Script Writing for Comics: Explore Visual Storytelling
Influences
A course by Fred Van Lente , Writer
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Whenever I experience a story I love, it inspires me to make my own stories. This still happens every day, but here’s the creators who built me into the writer I am from the very beginning. ”
In this video lesson Fred Van Lente addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Script Writing for Comics: Explore Visual Storytelling. Learn to create professional scripts for comic books and graphic novels featuring scene descriptions, characters, and dialogue.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Influences In this lesson, I'll be telling you about influences on me as a comics writer. As a kid, after I had devoured the great comic book heroes and all the golden age heroes, I moved on to reprints of the old '60s Marvel comics and I completely devoured them. The biggest creative force in that era was Jack Kirby. In addition to being a terrific artist, Jack Kirby was a terrific idea man and came up with the greatest concepts in superhero history. "The Eternals," which is about a bunch of immortals living through Earth's history is perhaps my all-time favorite. Although it's hard not ...”
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Course summary for: Script Writing for Comics: Explore Visual Storytelling
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Areas
Comic, Communication, Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Script, Storyboard, Storytelling
Fred Van Lente
A course by Fred Van Lente
Fred Van Lente is a best-selling writer specializing in comic books and graphic novels. He fell in love with the medium as a child, teaching himself to read via comics at four years old and experimenting with drawing his own. He went on to study film at Syracuse University and join the school comics club where he met a group of illustrators and comic book artists. They later moved in together in New York City and set their sights on breaking into the comics industry.
Together, Fred and his university alumni created the crime comic The Silencers which caught the attention of Marvel Comics. He then spent the next decade working for Marvel on comics like The Amazing Spider-Man, Iron Man Legacy, and Wolverine: First Class. Fred also co-wrote The Incredible Hercules and wrote a how-to book for Random House called Make Comics Like the Pros. He has written comics that have been used for movies such as Cowboys & Aliens, and is a published novelist and playwright.
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