Thanks a lot. Very helpful information. I guess there’s no standard comic script format. And I guess I have to start working on making our script shorter. Thanks again for your posts, they’re excellent and very useful.

Best,

I’ll admit I’m not intimately familiar with screenwriting conventions, but my script was probably somewhat similar to a screenplay; it was heavy on dialogue, with brief descriptions regarding locations and actions when needed.

As for how many drafts I wrote, that’s hard to say. Three or four, maybe? I revised it countless times. After I wrote the script, I laid out the pages (sort of like a storyboard) and made several changes then. Then after I finished the “final” art, I continued tweaking it. I’m still toying with different variations of how I might finish up the story even today.

It’s been years since I looked at the original typed script; these days I just work from the page layout/storyboards. But if memory serves, I think it was about one script page for every ten pages of finished art. But then, the script was written in pretty dense prose, and I only have four panels per pages, so…

Lars

Fantastic post. Did you write your script using screenwriting (film) format? How many drafts did you end up writing? How many pages of illustrations equals one script page?

Best,

JJ

My method for creating comics is atypical, but if you’re curious, I’m going to write about how I draw comics in a future installment of the “Creating Tonoharu” series, which should be up early January.

But if you’re just starting out with drawing comics, I’d say yeah, just start doodling and have fun with it. Experiment with different styles, different paper, and different pens. It’ll probably take you a few years before you feel like you have any sense of what you’re doing anyway (at least it did for me).

Lars