How do you structure your comic?

@Rhonder Rhonder
Sat, 05 Dec 2020 11:25:16 +0000

@Rhonder wrote:

I have a few projects under my belt now, & so far I've used 2 different methods for writing/structuring my comics.

The typical method is to outline everything out ahead of time, so I know the full story before I get started. I'm similar in that I don't really do a dialogue script ahead of time- if there's some really important or key dialogue it gets jotted down in the outline, but 90% of it is come up with when I sit down to thumbnail the page/episode/whatever.

My current yet-to-be-released project is a little different though. I'm adapting a D&D campaign that I'm currently playing in as a comic and so... not only do I not know the whole story (as I'm not the DM, in this case) but the "writing" is a group effort to which I'm only contributing one portion. It's been useful in some ways that it takes me way longer to draw episodes than it does for us to keep playing/progressing the campaign because now working in the "past" I have a better grasp on what is to come and how to foreshadow certain things that I just... wouldn't be able to otherwise in this case