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Film Courage: How do you start writing a comic book?
Donald F. Glut, Writer, Film Director, and Screenwriter: I usually come up with a title first. Last night I got an email from a publisher friend of mine who says he’s starting up a new comic and he has a color cover illustration, can I write a story in five pages based on that cover illustration. Then I have to figure it out and figure it and figure it out. There’s certain things he wants in that story. I won’t say what they are because maybe something else is wrong with the story but certain story elements. I’ve got to figure out how to fit those story elements into a five-page story that includes the cover. When I write these stories for these magazines (I regularly write for now Shudder and Vampirus Carmilla) frequently the artist will get a hold of a great cover painting that he wants to use and he calls me, Can you write a story based on this cover? Sometimes the cover has a lot of images. Recently he sent me one, it was…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Donald F. Glut has been active in both the entertainment and publishing industries since 1966. Don has had a long and varied career. He has been a professional musician, actor, film director, executive producer, photographer, magazine editor, proofreader and (very briefly, for an advertising agency) copywriter, but is mostly known for his long career as a freelance writer. He has written and directed feature-length motion pictures, documentaries and music videos, authored approximately 80 fiction and non-fiction published books, myriad TV scripts (live action and animation shows, network and syndicated), comic-book scripts, short stories, magazine articles, even music and theatre. He has been involved with numerous popular franchises such as Star Wars, The Monkees, Tarzan, Spider-Man, Transformers, G.I. Joe, Vampirella, Masters of the Universe, The Flintstones, Jonny Quest and many others, and created original comic-book characters for Gold Key, Marvel and DC.
Arguably Don is best known for his novelization of the second “Star Wars” movie The Empire Strikes Back (#1 Best Seller). Don currently executive-produces, writes and directs “traditional-style” horror for his company Pecosborn Productions, and writes scripts for The Creeps horror comics magazine. Also, he is a Southern California representative of Las Vegas Talent Agency. Note: Any motion picture titles that may be listed prior to Dinosaur Valley Girls (1997) are of amateur movies, the first of 41 of which Don Glut made when he was nine years old.
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