How to Guide: by Barry Lyga

Here's a handy primer on writing comics.

It's written by Barry Lyga, whom I've never heard of before, but seems to know what he's talking about. There's a short bio on the top of the page listing his credentials.

First, we need to clear up a couple of very popular misconceptions about comics. One is that writing comics is easy. After all, a look at a comic book page shows that most of the heavy lifting is done by the art, right? No need to write "John ran across the field" when the artist has drawn John doing precisely that! This misconception goes hand-in-hand with another: namely, that all comic book writers do is write the words that go into the word balloons.

The article is very informative, and even contains a short bit of script. I love scripts. For whatever reason, I like to have the format down for anything I do. Seems to make it easier.