Be a Super Storyteller 4 Tips from the Pros 6 Creating Characters 9 Telling Your Story 13 Putting It All Together 16 Glossary 22 For More Information 23 Index 24 About the Author 24 Table of Contents ChaPter one ChaPter two ChaPter three ChaPter four ChaPter five 3
Be a Super Storyteller When was the last time you read a comic book Comic books are a great way of telling interesting stories They can contain a lot of words or be totally wordless They can be funny or sad Some are printed in color Others are in black and white Comics can tell fictional stories They can also detail real-life events All comic books use pictures The pictures are arranged in an order that tells a story or expresses thoughts and feelings Writing a comic book allows you to make up interesting characters and places It also lets you tell weird and wonderful stories The sky is the limit when you are a comic book writer ChaPter one 4
A WORD BALLOON CONTAINS THE DIALOGUE THAT A CHARACTER SPEAKS A CAPTION IS uSED fOR NARRATION OR WORDS THAT ARE uSED TO HELP TELL THE STORy CAPTIONS uSuALLy HAvE RECTANguLAR BORDERS A THOugHT BALLOON CONTAINS THOugHTS A CHARACTER DOES NOT SPEAK POW Lettering is any text on a comic book page Most comic book lettering is uppercase bold lettering is used to emphasize important words Large lettering is used to indicate shouting Small lettering is used to indicate whispering A word balloon contains the dialogue that a character speaks It has a tail that points to the speaker Word balloons come in all shapes and sizes Sound effects represent noises in a scene Most sound effects are floating letters A thought balloon contains thoughts a character does not speak The tail looks like a trail of bubbles Panel a single image in a sequence of images Border a line that encloses panels balloons and captions Gutter the space between and around panels 5
