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Film Courage: Steve, we had a question come in from one of our viewers Zach6677 and Zach’s question is:
What are the various methods of designing a comic strip? Is the Marvel method actually recommended?
Stephen L. Stern, Comic Book Author/President of Storyboard Graphic Novels: That’s a heavy duty question.
The Marvel method typically means that the writer just kind of writes a synopsis and that the artist lays the story out right. This goes back to Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Stan the writer, Jack basically the artist, although Jack also did write some stuff right.
The story goes that Stan would give kind of a synopsis and outline to Jack and then Jack would lay the whole thing out. Then Stan would just plug the dialogue and the captions in. I know this for a fact that is correct because I knew Stan Lee. That’s another long serendipitous story by the way, but in any event there’s no one answer to the best way to write a comic book or graphic novel.
I could spend hours trying to explain various techniques whether you start with a synopsis and then hand that to an artist à la the Marvel style or do you like what DC the Superman Batman company…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
About:
Stephen L. Stern is the president of Storyboard Graphic Novels. Steve is best known as the creator/writer of the indie comic-book Zen Intergalactic Ninja that has sold over three million comics and graphic novels and been licensed for video games, action figures and numerous other products. He is also the creator of Shygirl and Frickin’ Butt-Kickin’ Zombie Ants, and the author of Beowulf: The Graphic Novel and the A Christmas Carol Graphic Novel, both published by the UK’s Markosia. His other works include Alien Hero, a collection of novellas and stories about Zen, and the upcoming Majestic Comics Graphic Novel. Stern is a native of New York and former advertising agency president with clients including Johnson & Johnson, Rosenthal China and The Singer Company. He lives in Los Angeles, where he launched Storyboard Graphic Novels in 2011, working with several of his longtime friends and associates—who just happen to be some of the highest-profile artists and writers in the industry today.
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