Josh Hechinger Archives

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. Speaking of learning, it's not all superfights and genre exercises in this merry medium of comicky books Sometimes, people remember that "comics[...]

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 tackle one[...]

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. The new Mad Max is getting rave reviews, or at least word of mouth, so I thought I might take a look[...]

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. I don't usually do comics that dropped the same week that I write this column, mostly out of my own ill-defined feeling[...]

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. Some credit for this week's installment should go to Bleeding Cool's own Adi Tantimedh, whose Look! It Moves! column on Assassination Classroom convinced me to finally give that series a shot. But[...]

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 blew up[...]

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. Having done ten of these now, I've decided to turn my gaze Inward, seeking greater knowledge through self-exami—nah, I just thought it'd be interesting to try to derive a[...]

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 seen some[...]

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. By the time all y'all read this, I'll have moved to my new jawn in Philly; well, Roxborough, which ain't Philly proper, but is conveniently located up a giant hill, so I'll get[...]

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. Now, I've been trying to hop around various types of comics with these so, and here's where I sell European comics profoundly short by just doing a bit on Judge Dredd: in my[...]

It's Josh Hechinger again, here with another installment of everyone's favorite public writing exercise, From Strip to Script.  I'll take a finished page of comics by someone else, and try to reverse engineer the script for it, either in my preferred style, or in a different script style (full-script, plot-first, etc.) I'm not much of a[...]

By Josh Hechinger So, here's a writing exercise: take a finished page of comics by someone else, and try to reverse engineer the script for it, either in your style, or in a different script style (full-script, plot-first, etc.) Last time, I did a page from the first comic I ever read, Uncanny X-Men # 295 As[...]

By Josh Hechinger I want to say I first heard about this writing exercise in one Matt Fraction interview or another: you take a finished page of a comic, and write a script from it It's a kind of reverse engineering; you're taking a page that works and trying to figure out how you would've achieved[...]