Script Writing for Comics: Explore Visual Storytelling
Now What?
A course by Fred Van Lente , Writer
About the video: Now What?
Overview
“If you created your script solely for your own personal amusement, feel free to stop the course here. But if you’d like it to be experienced by others, go ahead and watch this lesson!”
In this video lesson Fred Van Lente addresses the topic: Now What?, 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
“ Now What? Now, we'll discuss what to do with your comic once you've completed it. There's an old saying, "What's even harder than entering any creative field is staying in it." I can tell you that's true. You have to constantly innovate and challenge yourself. When I was starting in the early odds, Ryan and I got a grant from a nonprofit organization to publish "Action Philosophers!" in a physical form. This was before high-speed internet. These days, you have a lot more options than I did back then to get your comics out there. Unfortunately, the downside is that there's also more compet...”
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Course summary for: Script Writing for Comics: Explore Visual Storytelling
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Category
Illustration, Writing -
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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