Creating a Graphic Novel : Art – Food – Photography

Firstly Merry Christmas all! Wishing you and your families all the best during this festive period. This is the penultimate page (with the last page to come on New Year’s Eve). This is definitely the climax page (no pun intended) and there wasn’t really that much to write as it was mainly action sequences. I […]

Action! Action! Everyone loves action. Only 2 more pages to go! This page was actually very easy to write as there wasn’t much dialogue involved. I left a lot of the actual angles etc. to Sean as he can do a fantastic job with action sequences. I guess it depends on the artist on how […]

Unlike the initial pages, there is very little dialogue on this page. The backstory was already explained so I think it was important to get straight into the action. (FYI – The story was scripted for 8 pages so it’s time to build up to the climax!) All completed pages will be collated in the […]

The letter here is more a foreshadow device that will link up the story in the end. As much as Lana’s cases are trivial and fun, they still have to make sense, right? I actually talked to the penciller Sean a little about of page, I love the way the sexy montage sequence turned out! […]

Similar to Page 2, I was envisioning a similar layout especially for a webcomic. However if this was for print, I would do a mirror image (with the long panel on the right side) so when you opened Page 2 and 3, it would look reversed. In terms of story writing, I actively wanted to […]

The second page of the collaboration with Sean Harrington. The page Sean did is absolutely perfect! (Hopefully my instructions made sense.) I was thinking of the best way to construct the page, to make it easiest to understand this was a “flashback” and still ground it in the conversation between Lana and the chief in […]

I approached previous featured artist Sean Harrington with a pitch for his webcomic Spying with Lana. My basic storyline is our heroine, Lana is being stalked by a mysterious brunette. Over the next few weeks, there will be additional pages added as the story unfolds. Each page will include a full script breakdown so you […]

Interview with the creator Vitor Cafaggi. A double strip! I couldn’t split this one up into 2 weeks as this was Peter’s first forage into photography! Love any strip that Mary Jane makes an appearance.

Dusk follows Eve and her vampire benefactor, Ash through a dark underworld. The graphic novel is divided into four volumes written by David Doub and pencilled by several artists. Can you provide a brief synopsis? What’s Eve role in the story? Eve’s original concern was holding her marriage together, despite the abuse she endured at […]

Following on from narratives in comics comes an important topic, the plot. This is what moves the characters in the story along and is the basis of most literary work. plot (noun) 1. Also called storyline. the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, such as a play, novel, or short […]