My Recommended Reading List for Comic Book Writers

[weit]

nolan said:

weit said:

I However, I think I may disagree with you a bit regarding your "art as a compliment to the dialogue and story" aspect. I don't think that the art could be separated from the other story elements adn its vital that one look at the art as being as much a part of the story as the dialogue or other elements. And I think thats something that far too many beginning comic writers fail to understand.

oh don't get me wrong i completely agree with this and is something I practice myself but what I said I meant art and writing work together as one rather than one being more important than the other, sorry if what I said didn't come across more clearly.

And as for reading scripts of course they are useful because your artist has to understand it after all ;D but from all the scripts you read and learned from it all comes down to the best and most comfortable way for you as a writer to write your script to communicate to your artist (maybe a few of your peers will read it too). Again at the end of the day the final product is what everyone is going to read is the comic book itself so reading scripts isn't the only thing a comic writer has to learn.

But I am being very biased here because I am a Writer/Artist who doesn't do written scripts at all so is more about perception i guess

[nolan]

I think its kind of silly to write your best poetic prose in a script most people won't read.

But its important to learn as much as you can about comic storytelling before you start trying scripts.