The Superhero Comic: Narrative and Graphic Design
Script: reading and interpretation
A course by Carlos Pacheco , Comic Artist
Joined February 2016
Joined February 2016
About the video: Script: reading and interpretation
Overview
“We will work with a professional script by Gerry Duggan, author of Deadpool and Uncanny Avengers, who has given us the script pages we need to complete this course.”
In this video lesson Carlos Pacheco addresses the topic: Script: reading and interpretation, which is part of the Domestika online course: The Superhero Comic: Narrative and Graphic Design. Learn to design the layout, sketches, lighting, and finishes for comic strips.
Partial transcription of the video
“Well, first of all, what we're up against. Because the comic book artist. It is with the interpretation of a script. Obviously a comic strip. It has to have a base. On which we have to start drawing. And the basis is what is happening. What happens is told in something. Obviously that is what our profession is. And other similar ones are called scripts. Don't confuse the script. With history or plot. As is the term used in English. To define the argument of what is happening. Many people consider a script. It is better or worse done Depending on what happens. Or what happens to the characte...”
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Course summary for: The Superhero Comic: Narrative and Graphic Design
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Category
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Areas
Character Design, Comic, Drawing, Narrative, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration
Carlos Pacheco
A course by Carlos Pacheco
Carlos Pacheco (1961-2022) was a professional comic book artist. He worked in the US comic industry for companies such as Marvel and DC, with forays into independent comics.
Throughout his career, he worked on collections of popular characters like Avengers, X-Men, Captain America, The Fantastic Four, Inhumans, Superman, Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Flash, and Justice League of America.
His work was recognized with numerous awards such as the 1996 Revelation Author by Wizard magazine, Best Spanish Author by the readers of specialist magazine Dolmen, Best Spanish Comic Cartoonist by the Granada Comic Fair in 2001, and by the 2004 Fantastic and Horror Film Week in Estepona, Málaga. In addition, his own series, created alongside US screenwriter Kurt Busiek, was nominated for the prestigious Eisner awards in 2004. In 2010, he was awarded the Andalusian Comic prize at the Granada International Comic Fair.
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