I'm making a comic for my senior thesis since I'm in art school and I want to write a good like eldritch horror. For context, my basic idea is about 3 girls trying to find their missing friend as they discover a hidden cult underneath their school.
Is there any like good writing books on horror I should read?
I have a whole universe I’m working , I believe I already take steps to make sure I’m not falling into cliches too much, but I wanna know what are other people’s steps to avoid cliches.
Hi everyone,
I’ve been a massive fan of superhero lore and fiction for as long as I can remember. Recently, I decided to finally take the leap and start creating my very own fictional superhero universe!
Right now, my resources are quite simple: I don’t have a high-tech setup—just my smartphone, a wildly vivid imagination, immense passion, and a ton of fresh, creative ideas waiting to be put together.
Since I am starting completely from scratch as a writer, I would love to get some guidance from the experienced creators here.
I'm incredibly excited to dive into this journey. Any tips, brainstorming methods, or advice for a beginner would mean the world to me!
Thanks in advance! Let's build some worlds.
This might be a dumb question so sorry in advance, but when writing comic scripts for artists, should I take the pricing of each page in account too? So basically I wanna write a script in hopes an artist will turn it into a comic for me in the future and I know it can be expensive per page, so I often shorten the amount of panels in a page or try to use less pages so that it’ll be cheaper for when I eventually pitch it to an artist. The issue is, there’s so much to tell in the story and reducing the panels and pages doesn’t allow for me to express everything I want in the story. This can be like dialogue and some fight scenes and other stuff. It’s a fantasy and action story so I know people are mainly gonna be reading for the action anyway, but I do think it’s want my characters to feel human. Should I take the pricing into account or just write without worrying abt that? Or is there a way to do both in a way?
So me and my friend were gonna make a little pokemon manga based off of a fan made game. I'm doing the writing and things for just the story line but I also kinda wanna try and draw it out too? I was just wondering what the process is.
Some tips specifically about establishing the world building without directly telling the audience, or pacing, would be appreciated.
The genre is fantasy and mystery in modern day with a little slice of life.
My friend and I are into manga and we need help and advice from those who are into it or know something about it.
Here is a link to our web novel:https://www.webnovel.com/book/the-king-ashes_35063498908746405
I want to take a lot of inspiration from Quinton Tarantino, particularly Inglorious Basterds, Specifically/particularly in that instead of everyone somehow knows how to speak English with some sprinkles of foreign languages (I want to deconstruct that part of comics a little bit), but full-blown Germans speaking German, Russians speaking Russian, French speaking French, and British and Americans speaking English, all with lingua Francas when they communicate with each other.
But for writing in graphic novels, there are a few problems with a number of ways I can do this, all of which get repetitive and takes up WAY too much pannel space. There is one way I thought of where speech bubbles are in the intended language and a smaller attached square bubble has the English translation. But that will inevitably take up A LOT of pannel space. And if I wrote the test in English and had asterisks and a blurb saying "said in German" or "said in French", then it gets annoying, especially when entire chapters at a time are not intended to be in English at all.
What should I do for the graphic novel dialogue?
I don't get why the thread asking for feedback on comic writing got locked in a comic writing subreddit. I don't get what rule they violated and it's a bit annoying when I was writing a response and can't post it because it's locked but still visible.
I’m writing up a little comic on the side of my college work. And I find myself getting bored every couple weeks and taking lots of time off and the. Getting really invested and when I get invested I feel stuck.
Is there any tips for getting out of a writing slump?
I’ve been working on a manga for a bit and I’ve recently finished the storyboard and I’d like some feedback on it. And if you have any name suggestions for the book please tell me, I’ve had a tough time thinking of a name.storyboard
Like it should be noted that Todd McFarlane had a “box match” with Peter David
And then later, some beef with Neil Gaiman
It’s almost interesting that in a way he has outlived all of his you know, opponents or contractors
Sadly, Peter David died in 2025 and Neil Gaiman was revealed to be a sex pest, and he has been dropped by a lot of his publishers.
But Todd is still the head of image comics which recently they’ve been doing pretty well.
Obviously, there are cases where you could have something that is illustrated like Michelangelo and written like it was by Shakespeare.
But if we’re talking like the modern comics right now.
There are cases where the art sometimes looks different, like even with a different artist behind it
It would often follow the same in-house designs
Obviously, I’m going very broad and excluding examples where the art is not in house
For my whole life, I’ve loved comics and movies based off them, and for a while now, I’ve had a concept for a comic book in the back of my mind and recently I’ve started outlining characters.
I have a power system, antagonists, the protagonist, and other characters all but a few planned and mapped out. But I have a vague idea of how I want the story to play out. I have a slight idea of a start and a slight idea for the ending, but I’m struggling to figure out what should come between.
This is kind of a dumb question, but how do I write the story so that it’s still long, but isn’t boring and keeps readers engaged?
Quick question: I usually write prose stories (novel length and short), but am about to do a foray into creating a graphic novel with an (American) artist friend of mind. What is the normal page size in the UK for this kind of book? A4? We already did a very short one using the size that's more or less standard in the US (11" x 8.5"), and that ran into issues when we tried to print it here.
The next one, we'd like to submit to UK publishers, so we don't want to start out on the back foot.
I'm trying to write a deep creepy descent into an emotional void for a character and wanna know of some good books, movies, other comics, or anything that shows like a good inspiration and key building blocks of psychology and stuff