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SHORT STORY/ONE-SHOT/ONE CHAPTER/COMICS 101 CRASH COURSE RAPIDPUNCHES’ STYLE
I’m NOT an expert but I have some working experience I can share. You need experience to become great. Here is my set of instructions, tips, and notes towards making a 12-page comic.
My method is to work backwards. Personally I work “backwards” because the end is the only wholly necessary page or set of panels in the story. Everything in between is open to editing and hacking as the most important moments are emphasized and chosen.
I even plan/draw the end page first. The end is the last page a reader sees- so spend your freshest energies on making it as epic, memorable, poignant, and beautiful as #$%^&.
If you draw the pages from 1 to 12 sequentially you run the risk of fresh to burnt out- an uneven distribution of drawing skill. (treat the first page and the 2-page splash as you would the last).
Roughly… the steps to making your comic is
WRITE
PLAN THUMBNAILS
DRAW
…BEGIN THE WRITING (DO NOT SKIP NO MATTER WHAT) like this, in this order:
How does it end?
Does the protag succeed or fail?
What is the turning point of their story?
What the protag do that led them there?
Where does it start?
Who is this protag?
EXAMPLE:
Guy gets mauled by a bear.
This is a fail on the guy’s half.
The bear must eat something or he’ll starve to death.
It’s the guy’s fault the bear can’t find other food. He caused the avalanche that buried all the cabins.
The guy is yodeling in an avalanche zone.
The guy is some guy.
CREATING “THE BEAT SHEET” Take the above stuff and reorder it to make sense.
This guy yodels.
Echoes roll.
Snow slides down.
Avalanche buries the mountain.
Cabins are engulfed.
This bear has no access to cabin food and garbage.
Bear eats this guy.
Expand. Blow up important beats for emphasis. Keep less important beats brief.
This guy is hiking in the snowy mountains.
He comes across an avalanche warning sign.
There is nobody around but him.
A dumb expression forms over his face and he yodels.
Echoes roll but nothing nearby is moved.
At the top of the mountain the snow drifts twitch.
Guy, satisfied, hikes away from there still yodeling.
Frozen snow cracks.
Snow puffs billow and great slabs of ice crash down the mountain side.
Guy sees this and hightails it to safer ground.
Animals, people, are all panicking and getting pushed over by the rushing snow.
Cabins are destroyed.
The guy takes cover by an outcropping of rocks, fastens himself securely to the rock face, and waits for the avalanche to die down.
Avalanche dies down.
A lone bear shambles over from the other side of the mountain.
The bear goes to where a cabin used to be (only roof tiles are left). Bear sniffs a dish satellite.
Bear forlornly eats a food wrapper.
Bear tries to dig.
Guy comes down from the rocks he as climbing and sees bear.
Bear stops digging and sees him.
Guy runs.
Bear chases him down.
Bear eats the guy.
BEAT SHEET COMPLETED!!!
After the beat sheet, write up all the sound effects and speech bubbles and conversation/dialogue you want to be in your comic.
Since comics are a visual medium, highest priority is given to the beats. If a story can’t be told with the art without the dialogue– you messed up and it’s time to rethink your life choices.
Try to keep all your text chunks as short as a tweet. Professionally you don’t want more than 25 words per speech bubble and no more than 250 words per page.
Next is translating the beats to pages…
STRUCTURE OVERVIEW:
[1] point of entry, in media res, hero intro
[2][3] conflict. establish conflict, setting, and mood by the third page. [4][5] rising action/false resolution to conflict/investigation
[6][7] turning point/plot twist/epiphany (this one epic image, to page spread is pivotal, spend a lot of effort into creating this)
[8][9] aftermath/“darkness before dawn”/struggle [10][11] recovery/“rise and conquer”/“fall”
[12] resolution/final end/cliffhanger
[front cover][interior] [interior][back cover]
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My maximum per page is nine panels but I’ve seen pages that have way more. I like to have about 3 to 4 panels per row or less but I’ve seen the “rules” broken before. Advanced comic book artists manipulate time with the number of panels and the size of each panel.
remember, DIAGONALS!!! open up an issue of batman, superman, spider man, deadpool or whatever youre reading theyre everywhere.
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…DRAW IN THIS ORDER:
Page 12,
Page 6 and 7 (this is typically one large image that takes up the space of two pages),
Page 1,
and then the rest.
ONLY “DEVIATION” ALLOWED:
Page 12 and 1*
Page 6 and 7,
and then the rest.
*Draw the first and last page as a spread in situations where the beginning of the story mirrors the end of the story.
Cover is dead last.
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(If at the very end you find out you need more pages and it’s absolutely unavoidable and totally necessary you have to add them in fours. Try to stick to 12 pages for this crash course.)
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FURTHER NOTES:
Plan and draw the pages in spreads (the twos) since this is how it will appear in print and when you submit them to an editor for review guess what, the pages with an exception to the first and last will be reviewed as spreads.
You at most only need one establishing panel of the setting and environment (scene) per page.
Forget “true to life” perspective outside of the establishing panel). Practice diagonal composition of objects and subjects within panels. For dynamism.
You don’t have to present the text all in one go (one paragraph or bubble). You can and should break up paragraphs, sentences, and if you need to single out words– to make smaller, more easily managed bubbles to scatter through the panel.
Less important moments have smaller panels and or lesser detail. More details (or more word bubbles) slow down time. More drawn detail also creates a concentration of values (it’s darker and sometimes combines together as one shape or mass)
Know your light sources. Control the blacks. Control the values.
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(more coming soon 11/22/2016)
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At the time of this reblog, it can be purchased for $0 with a fair price request of $3.
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dawg can't even fry me an egg in this eyeconomy
I'M CRYING THIS IS SO FUNNY
Real me too Martin
Wallace Argus-Reed, my new D&D character
⚠️ SPOILERS FOR THE MAGNUS PROTOCOL!! ⚠️
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My take (so far) on Sam and Alice!
Ok I saw a thing talking about this and I'm curious about what others thought about this question:
Would it ruin the experience of The Magnus Archives to decide to skip the first season?
Yes, there are important references in it that if missed would make it confusing
yes, there is something missed in the experience of the story when skipped
no, skipping at least 1-37 wouldn't hurt if you don't like the sound quality
no, skipping at least 1-37 wouldn't hurt if you don't like the lack of meta plot
no, the idea that media must be consumed in a certain way creates weird pressure
no, but at least read the wikis and transcripts for the skipped episodes
if they want to skip season 1 then they shouldn't listen to the show
I don't care either way / show results
I'm mainly curious about why it would be good or bad to skip it, so further explanations in comments are reblogs is appreciated. I was thinking about how making the consumption of media something that must be done in a certain way can make it feel more like a chore than relaxing. Magnus's first season without knowing the rest of the show can appear inconsequential to some since it has the lowest sound quality of the bunch and the least amount of meta plot of all of the seasons, but it does contain important moments and foreshadowing in a lot of it so there is a case to be made for why someone should not skip it. There is also the argument of just saying "maybe it isn't for you" if something about season 1 turns them off. But that depends on how important you think season 1 is as a set up for what the rest of the show is like.
I am a big BIG proponent of listening to this podcast in a way that best engages you.
It took me at least three real tries to listen to TMA, because the first few episodes felt really slow and I’d been promised an overarching narrative that I just wasn’t seeing (or, hearing). And the only reason I did eventually listen to it was because of that promised narrative, which I learned about from spoilery TikTok audios from later episodes. That’s not a dig on the podcast; it just wasn’t my speed at first.
Now, I’m absolutely obsessed with the podcast, and every episode is special to me, because I see them in a new way. I care about the narrator/main character because I know who he IS now. And I can better connect the Statements to the story as a whole.
Maybe this is blasphemous, but if the story feels too slow for you, but you know there’s a point you want to reach, just… reach it now! You can always go back and listen to earlier episodes for clarification later.
⚠️ SPOILERS FOR THE MAGNUS PROTOCOL!! ⚠️
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My take (so far) on Sam and Alice!
I realized I hadn’t posted these here!!
TAGGED FOR SPOILERS FOR SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME!!
Two scenes I redrew from the movie. :)
⚠️ SPOILERS FOR THE MAGNUS PROTOCOL!! ⚠️
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My take (so far) on Sam and Alice!
Here's some old TAZ art I drew for @findingnimo108 based on their super amazing, awesome fic!! It's very good and cool and you all should check it out!!!!
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“Gold Star” pt. 2: The version without the 🩸 … idk it’s growing on me, but I feel like some of the meaning is also lost
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This Digital Prints item is sold by realmollygrace. Ships from Chicago, IL. Listed on Jun 4, 2023
Friend: *points out an abandoned, long-since-closed Michaels*
Me: The building that was once Michaels
Friend: I walked right into that one
When Martin learns that Jon can understand any language, he looks up the Unicode for his favorite emojis and memorizes them so that he can verbally say them to Jon. The first time he tells him “🥰”, Jon doesn’t realize what’s happening and is like “How are you doing that with your mouth”
See the individual "panels" here!