With our third comic, The Adventures of Mickey the Moose #2, successfully launched I thought I’d talk about the process I go through to make a comic. There are as many different ways to produce comics as there are comics, so this is just one of them. I control every aspect of the production from development to distribution. If you work with a larger publisher, it is a whole other … [Read more...] about Creating Comics Part 1 – Concept to Development
Creating Comics
Creating Comics Part 2 – Writing the Script
So now you have your ideas all fleshed out so it's time to get them into a form your collaborators can use. This is your script. As with everything else in this process, there are many ways to do this. This is my way. 4) Writing The Script I usually start writing the actual script before I finish all the individual page layouts because the book evolves as I script it. I don’t want to be too … [Read more...] about Creating Comics Part 2 – Writing the Script
Creating Comics Part 3 – Working with Collaborators
5) Working With My Artists. Aaron Lange, the artist of the Mickey the Moose series, is a master of page layout, among many other things. He sometimes takes my specific ideas and modifies them in a way that is visually pleasing and often quite remarkable. Other times he just follows my instructions to the letter. Nearly every time, his decisions have been appropriate. Aaron and I have worked … [Read more...] about Creating Comics Part 3 – Working with Collaborators