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By Josh Hechinger Welcome to From Strip to Script, where I take a page of finished comic art and try to derive a script from it, to see what I can learn from the exercise. If you are or were ever into the superhero sorts in comics, I'm willing to bet you have some less […]

By Josh Hechinger Welcome to From Strip to Script, where I take a page of finished comic art and try to derive a script from it, to see what I can learn from the exercise. Now, for every reinterpretation of a superhero character that becomes the definitive version (anyone from the modern Captain Marvel to […]

By Josh Hechinger Welcome to From Strip to Script, where I take a page of finished comic art and try to derive a script from it, to see what I can learn from the exercise. Hi, guess who's still hung up on examining comic strips? Yeah, buddy, it's me. I forget if I went into […]

By Josh Hechinger Welcome to From Strip to Script, where I take a page of finished comic art and try to derive a script from it, to see what I can learn from the exercise. While I didn't read it at the time, I do remember this iteration of Plastic Man coming out waybackwhen; I […]

By Josh Hechinger Welcome to From Strip to Script, where I take a page of finished comic art and try to derive a script from it, to see what I can learn from the exercise. "Castrated and suffering from having accidentally killed his own son, Othon von Salza turns his back on pure martial arts…" […]

By Josh Hechinger Welcome to From Strip to Script, where I take a page of finished comic art and try to derive a script from it, to see what I can learn from the exercise. Happy belated Memorial Day, if that was a thing you observed. I'm using it as an (admittedly thin) excuse to […]

By Josh Hechinger Welcome to From Strip to Script, where I take a page of finished comic art and try to derive a script from it, to see what I can learn from the exercise. Sometimes…not always, but sometimes…it's kind of pretty easy to figure out what this thing should be about this week, even […]

By Josh Hechinger Welcome to From Strip to Script, where I take a page of finished comic art and try to derive a script from it. I've been on an XCOM kick (again), recently. For an IRL pacifist, I do seem to endlessly return to military-sci-fi games as comfort food: XCOM, sorta-kinda Resident Evil, Mass […]

By Josh Hechinger Welcome to From Strip to Script, where I take a page of finished comic art and try to derive a script from it. Partly on a whim, partly because it was on sale at the time, but largely because I've still got something about Japanese superheroes percolating in the back of my […]

By Josh Hechinger Welcome to the latest installment of From Strip to Script, where I take a crack at reverse engineering a script from a finished page of someone else's comics. For the last couple pieces, I've been working my way through my Four Comics choices. This'll be the last one of those, and frankly, […]

By Josh Hechinger Welcome once more to From Strip to Script, where I take a shot at reverse-engineering a script from a finished page of someone else's comic. Did y'all catch that #fourcomics wave on Twitter? Jim Zub asked the Internet to name four comics that influenced them growing up, and the whole thing kinda […]

By Josh Hechinger Welcome once more to From Strip to Script, where I reverse-engineer a script from a finished page of someone else's comic. I just wrapped up the excellent Samurai Flamenco cartoon (kind of a Kick-Ass for Japanese superheroes, except sincerely in love with heroes and what heroism can inspire in people), so I've […]

By Josh Hechinger Welcome once more to From Strip to Script, where I reverse-engineer a script from a finished page of someone else's comic. So, last time, we tackled the wily double-page spread. This time, I want to take a swing at…hmm. You know, I'm not actually sure what to call the majority of this […]

By Josh Hechinger Welcome once more to From Strip to Script, where I reverse-engineer a script from a finished page of someone else's comic. I've never quiiiite gotten the hang of writing double-page spreads. I don't hate them as a reader, but as a writer, they're just not a tool I particularly enjoy using. I've […]

By Michele Brittany If you are an aspiring comic book writer, then opportunity is knocking at your door. Now through Wednesday, October 22, Darby Pop is holding a contest to find the best script for a one-shot issue. Darby Pop, whose titles are distributed through IDW, is looking for an aspiring writer who will spin […]