Comicwriterservices

An evolving list of #Makecomics resources

View the Project on GitHub danieljhill/comicwriterservices

Credit and thanks to Caleb Monroe for compiling the original list.

If there are any suggestions, dead links, or amendments for the list let me know via email.

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Writing for Comics (General)

Comic Writer Master Post by Kieron GIllen

Breaking In Without Rules by Kurt Busiek

Survival Tips For The Newbie Writer by Gail Simone

Comic Storytelling Tips by Lee Sullivan

So You Want To Be a Writer? by Ron Marz

Finding The Story by Gerard Jones

How To Break Into Comics? An Answer by JT Krul

What A Comics Script Is For by Warren Ellis

Writing for Comic Books and Animated Films by Adam Beechen

Writing Comics by Mike Baron

How To Survive Writing A Graphic Novel by Grady Klein

Writing For Comics by Anina Bennett

Writing Comic Books by Barry Lyga

Creating Your Own Comic 101: Scripting

Rambling About How I Write Comics- Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, and Part Five

How I Start Writing (and eventually finish a story) by Joshua Dysart

Brutal Tips On Breaking Into Comics by Gail Simone

Breaking Into Comics by Colin O'Mahoney: Part One: Getting Started, Part Two: Pitching Professionally and Part Three: Staying In

John Ostrander's Comic Script Tips

World-Building: The Three Key Elements by Paul Allor

Three Rules for Writing Visually by Ron Marz

Kelly Sue DeConnick’s Tips for Writing: Ultimate Comics Writer’s Workshop

Jamie Colville's MP3 files A huge resource of various craft related convention panels.

Comic Writing 101 by Ryan K Lindsay

My Future Shock Hell: Breaking Into 2000 AD (And What I Learned While Doing It) by Alec Worley

The Comics Survival Kit

Writing Columns

Where The Hell Am I? by Jason Aaron

The Proving Grounds by Steven Forbes

Bolts & Nuts by Steven Forbes

Points Of Impact by Yannick Morin

Newsarama Process Pieces

Waid Wednesdays by Mark Waid

Come In Alone by Warren Ellis

What Th-? by Marv Wolfman

The Basement Tapes by Matt Fraction and Joe Casey (a personal favourite of mine)

Strange Love: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying About Breaking Into Comic Books by Jeremy Holt

Creating Comics 01: Cullen Bunn on Creating Comics by Cullen Bunn

Imagine A Chair by Paul Allor

The Idea

Establishing Your Core Idea by Jim Zubkavich

The Idea by Steven Grant

So Where Do You Get Your Ideas? by Marv Wolfman

Theme: what's in it for your? by Alec Worley

Characters

Characters and Characterisation by Steven Grant

The Plot

Craft ‘Notecard’ Story Structure Plotting by Ben Towle

Writing The Plot- Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 by Marv Wolfman

Scripting

Plot To Script: This Is How I Do It by Cullen Bunn

The Process by Antony Johnston

The Mechanics Of Writing Comic Books - Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3

Scripting The Light Fantastic by Marv Wolfman

Writing Comic Books Marvel Style by John Rozum

Paneling, Pacing and Layout in Comics, Part 2 by Rivkah

Comic script formatting: Here's what I do... by Alec Worley

How I Write Comix by Fred Van Lente

How Do You Do That? by JM DeMatteis

Kieron Gillen & Matt Fraction on the Marvel Method in a modern context

Sample Scripts

Comic Book Script Archive

Dark Horse Script Guide PDF and Word

Dark Blue by Warren Ellis

Various Sample Scripts by Dwayne McDuffie

Writing Samples by Anina Bennett

Phonogram 2.1: Pull Shapes Script by Kieron Gillen

Original 2000AD Scripts Thread

SAVE HIM - Script & Monsters & DREDD CLOSET & SUPERMAN SAVIOUR by Rob Williams

Zero #2 by Ales Kot

Sixth Gun #1 by Cullen Bunn

The Making of Five Ghosts by Frank Barbierre

Batman #0 by James Tynion IV

DREDD Scripts by Rob Williams

Cabal Two Parter Script by John Freeman

Trees #1 by Warren Ellis (subscribe to his excellent newsletter here)

NEW Greg Pak's Script Template

Pitching And Submissions (including sample pitches)

Pitch for Hawaiian Dick by B. Clay Moore

Pitch For Archenemies by MELBOURNE, GUICHET, RUBENSTEIN, HILTBRUNNER & KEPLINGER

DV8 Pitch/Proposal by Micah Wright

Pitch Document for Tumor by Josh Fialkov

Pitch Document for Feeding Ground by Lapinskin, Lang and Mangun (I REALLY recommend people take a look at this, it's a beautifully put together document).

Pitch Peek-The Intrepids by Kurtis Wiebe

Inside Out by Ed Brisson

The Proposal: Part One and Part Two by Mark Waid

The Submission Guidelines For Every Comic and Manga Publisher In The Universe

The Original Proposal for Sixth Gun by Cullen Bunn

The Original Proposal for Helheim by Cullen Bunn

The Pitch for Luther Strode by Justin Jordan

First Casualty by Jeremy Holt

The Pitch by Warren Ellis

The Pitch and Black As Pitch by Steven Grant

Do, or Do Not; There Is No Try by Larry Young

Getting Your Submission Read by Erik Larsen, Devin Grayson, John Ostrander and Chuck Dixon

Slushpile by Jennifer DeGuzman

What Editors Look For In A Submission by John Freeman

Here Comes The Pitch(Part One), Part Two, Part Three and Part Four by Jim Zubkavich

Editors

The Job Of The Comic Book Editor by Mark Waid

Breaking Into The Big Two by Tom Brevoort and Johanna Draper Carlson

Digital Comics

How To Host Your Own Webcomic by D.J Coffman

The Broadcast Of Comics by Warren Ellis

Truly Digital Comics by Mark Waid

Writing For Digital by Mark Waid

Thoughts on Digital Comic Formatting, Pace and Flow by Jeremy Rock

Podcasts

The Process

Decompressed By Kieron Gillen

The Paper Wings Podcast

Make It Then Tell Everybody by Dan Berry

Let's Talk Comics by Jim Viscardi

Comics Experience Podcast: Make Comics

Comixlaunch

Crowd-Funding Your Work (Kickstarter, IndieGoGo)

How To Kickstarter by Keith Knight

How to: A case study for a first time Kickstarter: Part One and Part Two by Spencer Tomaya.

Reddit AMA's

Brian K. Vaughan

Matt Fraction

Sam Humphries

Jim Zubkavich

Charles Soule

Andy Diggle

Brian Clevinger

Kurtis Wiebe

Justin Jordan

Cullen Bunn

Alex De Campi

Brandon Seifert

Kieron Gillen

Nathan Edmondson

Brandon Graham

Joshua Fialkov

Nick Spencer

Michael Moreci

Joss Whedon

David Liss

Tim Seeley

Chris Roberson

Howard Chaykin

Christos Gage

Greg Rucka

Landry Walker/Eric Jones

Fred Van Lente

Eric Powell

Chuck Dixon

Joe Harris

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Joshua Williamson/Mike Henderson

Matt Kindt

Miscellany

Comic Book Grammar by Nate Piekos

On Ongoing Superhero Comic Accessibility by Kieron Gillen

Scrivening Comics by Antony Johnston

Everything You Wanted To Know About Comic Book Marketing by Justin Jordan

Making Comics: Why I’ve Failed So Far by Josh Flanagan

Short Comics by Joe Casey and Matt Fraction

Staying In After Breaking In by Joe Casey and Matt Fraction

Grant Morrison Interview Archive

Getting Things Written by Antony Johnston

Theme and Setting by Steven Grant

DMZ #4 Notes by Brian Wood

Reactive Writing,Staying Connected Vs. Getting Lost, and Endings by Joe Casey and Matt Fraction

Writing Action Scenes by John Rogers

Modus Operandi by Ryan Ferrier

Just Make It Happen by Joey Esposito

The Working Woes Of a Letterpunk

The Reality of Mainstream Creator-Owned Comics by Jim Zub

How I Do It by Charles Soule

Things I’ve learned so far…Part 1 and Part 2 by Daniel Clifford