From Novel to Webcomic?

@JeanGuillet Jean Guillet
Sun, 25 Nov 2018 01:24:34 +0000

@JeanGuillet wrote:

I didn't publish the novel here on Tapas, but I wrote a full novel before deciding that I couldn't crack the publishing market without an audience, that I couldn't get an audience with words alone, that I needed images, images went to illustration, and when I started illustrating, it turned into a webcomic. Now I'm 190 episodes in and have four mirrors and a billion social accounts and patreon accounts and spinoffs and insanity. I'm seriously glad I've got the script from start to finish though, it's a huge headache off my mind. I can't imagine trying to plot and manage all these websites at the same time AND draw the comic.

The tough:
figure out a way to do character internal narration without narration. (or with minimal)
other than snappy dialogue, you can't use any of the nice turns of phrase that went into the book, my fix is to incorporate the phrases I really like into dialogue somehow. makes the characters rather more sharp tongued than they originally were, but this has been a plus, not a minus.

The easy:
I can use physical comedy and slapstick now! I love this part of comics. Somehow I learned how to write an action scene in a novel, but slapstick -- I just couldn't do it with words. Physical comedy so much fun to draw.
I've got a story with a beginning, middle, and end, and I'm not stuck on any of those plot points that make people take their comics constantly on hiatus while they figure out what to do next.