Dm me for more info.

Or email: [email protected]

Yes, that is indeed me who ask JA on his asked me anything on Instagram.

Like I’ve been interested in writing my own comic

Like I got books and everything

Just haven’t wrote down a script

Mostly doing outline or characters, names, and stuff like that

There are a LOT of books out there on how to write and make comics. Scott McCloud's books are essentials, and Carl Pott's THE DC GUIDE TO CREATING COMICS is excellent. The most useful for me has been Nick Macari's WORKING WRITER'S GUIDE TO COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS, which lays out really helpful techniques and tips on just about everything. Which book is your favorite - and why??

If you use AI to generate your post, it's gonna be deleted. This is a writing subreddit, you are required to know how to communicate to your fellow humans. Please note, that this includes posts SUSPECTED of being AI generated. This isn't a court of law, where things need to be proven--if it reads like AI slop, it's gonna get blasted.

If you don't follow the rules for posting promos, it's gonna be deleted. It doesn't matter if it's AI or human made.

And here's the part people need to understand:

If you are genuinely trying to use AI to produce a comic this subreddit does not discriminate against AI if you follow the other posting rules.

You're not likely to get a lot of support or positivity posting AI generated comic stuff here, you're probably better off in one of reddit's dedicated AI comic subreddits... but we're not going to stop you if you feel you must share here.

Write on, write often!

I just launched my first ever comic, but it’s all hitting me how obscenely hard it is to make it as a writer. Writing in of itself… honestly pretty easy, but being a writer isn’t even about “being a writer”.

Unless you can also draw, color and letter you’re literally just a piggy bank with an idea... that also has to market everything.

Getting a comic made is insanely expensive assuming you have a good artist and you pay them fairly. And not only is it insanely expensive, but there really isn’t even that much money to be made in the space.

Idk why any of us do this to ourselves.

That said, it’s a cool experience and I can’t wait to barely break even on getting my comic made.

If anyone here with more experience has some secret sauce spread I’d love to hear it.

We just had someone post this long ass post asking if people were going to steal their ideas (a common noob writer point of stress).

The poster got all bent out of shape about some quite direct and honest answers, all of which were helpful, not malevolent.

Anyway, point is, the OP got so upset and some very soft pushback, that they didn't just delete their post, but their entire reddit account. I can only assume it was a burner account, I didn't get a chance to see the history before they deleted it...

but here's a couple of points for everyone:

1. If you want to write... especially in indie comics, it's an undertaking that literally puts your most personal self on display for the world to see. The very essence of writing is throwing your creativity into the public eye and scream "judge me."

If you start pitching a "detective cat comic", you're gonna get people who don't like cats responding to you. This is just life.

If you just started writing and throw out a sample of your writing with every rookie mistake, people are gonna call you out on it.

And then, in the end, even when you've been writing a million years, and publish your latest graphic novel. Negative people are just going to find the things they don't like about it and complain about it.

If you don't respond well to the good and the bad, you're not going to do well in writing. And believe me, people can be and will be cruel. Especially in indie comics, where so many failed creators want to see other creators fail so they can feel better about themselves.

2) If you take the time to post, leave it up. Even if you feel the advice is not exactly what you wanted. When people take the time out of their day to make a reply and you just delete the entire thing the next day because you don't like the responses, you're wasting folks time... and then double wasting folks time, because someone new may come to the subreddit a month later with the exact same question and the process starts all over again.

If you just leave your posts up, folks may take a second to search the subreddit and find the answers without a second round.

As you were.

Write on, write often!

Recently I’ve really wanted to start writing comics but have no idea where to start. I WILL TAKE ALL THE HELP I CAN GET

I'm genuinely curious. Why do you want to create a comic book? It seems like everything is against the creator. I'm talking to the writer/creators. If you know how to draw, this world is perfect for you. This was my first foray into this world. My comic book turned into a graphic novel and this journey has been ridiculously hard at every turn. I bit off more than I can chew. I merely had an idea and it ballooned. The amount of money one has to spend to create one is exorbitant. The market for traditional comic books is really small. It is so hard to get published. Mangas are the wave. Outside of me just wanting to complete, I do not why I continue. Everything is against the comic book creator. You're just meet with resistance. You have to constantly hustle to get eyes on your book. Almost have to be a masochist to keep creating. Shoutout to all the people creating these things.

Howdy, out of curiosity, how do you write your comic scripts? It is written in the style of a movie or playscript? or do you just write out the dialog?

For me, I take a page and then make a table with three columns titled "Pannel Number" "Description" and "Dioloage/Narration" then I add as many rows to represent the different pannels on the page. Like this:

Page 1:

I keep each table for each page on their respected page.

My new book BRIDGE PLANET NINE is now officially out! I’m so thrilled with how it turned out. This is my first published work and I couldn’t be happier with it.

It’s a sci-fi heist story with action, adventure and just a touch of horror in the mix.

If you’d like a copy, please grab it from your favorite local comic shop or book store!

https://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/bridge-planet-nine/1135

Dear all,

Reddit says that it’s been 190 days since my last post where I’ve asked for ideas for the comics writing app.

Here I am again and ready to present you a comic book writing software. It is a very early version and I’d like to ask if you could check it out and share your thoughts and ideas of what we could improve.

What's under the hood of the comic book module in the current version:- You can create unlimited scripts (issues) inside a single project;- You can add a comic book title page and synopsis;- Smart typing for comic book editor (you can just use Enter and Tab buttons for moving between different paragraphs type, like in the screenwriting software);- Automatic numbering of the comics pages, panels and dialogues (you just need to to go over to the next page, panel, or start writing dialogue / SFX / caption and number will be applied to the block in real-time);- Auto hints for the characters names and states;- Script navigator (double click at the script item in the project tree) allows you to reorganize pages and panels, check dialogues words count and add colors to the items (via context menu);- Simple statistics of the script;- Export to pdf / docx file.

What I plan to add in the future updates:- A feature to customize comics templates- Any cool ideas from the community 🙂

Please share your thoughts, questions and any kind of feedback here or via any kind of contact form you can find on the app's website.

Thanks so much in advance!

UPD: Here is a small preview of how to work with app.