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Good video but I gotta say: Ive heard scarier horror stories than "someone else made millions off a comic book I wrote and its now a popular animated series on amazon but I only made a few thousand dollars". How about this for a horror story: You decide NOT to sell your ip. you own it and continue to work blood sweat and tears on it for years. a decade passes. a few hundred people have bought your book. most of them liked it. some of them loved it. by all accounts, a great comic book. Your morning alarm goes off. 6am. you put on your work uniform and the stupid little hat they make you wear. you check your phone. "🎈Happy 40th Birthday🎈". you perk up a little when you remember that its friday which means after work you will finally have a few hours to work on your comic book over the weekend. hopefully you wont be too tired this time.

This channel won’t let me quit, it debunks all of my excuses and shows me a path I can walk. Thank you Mr. Garvey.

6:28 helluvoboss scripts be like

Even though I am tempted to say all new comics are shit, it’s hard to say it because there are some well written and illustrated books, however there is very little NEW stuff happening, no risk just rehashed ideas and pretty pictures. (Very little variety in art styles) What I have to come to believe is that 1) Marvel and DC are corporations that take zero risk and churn out bullshit books due to that core restriction 2) Modern comics are not written into a long term continuity, they are short runs that build zero incentive to buy back issues to research the IP, in a bigger way IE their is no drive on behalf the reader anymore to learn about the overall character arcs etc. There is no Bible of overall continuity and constant reboots which is just a crutch for shitty writers. I actually think it’s the worse time I have ever seen in comics and I have been reading since 1985.

Great video

Matt you're an excellent teacher. I loved the examples you used - they were super effective - the example of not showing the punch was proven so effective when combined with the added captions. It really made your point of the punch not being shown as ok if it strengthens or supports what you are trying to say and uses the medium of comics best by bringing your imagination into play.

Mysterious Suspense #1 by Steve Ditto. When I first got this book I thought, "Wow, the writer really made the artist's job tough." ;D

"I don't get out of bed for 5%" - Touker (Dragon's Den)

Also, you just saved me £30 with the printer recommendation!

Just what I needed today, thx!

Artist here working on my own short stories. Your channel has quickly become my favorite for comics creation advice - I cant remember if I commented on this one before but this is one of the clearest videos I've ever seen on comic short stories plotting. This is after about 5 yeats of investigating the subject. Being American I've never read 2000 AD as its just not in most American comic shops. Based on this video I ordered and began reading Vol 1 of 2000 AD's "Complete Future Shocks." I'm learning a lot reading each one and analyzing the setup and payoff and judging how successful it was or wasn't. Before that I was reading other American anthologies and many stories in them didn't have a good structure that felt satisfying in the end. So thanks for the recommendation!

Already reported this to RUclips for assaulting me in my own home with disturbing imagery. Why would you share videos of babies in your channel? Dude, that's messed up 🙈

Your supposed to keep the tache

Is it just me, or does the Marvel Method sound like an AWFUL way to make comics? If Stan Lee didn't have the time to write more scripts, he should've hired more writers. He could've given them outlines of what he wanted to happen in each comic, or leave the creative decisions to them. Then, the artists draw the comics based on the full scripts.

I'm starting with a "magnum opus" but I've actually written and completed plenty of other, much longer things before, so I'm actually finding it quite enjoyable even though the format is different. I'll see what other issues I might run into down the line, but I plan on working page by page as I get the art done (self-publishing. Yes, I know. Expensive.)

Bro, thank you so much! Really helped me. 😭

He full of shit. Don't published comic book lost everything because guy like hime saying anyone can published a comic book this is not true.

great video!

Hi Matt, I'm pretty new to your channel but wanted to say that your videos are great! So to comment on this video, I'm an artist and a couple years ago I collaborated with a writer who had never done comics before (they had worked on tv/film scripts) and in their script they would describe multiple things happening at once all the time. I ended drawing many more panels than they expected - they would always tell me "wow you really slowed it down" and they didn't mean it as a bad thing but more that they were just surprised at how when I drew what they described in a short blurb in the script, it wouldn't be one panel but it would end up being a page of panels - they didn't understand at all that each action needed it's own panel. Their script wasn't broken down panel by panel but was written more like a film with a paragraph describing what the character does and then had dialog following like "Character A enters his apartment shutting the door behind him and sets down his keys and picks up his mail and begins tearing it all open" which obviously would have to be drawn in multiple panels. One thing I learned from that experience is that I would definitely prefer a writer/collaborator in the future who actually reads comics because I had to educate this person all the time on how comics work. It was a little frustrating at times. Luckily they were flexible in let me do what needed to be done to get it to work.

Artist here. I appreciate you being blunt about artists needing to be paid. Learning the business of making comics is a difficult process. In my first comic attempts I did the art on a couple sample stories/pitches for writer friends on the verbal agreement of doing something great together running on "pure love" for the medium. Stupid I know. After slaving away for weeks while also working a full time job, in both cases once I was finished the writers abandoned the projects for "life reasons" - not overnight but just being lazy and not pushing the project out and standing behind it. Their drive just fizzled out for various reasons So that left me with pages that I can never really do anything with since the stories are incomplete etc. The amount of frustration I felt was immeasurable. So I learned the hard way not to lift a finger unless I get paid upfront or sign a contract guaranteeing me 1/2 ownership. For most people comics is a low paying endeavor and for an artist it takes years of training to know how to draw well, design characters, know your anatomy, compose a page, know how to use software, etc, etc. I could go on and on. Many writers I've talked with seem clueless about this and look at artists like hiring a plumber- just a means to an end when in reality in comics the artwork and story is intertwined. If a writer comes to me and has an idea for a character and I design it for them going through multiple iterations, I feel I deserve 50% ownership of that character for bringing it to life with my unique sensibilities. To any writer out there wanting to make a comic try to remember that blood sweat and tears goes into making a great book as far as the art goes and respect that as an essential part of the process and pay your artists fairly. I feel that if you dont want to do this its better for you to just write a novel where art is not required.

Skip the business cards: Print out and put on your table a QR code that links to a website to SELL. YOUR. MERCH.

If I’m going as a regular guest and I want to get rid of a few slabs can I sell my CGC slabs to the owners of the booths?

Good explanation

This is very similar to the way some writes work in Scrivener using the Save the cat method. Very cool and informative thanks

I have an inquiry please am trying to reprint comic book out of stock via printing company and the problem they do require to set margins and bleeding points before uploading files and honestly I have searched all over the internet to find away to determine the right margins and bleeding points for my comic book the size is 8.5x11 inch and I couldn’t come up with an answer I would appreciate any tips thank you

thanks

Love David Aja's Hawkeye, it really stands out from other comic style. Glad you mentioned.

Great videos matt, think I'll start my 4 page comic then

I’m glad I’m going the self publishing route because 50% for just getting my books into stores is just insane lol makes no sense. I enjoy personally communicating directly with comic stores who are excited to sell my books. Including MidTown Comics in NYC. So I’m good with all of that 😂 the gatekeeping days are over

Take a look at Fade-in pro screenwriting software. It’s not expensive

I’ve written a few screenplays and there are several formatting tools for that. Are there any formatting tools for comics?

Thanks a lot! I’m interested in making my own comics after rediscovering my childhood dream and passion for comics. I’ve missed so much over the years and there’s a whole world for me to discover 😃🥳 Content like yours is invaluable and I feel like it’s not impossible to learn even though I’m a bit late in the start 😅🎨

Hi, where do I go to find a comic artist in person? I am not good with tech, email and most websites. So where do I go to find one in person?

What about "I'm" , does that have a crossbar or no crossbar?

When I'm at a convention and I see an artist at a table and chat and when I see other customers coming, I offer for them to look through the artist folder when there are multiple folders so that could help the artist with potential sales too.

Definitely very helpful information, thank you! ^u^ /gen

Is it worthwhile to make a comic book nowadays?

Hi Matt, Thanks a lot for your videos. You got me hooked after watching your video on how to create a video for a kickstarter project. I'm an indie comic book creator based in the UK [Walsall to be precise]. I would like to contact you beyond this platform and seek your assistance on how to launch a successful kickstarter and also sell my comic books. Kind regards buddy.

Comics of today are resumed to bad art tons of cgi stuff and woke propaganda That’s why manga eat their lunch

Why not a movies

Really good content mate - love it and thank you ;-)

Kill your darlings is an art form in itself. xP Nice videos. :D

I have a idea for a hero, would like an opinion about it(if i don't ask gor much); Hero Name: Rainbow Man Real Name:Daniel "Dan" Bates Power:He can create Rainbows,which he can control into barriers and color bullets that when they hit something and change the color of the object or creature. Weaknesses: Besides a peanut allergy,he has the average human Weaknesses. What do you guys think?