The DC Comics Guide to Creating Comics by Carl Potts

Author:Carl Potts
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-09T16:00:00+00:00

No matter how well they draw, artists who want to create comics need to employ the principles and techniques of SVS in order to tell clear and compelling stories. Pictures, even beautifully drawn pictures, that do not properly relate to one another in a narrative sequence do not make good comics.

Comics writers also need to understand SVS in order to generate scripts from which their artist collaborators can easily work. New writers sometimes do not think visually and include inappropriate instructions in their scripts. For example, a naive writer may instruct the artist to show a character rising from a chair, running across a room, opening a door, and then exiting the room—all in one small panel. Unless this is a story that features the Flash and is told with multiple images of the character moving throughout the panel, it will be impractical for the artist to show this set of actions effectively in one panel.

Writers steeped in SVS are able to communicate effectively with their collaborators and can tailor their tales to take full advantage of the comics medium.

Comics * are an extremely versatile medium. They can target and appeal to any audience demographic.

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