{"id":784,"date":"2010-05-27T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/05\/27\/book-report-panel-one-comic-book-scripts-by-top-writers\/"},"modified":"2010-05-27T07:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T14:01:00","slug":"book-report-panel-one-comic-book-scripts-by-top-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/05\/27\/book-report-panel-one-comic-book-scripts-by-top-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Panel One: Comic Book Scripts by Top Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/S_3eRFPZ3zI\/AAAAAAABAxw\/NkR9l9Y6RBI\/s1600\/panelonecover.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/S_3eRFPZ3zI\/AAAAAAABAxw\/NkR9l9Y6RBI\/s320\/panelonecover.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m not calling this a &#8220;comic book report&#8221; because, even though it is a collection of comic book scripts, it is not itself a comic book.  <i>Did I just blow your mind?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Anyway.  It&#8217;s very instructive to see how differently every writer approaches his or her script; as Nat Gertler says in his introduction, comic book scripts are direct lines between writers and artists, and each particular relationship influences the way that communication works.  Sometimes it reads like a story pitch, and sometimes it&#8217;s all visual descriptions.  There&#8217;s not a single &#8220;correct&#8221; or standard way to write these things.<\/p>\n<p>I was highly amused by the fact that Greg Rucka felt the need to include actual <b>endnotes<\/b> in his script for <i>Whiteout: Melt<\/i>.  Neil Gaiman and Kurt Busiek are brilliant, even in this stripped-down presentation.  And Kevin Smith&#8217;s script is about what you&#8217;d expect.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Buy the book:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/34809\/biblio\/0971633800?p_isbn\">Powell&#8217;s<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=0971633800\/curtiscchensfree\">Amazon<\/a> (affiliate links)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" title=\"CKL\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not calling this a &#8220;comic book report&#8221; because, even though it is a collection of comic book scripts, it is not itself a comic book. Did I just blow your mind? Anyway. It&#8217;s very instructive to see how differently&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[51,62,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-comics","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}