NaGraNoWriMo Day #1: Writing Resources

by Marc Alan Fishman on October 1st, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Posted In: News

Are you in for National Graphic Novel Writing Month? We hope so. And because we’re generous people, we thought we’d give you some reading material to help you start on your masterpiece.

The books above could be considered the holy trinity to the world of sequential art. Scott McCloud presents how to write and build a comic book, by deconstructing the art form into its basic principles and components. We can’t recommend this books enough. And once you get through those, consider:

Before Scott McCloud, there was Will Eisner… the legend that spawned an industry. If you don’t know who Will is… we recommend you just buy these books now and thank us later. And if you’ve finished these, why not take a gander at:

Living legends in their own rights, this trio of books could be considered the followup courses after you’ve polished off both Eisner and McCould’s contributions. All of these books will help you, and are available at decent comic
book stores, through your local library, or by following the links to
purchase through Amazon.

After you’ve boned up on your structure, have your basic plot in mind, and your word doc opened… why not get a graphic novel that gives you access to the final working script, so you can compare structures! We recommend:

We also have to point to the excellent work of Tim Simmons and the Comic Book Script Archive, where you can see a number of scripts in various styles and levels of development. (We’ll probably have a few more to add by the time we’re done.)

What books do you recommend? Sound off in the comments.