Archive for the ‘The Comics Panel’ Category

Why Crowdfund?

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by Madeleine Holly-Rosing Though crowdfunding may seem intimidating to the first-timer, it is a viable alternative to direct sales, increasing your fanbase and sharing something unique to the world: your story. In this article, I will highlight some key elements of a successful campaign.  What is crowdfunding? In short, it’s presenting your creative project to […]

Book Marketing: Comics vs. Novels

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by Russell Nohelty I’ve been working in both book publishing and comic publishing for close to 15 years at this point through my work as publisher of Wannabe Press and editor of the Cthulhu is Hard to Spell comics anthology series. While there is some overlap in marketing strategies between them, they’re remarkably different to […]

How to Pitch to a Comic Book Publisher

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by  Kristen Simon Every comic book publisher has different preferences for receiving pitches. Some may not accept pitches at all, as they want to avoid the risk of copyright issues if a submission resembles a storyline they plan to publish.  That said, checking a publisher’s website for guidelines is your starting point. Conduct your due […]

Breaking Down a Sequential Page: A Close Reading for Comics Writers

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by A. A. Rubin Comic books and graphic novels are unique among storytelling mediums. While it shares characteristics with both prose and screenwriting, how the words and art interact on the page gives comics their own set of techniques. It is important for writers to understand how a finished comics page works to take full […]

Connecting with an Artist Is a Big Part of the Storytelling in Comics

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by Jessica Maison If only there was an app for creator hook-ups, writers would all find the perfect artists and live happily ever after creating amazing comics. That’s how these apps are designed to work. Realistically, a writer would get too many swipe-rights from the wrong ones and a bunch of awkward DMs, leaving their […]

How to Write a Comic Script

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by Tim Susman The first time I tried to write a comic book script, I had no guidance about what a script looked like, but I’d read comic books and graphic novels. So I wrote up my idea for a four-to-five-page story and sent it to the editor. He sent it back with a gentle […]

Conjuring Images when Writing for Comics, Prose, and the Screen

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by Jessica Maison A writer conjures images for their readers, whether writing prose, film, or comics. Comics writing has a set of best practices that share similarities and differences with screenwriting and prose writing. Most successful stories told in any medium must establish a dynamic world and protagonist while presenting an enticing inciting incident, climax, […]