Comic book freelancing tools and resources
This week’s piece is all about understanding who does what in a comic book. There are numerouspeople involved in making a comic book happen so we’ll going to list out some of the major ones for you. Typically in the credits of a book, especially superhero comics, you’ll see a number of creators listed. You may…
Artist Jenn St. Onge and myself got to talking about comic conventions and the diversity of the invited guests. For many shows, the gaps are pretty staggering, and we got to wondering about how we could help fix that. Our solution was to create a database of women, trans, and non-binary creators working in the…
We had a chance to chat with creator extraordinaire, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou to ask him some questions about lettering and what his process is like. Hassan is a comic book letterer on such works as Shanghai Red, Red Sonja, Lone Ranger, Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt, Black Mage, and more. He is also the Eisner-nominated editor of PanelxPanel, is a…
Jimmy Palmiotti recently started a hashtag in an effort to help creators get advice from other comic creators based on their experiences in the industry. So maybe we can give back a little. This hashtag #newcreatoradvice would be a good thing to use if you are an established creator and have advice for the new…
Making Money from Webcomics – An Illustrated Guide is a product of the joint effort of an international group of webcomics artists, Finnish comics makers and the funding from Kone Foundation. I started the project two years ago and in August 2018 a bunch of webcomics artists traveled to Finland for a joint two-week artist residency….
Stephanie asked me to expand a bit on the article on my web site, fredvanlente.com, which talks about how (I find) to best format a comics script. While there’s no standard method of comics script format, this is what I, a 20-year veteran of the industry (give or take), find works best. I’ve been pleased…
We’ve had many requests to expand our content for comic book editors (freelance and otherwise). Editing in comics can be pretty extensive, especially for those who oversee the artwork and the scheduling as well (we’ll touch on this in another post later). As an editor in comics, it’s equally important to have a contract established…
