Funnybook 101

At WonderCon, my pal Nat Gertler was doing a brisk business with his book, Panel One: Comic Book Scripts By Top Writers.  This is a dandy volume for those who ask — as someone seems to do every ten minutes on the Internet — "What does a comic book script look like?"  As you can see in this collection, there are many formats…and there are actually quite a few not represented here.  But you can get a good education on the way nine writers do it, and enjoy their actual words and the descriptions they gave to artists to create nine comic book stories.  It's a great idea and even those of us who write comics can learn a little something by seeing other writers' approaches.

You can purchase the book from Amazon.Com and if you click on that word here, I get a tiny cut.  Or you can scurry over to Nat's website and order it there.  (Nat also has a terrific guide to the books reprinting Mr. Schulz's Peanuts strips.)  Consider this a POVonline recommendation.