If You Want To Make Comics, Start With a Four Page Comic. (2022)

So, you want to make comics, but where do you start? Well, you need to learn the craft and to do this you need to start with writing a four page comic. There is a fine line between how to write a bad comic and how to write a great comic. if you want to run a marathon, you don't just get up on the day of the event and run the 26.2 miles with no prep...no training. Writing comics is the same. If you want to make comics you need to learn the craft and you begin this marathon comic journey with small four page comic strips...its where all the big British names started...Alan Moore &Grant Morrision to name but a couple and they all cut their comic teeth at 2000AD writing future shocks. So in this video, i am going to break down what you need to write a killer four page comic, so once you have learned this you can go out there and write a great comic that is 200 pages long!

Remember…IF I CAN MAKE COMICS...ANYONE CAN!

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Go back to the start and see the FIRST video in the series! https://youtu.be/ZKYnr3k_ubg

comics Will break your heart, Kid...Setting your goals, dreams and expectations! https://youtu.be/bNv7Uo5QRSU
How to plot comics videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TtGi0YYHzg&t=298s

Writing comic Scripts Part One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNUNYO0P_ms&t=14s
Writing comic Scripts Part Two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTE8EK4Liek&t=24s

Here is the link to the google drive that contains the Page template and plot document https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pbzn2bWLznMvQ1CjDfbAUBDdWkIZs3i_?usp=sharing

Comic Sizes:
US Standard (170 x 260mm)
UK Standard (157 x 240mm)
DC Black Label 220 X 280mm
Managa standard (127 X 191mm)
B6 (125mm 176mm)
A4 (210 X 297mm)
A5 (148 X 210 mm)

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