Creating a Graphic Novel : Art – Food – Photography

Some of my initial concept sketches for the piece. The top right showed the layout I envisioned for the page. My main aim was to get the woman’s body angle correct. I was lucky that the initial sketch kind of turned out the way I wanted it to. Decided against using the full body in […]

I had hoped to find a collaborator to do the artwork so I wrote a panel by panel breakdown. Unfortunately I couldn’t find someone to complete the works so I ended up with the pencils. I’ll show the artwork in an upcoming post. What’s in a Sauce? Panel 1 – Long panel. Woman (short spiky […]

The submission was only going to be 1 – 4 pages which meant the story had to be very quick and to the point. More like a comic strip rather than a standard 22 page story. Had a couple of ideas come up but I came down to below three to fit the theme of […]

What am I working on? I’ve completed a submission for a romance comic anthology called TANGO 8. It’s a one page story and I will be posting up the full design process over the next week (including sketches and script). Information The anthology is called TANGO and this particular issue is based around love and […]

Check a recent post of mine: Idiot’s Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel. Now check the comments. I’ll wait . . go check . . . Nat Gertler, author of the book posted a comment on my site!! I have to admit I was a little sceptical that it was actually him to start off […]

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel by Nat Gertler and Steve Lieber is an absolutely instructive read. There are heaps of great pointers even where to get ISBNs from. It’s definitely very very helpful in my dream to “Create a Graphic Novel”. It’s written in a fun and engaging way. I’m still […]

I was actually thinking of writing this post much earlier but I thought it would be better if I left it until the site was a little more developed. Well since I got the layout, banner and email up . . I think the time is now. The below information is covered in the link […]

Was reading Writing for Comics with Peter David again last night. It does offer insights into crafting a good story! One point which I think was important is to arrange the story to make every page a mini-cliffhanger. As the writer you have to make your readers want to turn the next page. I highly […]

What is the dream? What do I love? COMICS! I feel I have a lot of stories to tell and comics are the medium I want to express my stories in. However it’s often very difficult to “break” into the creative field and the comic industry is notoriously difficult to get into! No matter as […]