I know Image is pretty famous for looking for any sort of talent, be it novice or veteran. And I’ve been working on a comic idea for a bit now and since they’re a big name, having the comic published by Image would make more people likely to see it. But how good are they? And just how hard is it to get them to even look at your concept?

I've been working on a comic book project for a while now, and I've run into a bit of a roadblock. I intend to eventually pitch this comic to a professional publisher (I'm not sure which one though), but since it's my first work, I'm going to need to make a portfolio to show off my talent. But that's where the problem is. Because this comic project is the first of its kind I've worked on, I don't have any other comic work I could put in a portfolio.

What should I do?

Hi! does anybody have or know where I can find some of Mike Mignola's Hellboy scripts? I'd like to see how he writes especially on the short story called King Vold. Can anybody help me?

This is my first story, which I have been working on for years. I don't consider myself a skilled writer. I like to draw more.

I am looking for an editor to review the characters and the overall structure of the story.

I have plans to turn this script into a manga-inspired comic book series. The comic script consists of about 5 volumes, but for now I would love for an editor to review the first two volumes of my story. I do plan first to post the chapters online to attract audience.

Some panels description are not flesh out in great details and the reason behind it is I'm still working on sketching the scenes and I wanted to focus on the dialogue first. I also have a fantasy map, few character designs, and a document containing truncated information about the settings, plot, and the characters ( which is still in the works).

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I'm facing some challenges with my writing process lately and was hoping to receive some advice to reignite my passion for writing.

I initially wrote and storyboarded the first draft of my comics (300-400 pages). While it lacked some "side-quests" and consistency, I felt excited by the general flow of events and many of its scenes. I had loads of ideas on how to improve the story, so I almost immediately began on a second draft.

However, about twenty pages into the second draft, I became disheartened by the new direction the story was taking. It didn't feel right. Consequently, I decided to take a break for a couple of months and give it another try. This time, I managed to roughly storyboard the entire first act, only to be further disappointed by the results. While there were a few new good moments, overall, it didn't feel like much of an improvement on the first draft. It was just as messy and even lacked some of the first-try spark.

I've been attempting to clarify my vision and create a better outline, but instead, I'm now even more confused. I've thought of so many possible changes to make that I no longer remember what the story was supposed to be about. It's been over half a year since I last touched it, and by now, the vision feels almost dead.

I often encounter this confusion during the planning and outlining phases, as I come up with countless possible solutions only to end up with more issues and indecisiveness. Taking the Gardner approach to this story was the first time I managed to finish a full first draft. I'm unsure if this story can be salvaged, but without any conclusions or a new plan of action, I can't seem to start on any new project.

Any advice, ideas or anecdotes would be greatly appreciated!

I’ve always enjoyed writing short stories and would like to try and write my first comic, but one thing I know for sure is that I am so terrible at art. I can see it all in my head but any attempt I’ve made to create it ends up looking terrible. So at what stage of it all should I start to look for an artist and where is the best place to find someone? I have my overall story and characters down so far

Hello I've started making my first comic I have about 6 chapters planned out so far does anybody have any advice to stay motivated and coming up with new ideas thank you:)

So i'm preparing to publish my very first comic book and it is stressful af. The illustrator is always nagging me for more money, the publishing date is closing in on us (1.5 months away) and the art is not even fully done yet and he also wants to cut many pages of my book without my consent. Oh, and we didn't even figure out some details about the publishing like how many copies we want etc.

Is it always THIS stressful?! Asking for opinions from veterans.

I'm writing a comic where the main characters are cats (reincarnated gods living as house cats) and I'm unsure of how I want to handle POV. My narrator is the main character. I'm wondering if I should have him narrate action he's not a part of (like he's omniscient), or if I should have the cat the action focused on narrate their part, or if I should leave it with no narration for things he's not a part of. I see pros and cons to all 3 approaches. I'll add that the main character dies in issue 12 but still exists in the afterlife, and I was thinking he'd narrate from there since he'd be in an omniscient role at that point. Any help is appreciated!

I aim to make a web comic (or rather webtoon). While some panels are small, some panels are very large. I know this is a technique to emphasize the importance of the scene. But I don't know how to figure out which scenes I should make and how big. I'm thinking of scenes called "pivotal scenes" that form the outline of the story arc. And of course, there will be "cutscenes" that act as bridges to smoothly connect important scenes. I think there should be two types of scenes like this. But, I don't know of a clear way to decide whether scenes are highlights or cutscenes. If you have an idea that can shed light on me, please share it with me

For example

The main character needs to go to the cafe and there is a scene where he walks to the cafe (this was a bit unnecessary scene, but please bear with it). This can be shown with a small panel, or it can be a throwaway scene

We've had a lot of wonky posts over the last couple of weeks. As a reminder, this subreddit has a specific purpose:

## Comic writers helping other comic writers overcome their creative writing problems.

That's it.

As a courtesy, being a close-knit community, promotions for anything comic related are generally allowed, as long as they are labeled PROMO in the title and follow the promo rules.

(Keep in mind, even if it's comic related, if you blast every subreddit you're a part of with your promo within a few hours, that's considered SPAM.)

If it's not a creative writing question/problem and not a comic related promo, it more than likely doesn't belong here.

This comic writing subreddit is NOT the place to discuss the creation of comics, the marketing of comics, specific comic creators... blah blah blah.

There are a bunch of other subreddits to do that.

Lastly, as a reminder, this subreddit does not allow any kind of critique.

All ideas have merit if executed properly.

The ability to make creative decisions is fundamental to being a writer and writers should take ownership of their own creative choices. If you are unsure about your creative decisions, your material is not ready to be posted or discussed in this subreddit.

Write on, write often!

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Hello!

An example of what I mean in the title is like how Watchmen has newspaper articles, memos, etc. at the end of the chapters. What I'd like to do is include a actual news article at the back of the issue. What would I write that in the script as?

Hi all,

I am writing a mini series, and so far I have written it into a fleshed-out outline. I am now trying to break it down into issues and pages.

There is a point in the story that I am very set on being the end of issue 1, and, breaking it down, issue 1 does need 32 pages to not feel rushed. We meet the characters and need to set things up before we get to the event at the end of the issue.

However, carrying on at the same pace/density, the rest of the issues work better as 24 pages. I can always add a few splash pages and slow things down, but it would feel unnecessary to bloat them to 32pages, and would be bad for the pacing (as well as expensive!).

Would it be sacrilegious to have issue 1 at 32 pages, then issues 2-5 at 24? Are there examples of comics that have done that?

If I have to self publish it I imagine it won’t matter too much, but I don’t want to commit to something at this stage that would completely turn off publishers!

Hello

I am trying to write up to 30 page heist story with gentleman thief. Something like catwoman or black cat type of thief. But I dunno how to make it work. Like do I show preperation or just show the target and let my thief send a calling card and show the heist and complication of the heist. I want to make it one issue has one heist, so that i can keep it somewhat fresh with each new and different location like Lupin the III.

So do you have tips or knowledge how to do it?

I would be thankful for information.

Thank you for reading.

Cheers.

I'm sure many variations of this question have been asked as I've peaked a few already in my short time here, but I didn't reach satisfaction in my search. But I'm just curious if you all wrote out your story completely then transferred it to script form or started all creative assets at the same time with the script. I hope this makes sense.

Edit: Thank you everyone who has contributed so far, this is exactly the info I was looking for.

Hello!

This is probably aimed especially at indie and webcomic writers, as well as anyone who writes about characters they created themselves.

I'm the writer and artist for a comic I've been thinking about for about 3 years, and I love the idea, but I feel like the characters still somewhat escape me. I like them, but I don't love them the way I love character other people made (from mangas, comics, all kinds of stories). And really really liking my own characters feels important, and I want to love them. I want to feel more interested in them! They've already largely got ideas around them, they have backgrounds and rough ideas for how they act, although I've yet to write down a concise script for a chapter, I have a lot of notes.

What am I missing?

Do I need to develop them more?

Any tips on that or on how to fall in love with the characters you're writing in general?

(I apologize if my English is confusing or incorrect at times, it's my second language.)

A lot of people who make comics/manga are artists first, writers second. Anyone feel like if the opportunity arose they would willingly pay a co-writer/editor to boost their project?

I’ve had this idea for a way to write comics for a couple of years now, but the software I would need to do it doesn’t exist. I thought about coding it myself a couple of times but I’m a novice coder at best. Basically, I want to write using a bulleted list or a numbered list. I would like that list to automatically break itself into the number of panels per page. So if I had a format of six panels per page every six numbered point would indicate a new page automatically.

Then the idea of using an excel spreadsheet to do this occurred to me. It’s a little bit hard to explain but basically I’ve set up an excel spreadsheet that allows me to write as if each cell is a panel. I have a formula set up to count the number of words per panel so I can keep track if things are getting too wordy. In the following column I have the option to choose the type of panel that I want for that particular piece of text i.e. the size of it. I then correlate the type of panel to a number, which tells me how many of those panels I can fit per page. I have put in some conditional formatting that highlight where the page breaks are in a rudimentary way.

Now even just this is helpful but the second part that I really want is to be able to translate this into a visual format. By which I mean the text gets transformed into an actual panel so I can get a sense of the pacing if that makes sense. I didn’t think I would be able to do this without some serious coding but then I realised it would probably work if I could translate this into HTML from the spreadsheet. I tried it and it worked. It’s a little bit manual the spreadsheet does generate HTML code which can then copy into a HTML document and open in a browser. It’s rudimentary but it’s pretty close to what I want.

I guess I just wanted to share this really nerdy niche thing with other people that might think that it’s interesting and maybe even want to try out. It wouldn’t suit all comic writing styles but I would love to develop this into an actual piece of software one day.