Comic Books As A Visual Medium

Part of the Video Series How to Make Your Own Comic Book

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Learn why it is important to know that comics are a visual medium and how to take advantage of that in this free instructional video on graphic art.

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Comic Books As A Visual Medium
Hello! On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Dan Head and today we are going to talk about how to self publish your own comic or graphic novel. Okay, comics are a visual media. So if you want to write comics, the most important thing to understand about comics is that they are inherently visual. It is not like writing pros where you need to get inside the character's head. Comics are partially a literally medium so maybe we can get inside a character's head. They work when they explode off the page. For example something like 300 which is Frank Miller's favorite work as you can see is visual. You get a lot of story telling imagery just in two giant solid images. When comics work they work because you give the artist a chance to blow it off the page and show what he can do.

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Expert: Dan Head is a veteran writer and small press comic publisher. He wrote and self-published his first graphic novel, Bronx Angel: Politics By Another Method, in 2005. Read More