I love comics and graphic novels and I have narrative work beside my story "Mt Auburn Night" in my sketchbooks. I have work that is scanned and ready for polish. Then it will be presented as comics.
Although I have read tons of comics I am a newbie to writing and drawing them. I have found that most of the comics that I have worked on have little or no words. Thinking about this I realize that I feel self-conscious writing dialog. Now I am working on using dialog and text for story telling. Most of the stories I have made I preferred to use only pictures to tell the story. However, I find it not enough to not use pictures without words. I am still working on my process writing and drawing narratives. I tend to draw lots of pages only to return to them later for edit after edit in order to make the story more clear. This is frustrating when the final edit stage happens and there are drawings that do not get used. I need to concern myself with story first. It seems the visual narrative has a flow that reads well when edited. When I write down the story with pictures and words there is usually more than is needed. During the editing phase I ask myself why didn't I think of that in the first place.
In reference to graphic storytelling Here are some things I have been recently reading:
Stephen King: On Writing a Memoir of the Craft
Grant Morrison: Supergods What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
Here are two samples of comics I am working on.
Darth Vader vs Abe Lincoln. (Hopefully I won't get an angry note for this one from Lucas Arts...) I just intended this as a parody. Before now I have not ever made an attempt at fan art.
The Adventures of Jack Maggot
Jack Maggot is a deviant who lives in a world with zombies,underground chambers and vampires. I want to create a supernatural world for him to live in. The story is based on a dream I had. Now I am putting work in to fill in more of the story for the characters.
None of the artwork is ready to post yet. I am still editing the pages that I have.
Here is the thumbnail sketch of the story. I have 6 pages inked and ready for cleanup on the computer.
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