: Character dynamics; title: World building : props, structures, and attitudes; title: Pacing the story, part 1 : room to breathe; title: Pacing the story, part 2 : breaking the rules; title: Putting together a synopsis for submission.