CassiopeiaQuinn

WiP 6/26/17

Added 2017-06-26 19:48:05 +0000 UTC

There are a lot of ways a page can come together for a comic when a writer and artists are teaming up. With us, generally, it means that I write a script with a very specific number of panels, very specific dialogue beats, and exact instructions about every last image. Then Psu takes that and mostly draws it as written, but adjusts how things look to make more sense, because I'm not the best visual storyteller in this duo and I know it.

Another way some people are into is just kind of writing an outline for what needs to happen in the story, either page-by-page or as a whole outline, which the artist then works from - so that the writer can come back and drop dialogue into it. That's an oldschool method, popular in the days when Stan Lee was working with some of the best and fastest artists ever to churn out comics.

This time we kind of skewed towards the second one while trying to do the first. My script was okay, in terms of dialogue and what was happening, but the layout was just not working. I wasn't giving the characters room to "act." Psu asked to sketch out a layout that felt righter, and I think it really works. Space was left for the dialogue I wanted, although it'll change now to fit the images better.

This is the kind of collaboration that people normally have to work in the same studio for. But we can review each others' work live from far apart. Hooray, internet!