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How to Write Comic Strips
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How to Write Comic Strips

A Quick Guide on Writing Funny Gags and Comic Strip Panels
Created byHowExpert
Last updated 9/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • How to Write Comic Strips

Course content

1 section • 12 lectures • 1h 31m total length

  • Welcome0:15

    Learn to write comic strips with a quick guide on crafting funny gags and panel layouts from how expert press John Socor, narrated by Matthias J.

  • Part 1 - How Do I Actually Write a Comic?30:26

    Find your comic's niche, write what you know, and select formats from single to interactive panels, with memorable main and support characters.

  • Part 2 - You Sure I Can Do This? I'm Not Trained In Writing Or Humor...6:18

    Believe you can write a comic strip; cultivate humor with persistence, practice, magazines, and syndicates. The path you take can build your voice and help you earn money.

  • Part 3 - Wait, I Can Learn To Be Funny Or Funnier! How?9:44

    Practice writing gag after gag to improve, embracing ten thousand hours and accepting humor as subjective; early gags can become gold with revision. Read comics and humor to learn structure.

  • Part 4 - Any Tools You Use To Write Funny?6:38

    Discover practical tools to write funny, including rhyme and wordplay, turning sayings into lines, parodying headlines, riffing on life stories, and rewriting cartoons to spark ideas.

  • Part 5 - How Can I Write Better Dialog Or Captions?9:08

    Write snappy, concise dialogue and captions for comics by keeping lines under twenty-five words, reading aloud, and editing in passes while tightening gags.

  • Part 6 - How Do I Work On Descriptions For The Artist5:50

    Foster a 50/50 collaboration with the artist by supplying essential words and a clear word picture, while planning panel cues and emotional cues within limited space.

  • Part 7 - What Do I Do If I Have Writers Block?6:37

    Combat writer's block by free writing at the keyboard to spark cartoon gags, then refresh with breaks, music, walks, shower time, doodling, or light exercise like weights.

  • Part 8 - How Do I Find An Artist?3:07

    Find artists through comic art and freelancer sites, spell out credits and payment upfront, and assess fit via concept submissions and clear collaboration terms, including a 50/50 split.

  • Part 9 - Why Would I Want To Do This? Isn't This a Tough Field To Break Into?5:40

    Navigate the challenges of breaking into the comic strip field, including competition and shrinking newspapers. Discover opportunities through syndication, web ads, merchandise, and freelance work.

  • Part 10 - Extra Hints4:50

    Persist through rejection and use feedback while showing up every day, then combine familiar themes with fresh spins to generate accessible comic gags.

  • Part 11 - Extra: What Other People Think Of As Funny2:38

    Explore how humor is diverse and subjective, with examples of malapropisms, puns, wordplay, and misapplied words, plus how different personalities react to the same situation.

Requirements

  • None

Description

“How to Write Comic Strips” is a step-by-step guide to help inspiring comic strip writers create their own comic. This guide leads the reader through the wondrous world of comic writing.

The concept of humor is different for different people. The author shows the reader methods and tips to better understand and deal with these differences.

Highlights of this guide include:

1) The many formats to choose from when writing a comic:

• Single Panel

• Multi-Panel

2) How find your concept:

• Write what you know

3) How to develop and build great characters:

• Bios, Backstory and More

4) Ways to write funny yet tight gags:

• How many passes to make

• Refining your words

5) Methods and tips to use to break out of writer’s block:

• Fun exercises and routines to do

6) How to find and communicate with your artist:

• Learn how to become a team

7) Market places for your comic:

• How to find a home for your creation

8) New ways to sell and make money from comics:

• Expanding and new markets so you can make money

9) Helpful tips:

• Tricks learned after decades in the trade

About the Expert

Writes his own syndicated comic Working Daze by Universal Press. Art by Scott Roberts. Each day the comic is viewed by around 250K people. Also writes Maria’s day for Universal.

Wrote gags for Tonight Show, Joan Rivers show, Chevy Chase show and literally hundreds of comics and magazine. Has sold well over 10K gags.

Simpsons and Fairly Odd Parents and Jimmy Neutron comics.

Rugrats comic strip for a year.

A seven book humorous, sf, mystery series for Daw books and Penguin Putnam featuring a futuristic PI Zachary Nixon Johnson and his holographic assistant HARV.

The series will continue on a small press. Pro Se Productions.

The series as The Nuclear Bombshell series has been quite successful as Graphic Audio, Audio Books.

Currently writing two successful middle readers for KC Global Enterprises: Diary of a Super Girl (which remains in the kindle top 10 in class for the year) and the new Adventures of the Once and Future Queen.

Writer of numerous video games and apps. Space Run Galaxy being the most fun. Beat the Boss and Tap Titians and Driving Trump being the biggest sellers. Apps and games have had millions of downloads and purchases. (You would think he’d be richer.)

Looks like he has stuff coming in Mad in 2018ish.

The only person ever to finish in the top three of DC comics Zuda contest four times without ever winning the contest.

Who this course is for:

  • Writer, Comic Strips Writer, Anyone who wants to write comic strips

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