by Frank Miller
SHOWING MOVEMENT
I was talking to my brother about writing scripts for comics and mentioned that I sometimes forget that what I'm writing can't move. I'd start accidentally writing as if it were a movie script, with characters moving around, then realize that I ...

Showing Movement in Comics
Banes at 12:00AM, Nov. 17, 2022CREATOR PROFILE: John Byrne
Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 15, 2022
JOHN BYRNE
When I first became seriously interested in comics, John Byrne was at the top of my favorite artist list. He drew many of the classic “new” X-Men books, and was the artist on that series when it first became massively popular. The stories Byrne drew (and co-plotted along ...
Uncompressed Storytelling
Banes at 12:00AM, Nov. 5, 2020
stretchin' out them stories!
I think I first heard the phrase “uncompressed storytelling” via the great John Byrne, comic artist and writer, and man of very strong opinions. He was criticizing some other writer or comic series (I don't remember which one) about hinting at stories that wouldn't ...
Chris Claremont
Banes at 12:00AM, April 9, 2020
Classic X-men reprinted the Chris Claremont stories and included new Claremont stories A+
Chris Claremont is one of the all-time greats in comic book writing, and probably my favorite comics writer.
He's most famous for working on the Uncanny X-Men series from the 1970's to the early 1990 ...
Move It
Banes at 12:00AM, May 16, 2019
by Frank Miller
SHOWING MOVEMENT
I was talking to my brother about writing scripts for comics and mentioned that I sometimes forget that what I'm writing can't move. I'd start accidentally writing as if it were a movie script, with characters moving around, then realize that I ...