An evolving list of #Makecomics resources
Credit and thanks to Caleb Monroe for compiling the original list.
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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
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
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
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 and Characterisation by Steven Grant
Craft ‘Notecard’ Story Structure Plotting by Ben Towle
Writing The Plot- Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 by Marv Wolfman
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
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
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
The Job Of The Comic Book Editor by Mark Waid
Breaking Into The Big Two by Tom Brevoort and Johanna Draper Carlson
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
Decompressed By Kieron Gillen
Make It Then Tell Everybody by Dan Berry
Let's Talk Comics by Jim Viscardi
Comics Experience Podcast: Make Comics
How To Kickstarter by Keith Knight
How to: A case study for a first time Kickstarter: Part One and Part Two by Spencer Tomaya.
Joshua Williamson/Mike Henderson
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