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I have a challenge for aspiring professional comic book writers:
Write a script without any narrative captions at all. No running monologue. Nothing beyond location captions.
Captions are often a crutch for inexperienced comic writers that lets you pretend you're writing prose.
Write a script without any narrative captions at all. No running monologue. Nothing beyond location captions.
Captions are often a crutch for inexperienced comic writers that lets you pretend you're writing prose.
Neil Gaiman can do whatever he wants. You aren't Neil Gaiman.
Focus on developing your skills in VISUAL STORYTELLING rather than yammering at the reader.
Focus on developing your skills in VISUAL STORYTELLING rather than yammering at the reader.
Writing comics is not writing prose. It's a completely different medium with completely different best practices that you have to know how to follow before you break them.
Go read early Claremont Uncanny X-Men and then read him five years in.
Go read early Claremont Uncanny X-Men and then read him five years in.
He goes from telling you whats happening in crowded, wordy captions to pulling back and letting the page do the work. The end result is a much more inventive interesting experience.
Once you know how to do that, narrative captions become a *tool* rather than a crutch, wielded as necessary and used to elevate, not explain, the action on the page.
