the craft: the medium and the message
Totally forgot to mention yesterday that there’s a new installment of THE CRAFT at Scryptic. Boo.
Anyway, this time around, I talk a bit about the importance of using your chosen medium to its full potential:
Have you ever read a comic book and wondered why the creator(s) bothered to write it as a comic?
The strength of the story is not at issue, here. There are lots of tightly written, compelling stories that consist of things like guys in suits (not the superhero kind, mind) or people having heart-to-hearts in cars. I’m just not convinced that they should be comic books.
If you’re not going to use any comics-specific motifs or constructs, why write your story as a comic?
SPX and Llewellyn deadlines loom, so I’m taking a cycle off from the column. Next one will go live on Sept. 6.
Can you guys believe that I’ve been writing these for four months now? Me neither…
