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 Post subject: Marvel Style versus Full Script?
PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 3:10 pm 
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Over on the CBR boards you mentioned that your Amazing Spider-Man 3-parter with Lee Weeks is plotted and that he's drawn the first issue and is working on the second. This made me curious about which process you use. Are you working Marvel-style (plot/art/script) on this or doing full scripts? And do you generally work one way or the other, or change it depending on the artist?

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 Post subject: Marvel Style versus Full Script?
PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:15 am 
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Monk wrote:
Over on the CBR boards you mentioned that your Amazing Spider-Man 3-parter with Lee Weeks is plotted and that he's drawn the first issue and is working on the second. This made me curious about which process you use. Are you working Marvel-style (plot/art/script) on this or doing full scripts? And do you generally work one way or the other, or change it depending on the artist?


I work "Marvel-style" almost exclusively, although that style really predates Marvel Comics. (Murphy Anderson told me that he worked from Jerry Siegel's plots when they were producing Lars of Mars at Fiction House.)

Since comics is always a collaborative effort -- at least it is for those of us who can't draw -- I've found that plotting a story and then scripting from the penciled pages produces a better story.

I have written some stories full script, most notably the two-page Superman strip for ACTION COMIC WEEKLY. But in that case I was working with the great Curt Swan, who knew the form forwards and backwards.

Oddly enough, MARVELS: EYE OF THE CAMERA was also written full script. Go figure.

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 Post subject: Marvel Style versus Full Script?
PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:18 pm 
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Not another Lars of Mars reference.

Can we have just one Lars-free thread around here?


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 Post subject: Marvel Style versus Full Script?
PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:20 pm 
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RobertSwanderson wrote:
Not another Lars of Mars reference.

Can we have just one Lars-free thread around here?


But...but...he's an incredible crusader from another world! It says so right here...

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 Post subject: Marvel Style versus Full Script?
PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:59 pm 
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Jesus. I think I like Anderson's old art even better than his Silver/Bronze stuff.


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PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 6:31 pm 
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That art really is beautiful.


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 Post subject: Marvel Style versus Full Script?
PostPosted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:09 am 
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RobertSwanderson wrote:
Jesus. I think I like Anderson's old art even better than his Silver/Bronze stuff.


Shut yo' mouff!

Murph has been producing beautiful art all his life...

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:28 am 
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Wow... that John Carter image is amazing.


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 8:47 am 
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Uncle Twitchy wrote:
Wow... that John Carter image is amazing.


Yeah, Murph can draw Tharks better than anybody.

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