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I didn't realize comic books had story boards
As a kid, I loved reading comics, and wanted to be a comic strip artist much
like Charles Schulz [1] or Jim Davis [2]. I had even attempted once to draw a
comic book. What I don't recall is how I wrote the comic book.
I had seen how comic books are written, thanks to an oversized (nearly poster
sized) Superman special comic book, and it looked more like a screenplay than
a comic book (oddly enough, most movies, or at least those made by Messrs.
Lucas and Spielberg, go through a storyboard phase which looks more like a
comic book than a screenplay). So all these years, I kind of assumed that's
how comic books are written.
Not really [3] (link via news from me [4]).
Or rather, it's really up to the writer, as this Porky Pig comic script
written by Chase Craig [5], shows.
[1]
http://www.schulzmuseum.org/
[2]
http://pressroom.garfield.com/jim_bio/
[3]
http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Essays/PorkyPigScript/PorkyPigScript.htm
[4]
http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2008_01_29.html#014723
[5]
http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Essays/PorkyPigScript/PorkyPigScript1.htm
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