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Every comic book writer brings their own format and style to the task. Here's examples from some of the top names showing how they do it, including a Neil Gaiman script for Miracleman, a drawn script by Jeff Smith, a Jay & Silent Bob comic book script by filmmaker Kevin Smith, a script for Marvel's Deathlok from Milestone Media cofounder Dwayne McDuffie, a plot from Blade and Cyborg co-creator Marv Wolfman, a GoGirl! script by Eisner Hall Of Famer Trina Robbins, a Greg Rucka script from the Eisner Award-winning Whiteout: Melt, and a script by Eisner Award nominee Nat Gertler paired with the finished art by Eisner winner Steve Lieber. These sample scripts make a great resource for aspiring comic writers to learn from, for aspiring artists to learn what to expect, and for those who are just curious about how it's done. Anything you've ever wanted to know about comic scriptwriting is in here -- Savant It's an attractive package put together by comics writer Nat Gertler, and it's welcome, indeed. GRADE: A -- Comics Buyer's Guide There aren't many books that pass for "invaluable references" in our field, but this qualifies. -- Steven Grant's Permanent Damage
Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith is a Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, where he earned his Ph.D. He is the author of two books: The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film
Music (1998) and Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist: Reading the Hollywood Reds (2014). He has also published several articles and book chapters on the role of sound and music in American cinema. He is currently at work on a book that traces development of the classical Hollywood film score during the 1930s that examines how studios allocated musical resources to films based on their position within the hierarchy of prestige pictures, programmers, and "B" films.
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Neil Gaiman
NEIL GAIMAN was awarded the Newbery and Carnegie Medals for The Graveyard Book. His other books for younger readers include Coraline (which was made into an Academy-Award-nominated film) and The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (which wasn’t). Born in England, he has won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. You can learn more at www.mousecircus.com.
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