Would love to make some Comic writer friends. (Newbie)

I love graphic novels! 10 times better than any book filled with words and no pictures. So, I've decided that I wanted to become a Graphic Novelist ( Easier said than done) I came across this blog and thought right away " I had to join" Tech, I think I got it right but- I have a BIG problem with conversations. How should I go about it? It's very difficult in comics to extend conversations. I just wouldn't know how to make a page filled with converstaions. So if anyone can help me with that, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks guys!

-Hayson

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Things you hate about the process

Hello.

Figured that, by now, everyone's editing/sketching out their comics/graph novels. Figured now would be an appropriate time to discuss this.

I know one class mate absolutely hated erasing her drawings (which, given the amount of comics she draws makes sense). I tolerate it, but it's not that bad imo.

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Publish or put on-line?

Hey, all.

Title says it all. I mainly got the dialogue for my story done, mainly cuz that came faster than I could type it. I'm not really an artist, but my skill can pass for comic strips.

Anyway, I was wondering whether I should find someone to draw it and get a small publisher to look at it or say "eff it" and put it on-line.

I'm sketching it now partially to practice drawing and partly cuz I think better in pictures at time (which begs the question how I wrote anything semi coherent for NaNo last year), meaning it'll help me fill in my script.

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the last few pages I wrote to make the deadline...

...need to be arrested for disturbing the peace.

...Honestly, instead of finishing up the credible main story I was working on in Script Frenzy, I decided to use the last 9 pages storyboarding a godawful unrelated story I just did to amuse myself during my bout with the flu last week and possibly while feverish because reading over it now makes me cringe. It can only have been born out of an artist/writer having the flu.

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Your graphic novel stats?

I wrote 110 script pages, which comes out to 178 graphic novel pages, and a total of 683 panels.

And the story is maybe half done. >_<

How about you guys? :D

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Planning for the Future

I plan on making my script into a webcomic. I want to start over the summer, but I don't know if editing will be done.

I was wondering, how far ahead do comic writes/you usually plan? Do you have most of the story planned out before beginning to draw & release it? Or, do you go with the flow and just have a rough idea?

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Grinding to a halt

Grinding to a halt is any of the following occurring in April:

-you get disappointed in your script if you are the writer
-you get disappointed in your art, if you are the artist
-you get disappointed in both if you are doing both
-your storyboards look better and more natural than the finished pencils ARGH!
-people's expressions look stupid and contrived when you look over the panels
-you don't know where to fit the word balloons because you didn't leave space for them when you were drawing the penciled page, although you kind of did in the storyboards, so it's a wonder

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Passage of time

Now, I have a scene where someone is executed for a crime, and the method of execution is drowning. But the convicted woman is a mermaid who can hold her breath for almost 10 minutes. I want to have my miserable guilty-feeling MC glumly watching this whole ten minutes, while the convict's teenage daughter is screaming hysterically and needing to be held down, etc.

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Public Domain Superheroes

For anyone looking at writing comics but can't come up with names, or new superhero characters in time for this Frenzy, there's a lot of universes already out there you can just start writing for! Be it for your main character, or if you just want someone in the background, a foil, or anything, there's a bunch of Superheroes out there in the public domain that you can use for free. I found them awhile ago and here's the link: http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Public_Domain_Super_Heroes

Hope that helps someone :)

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Accents

So, what do you guys think is the best way to get across a southern accent in a comic? It's somewhat important to the plot that this character is from the south, so i'd like to make that as obvious to the reader as it is to the other characters.

It would be somewhat unnatural for the first character to meet him to mention it, as the shock of finding ANYONE around would far overwhelm the southern thing at the first meeting.

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