judgeanon:

davizlopez:

THIS IS IMPORTANT!

It’s impossible to stress how important this is. But here’s a good example:

2000 AD, the British sci-fi/fantasy anthology that publishes Judge Dredd among a hundred other awesome series, has an open doors policy for submissions of “Future Shocks”, done-in-one four page stories with a final twist. And while it’s not mandatory, in their submissions page they suggest using no more than five-six panels per page, with no more than three word balloons per panel, and no more than twenty five words per balloon.

And once you get past the first “Ok, so 75 words per panel, gotcha” stage, it becomes an absolute godsend for starting writers. By the third script you write like that there’ll be exactly zero fat left. Every word counts, every panel counts, and because it’s just four pages, you can churn out drafts and edit them in much less time than it’d take a full 23 page issue, let alone a massive graphic novel.

So yeah, anyone starting on comics, or literature of any kind: start with short stories. Start and finish them. Four, eight, ten or twelve pagers, whatever. But do them. Finish them. And never stop doing it.