Comic Scripts - Examples

On a recent episode of Making Comics, Scott and I got a question on what comic scripts look like. To the point of that episode, here are two examples of scripts. The first example comes in Volume 2 of Kodoja, by which time Rory Smith and I had developed a relaxed working relationship. Things to note here are the lack of panel direction - specifically the sentence ‘Take most of this page to establish him walking through the airport with very few people around.’ Below this page you can see the result.

This next example comes from the third volume of Kodoja. Rory moved on to a series of jobs in animation (now works for Disney) and the artist on the book, Alberto Palazzo, preferred more direction. That direction is visible in multiple places - first, the panel-by-panel direction (size of the panel on the page) and recommended shot (such as close shot or wide shot). There’s also a writing component here, as instead of turning dialogue in and waiting for results, I edited dialogue when necessary (since I did the lettering).

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