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Comics for Film, Games, and Animation
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Comics for Film, Games, and Animation

by Tyler Weaver
May 2013
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
8h 31m
English
Routledge
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INTERLUDE

Five Mantras for Writing a Comics Script

Although this entire book is about giving you the stylistic tools through a look at the evolution of comics storytelling, it wouldn’t be complete without a section, no matter how small, about how to create a comic script.

Although I had been a comics reader for more than 20 years by the time I wrote the script (along with my writing partner Paul Klein) for Whiz!Bam!Pow! Comics #7, there was a bit of a learning curve to switch to the comics medium (from our original medium of film). Here are five mantras we kept repeating to ourselves when writing the script.

1. Comics is Not Film

They are a completely different medium. Sure, there have been innumerable adaptations of comics into film (and vice ...

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