Short Comics (6-8 pagers) Recommendations/Tutorials
I'm looking to start off by writing short comics (6-8ish pages), but am looking for good examples to dissect/reverse-engineer. And/or any decent how-to books on short story writing (prose or comics). Any recommendations? And I'll say that I'm leaning towards done-in-one stories that don't require the reader to know the character beforehand.
I have some EC/Warren anthologies on my shelves, and some Spirits. Any other recommendations?
I have some EC/Warren anthologies on my shelves, and some Spirits. Any other recommendations?
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Writers on Comics Scriptwriting Vols. 1 and 2
Artists on Comics Art
My comics ONE LAST THING and DAILY GRIND, short pieces that have the scripts in the back
The QUEEN AND COUNTRY scriptbook
The DEMO scriptbook
Any of a number of comics scripts are available online.
Turns out I've already got almost all of the books Russell mentioned (just the DC one is missing I think...). I'd forgotten about the 2000AD Future Shocks/Time Twisters, so I dug out my Alan Moore trades of those. I agree with Josh about just taking in short fiction in all mediums, so I'm dusting off my Twilight Zones and the like. I'll check out the rest of the stuff mentioned. One thing I also ran across that I had and hadn't thought of was McCloud's MAKING COMICS, which is probably more artist-driven than writer-driven but seems to be pretty informative about what thinking should go INTO the comic (whether drawn by you or someone else).
This is all helpful!