Part of it comes from the frustration of using a word processing program to do scripts (like using a hammer to drive in a screw) and the other part was a similarly shared background with one of the creators Glenn Farrington I used to write computer code during the day and comics at night, Glenn[...]
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But Final Draft is too clumsy for comic books, almost more so than Word and Pages.
I clicked the link to discover that ComiXwriter is a new program concept by Glenn Farrington and Steven Sashen that they've put on Kickstarter to fund They have some great quotes on the site from Alan Grant, Mike Carey and[...]