Info: Graphic Novels and Comic Books

Some fantastic perspectives and insight in these two posts yesterday — here and here. Some posters provided links for more information.

Tom Murphy provided these:

Scott McCloud

Will Eisner

Comic: The Most Versatile Art Form

Atlanta posted these:

Story length in comics, 60s to present day

Wally Wood’s 22 frames that always work

Well done comic pitch submitted to DC

Via email James sent me this:

Over at www.projectfanyboy.com > in the Forums section under > Columns > Archives is a section called > Comic Pro Prep. This houses a host of information on writing comicbooks as well as some indepth analysis about film vs comics and common mistakes made going from one media to the next. There’s ~20 articles or so. It’s worth taking a look.

What other resources can GITS readers recommend for writers interested in learning more about graphic novels and comic books?

And to those who prefer to use “TPB” (Trade Paperback or just Trade), why that instead of comic books or graphic novels?

For general background, here is the link to the Wikipedia page on “graphic novels.”

And here for “comic books.”

Again thanks to all who have contributed to this conversation!

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