Comic Script Examples

[TheBryceKrispy]

I'm looking for examples of a comic script.

Note: I'm looking for the writing before its pictures.

[nostalgicroxas]

Like a font or the actual writing before it's in pictures?

[TheBryceKrispy]

I'm looking for examples. The actual writing before its pictures.

[nostalgicroxas]

I imagine they're a lot like movie scripts and have no actual drawings on them. This process is different than storyboarding which some comic artists use, and most movies use to break down beat by beat moments.

Script above, and storyboard below.

[Jenny-Toons]

I've posted about this before, so here's my reply:

I consider myself to be a bit of a veteran. As of now, I'm writing several scripts for my big comic project, and I've completed 3 of them. I've kinda developed a method that works for myself. Though, rule of thumb: there's really no rule for how you write your scripts. The important thing is that when you leave it and come back to it, everything still makes sense to YOU. Maybe not to an outsider, but it has to make sense to YOU (and whoever else you have looking over your script). For myse…

If you're writing a script, the biggest idea is that it has to make sense to you and whoever you're with work on the comic.

So there's no clean cut way to make them. Just, whichever way is easier for you to follow.

[DavidPerry]

True. It's good to know a basic format that applies in a professional setting, but that's really only relevant if you're working for someone else--and even then, they'll have their own nuanced formatting for their particular needs.

The scripts for my web comic are really, really basic. Bare-bones and not greatly descriptive because I'm the only one that uses it, so it's a time saver to not be overtly organized if I already know what I've got in my head.

[Jenny-Toons]

Yeah, that's kinda why I said just go with whatever feels right for you.

For me, I don't always come back to my scripts often enough, so I need to know exactly what direction I was heading in. That's kinda why I keep my as detailed as I can be. I work alone, so this is really my best method.

But, as you said, some can keep it bare-boned and it works for them. It's really just keeping to to where you can understand it if you've been away from it for a while and aren't actively working on it.