One Eno (Comic Script)

A short four page psychological comic strip, based upon the story "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" and written in the style of a 2000AD Future Shock (a short 4/5-page comic strip with a twist ending). I hope you like

I don't believe that I've ever read a comic script before so I thought I'd definitely have a look.

And I did. It's very good, I could easily visualize what was going on. Very well written

Tevs wrote:A short four page psychological comic strip, based upon the story "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" and written in the style of a 2000AD Future Shock (a short 4/5-page comic strip with a twist ending). I hope you like

One Eno
http://iriffexperiment.webs.com/One%20Eno%20Shortened%20Finished.pdf

HI Tev.
Your format is wrong. You can download free software form Celtx. It's what I use and it's excellent for script formatting.
http://celtx.com/

writingmum wrote:HI Tev.
Your format is wrong. You can download free software form Celtx. It's what I use and it's excellent for script formatting.
http://celtx.com/

I've put a lot of research into comic book scripts before I started writing them, and there isn't acutally one standard way of writing a comic book script. There are rules that the comic script has to obey, but there's an extreme amount of flexibility when it comes to their actual form, with the various ways of comic book script formatting pretty much changing from writer to writer.

For example, here are three Batman comic scripts*. They are scripts for the same genre and format, feature the same main character and were all bought, paid for and published by the same publishing company, DC Comics.

http://www.comicbookscriptarchive.com/goods/andydiggle/BatmanROE1.pdf
http://comicbookscriptarchive.com/goods/chuckdixon/batman571.doc
http://comicbookscriptarchive.com/goods/devingrayson/gothamknightsscript.doc

The formatting of these three scripts could not be more different. Comic publishers will usually have rules that the scripts must adhere too (for example, 2000AD want the descriptions of each individual panel to be obviously separated from each other so it's easy to tell where one panel starts and another ends, as well as requiring the speech in the comic to be separated from the descriptions of the panel visuals and for one of them to be in capslock and the other to not be**) but oher than that, it's largely just up to the style that the writer just thinks works best. I've spent a long time messing about with comic formats, and the script format you see in my story is what I think works best but also complies to the 2000AD Future Shock specifications.

And I have used Celtx in the past for my film/TV scripts, and have tried their comic book template. I don't like using it though, I much prefer using my method of formatting to the way Celtx does it. Of course, that's just personal preference for how you write. It's not that I'm wrong with the script format so much as there isn't a right way of actually writing a comic script.

And I'm glad to know that you liked it Johnstone. Thanks for the comments, both of you

* Comic scripts thanks to http://www.comicbookscriptarchive.com/
** Full 2000AD specifications for submissions available here: http://www.2000adonline.com/submissions

HI Tev
Yeah, okay.
Learn something new every day...
Cheers
Wendy