--- On Thu, 22/10/09, jynxtherat <jynxtherat_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>I have a story and would like to have it made into a comic book. Can you >or do you know somebody who would be able to help me?
>
Greetings Jynx.
Aelius, a member of this group, can probably tell you some of the steps you need to go through and how you need to 'adjust' stories to make them work as comics - his web comic Jewel Vixens was fairly successful. He's currently after an artist to continue the story.
http://www.jewelvixens.com/
Chatting with Tokes (cartoon art teacher, story board illustrator for movie Queen of the Damned, former Marvel colourist), he said there is pretty much two ways to convert a story, such as a novel, into a comic. You can either write the story as a script, with each panel having a description of the scene, character placement (often sketched out with stick figures) and dialogue. Or you leave the layout and design up to the artist, requiring them to do all the interpretation for you. Tokes mentioned the writer will often go back and add the dialogue later. Attracting an artist who is willing to do this will usually take money, though if you are prepared to fund having the cartoon published, this can attract artists.
Paul Kidd (author of numerous furry stories and writer of many movie scripts) has a cartoon called Spooky And Tinkle that he writes, but another artist draws. I haven't asked him how he scripts his stories for this cartoon, though I suspect he uses the 'screenplay script' system.
http://spookyandtinkle.purehubris.com/
Not to put you off, but it may be you will have to re-write a large quantity of your work. Not that you are a bad writer, just what you have written may not be in a suitable format to easily translate into scenes. I'm a fair short story writer (if I do say so myself), but I think I fall quite short of the mark when it comes to writing cartoon scripts. Lack of practise and knowledge of how it should be done probably being my pitfalls.
Another method is similar to the system I used to get people to draw for you. I found most artists so unreliable (often lack of time, motivation, etceteras) or just not wanting to take my commissions that I bit the bullet and started learning to draw things for myself!
Jim may have some suggestions, or maybe searching FA or DA may give a suitable answer. Reminds me - Aelius was talking of making a 'dead tree' version of Jewel Vixens - wonder how that is going...
Best of luck and realisations for your project!
Scrapper, Black Dragon, who hasn't got his heart behind his artwork sufficiently to take on doing a cartoon.
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Received on Wed Oct 21 2009 - 17:54:54 CDT