Another early sketch (pre-coloring, duh) for the graphic novel. Lex and Father C, sharing the road:
As a novelist, script-writing wasn’t exactly in my bag of tricks. I had to do some extensive research (10 minutes on Google) to figure it all out. Even though all the material is there (300+ pages of prose), it’s in the wrong format for a graphic novel/movie. Of course, there is plenty of debate on what format works best for a graphic novel script, but my artist has been doing just fine with a format like this (WordPress removed some of my tabbing, so use your imagination). I’ve found 3-5 panels per page to work the best:
Pages x-x
New Characters:
[pics, descriptions]
Page x
Panel 1 description. blah blah blah
CHARACTER NAME
dialogue
Panel 2 description. blah blah blah
CHARACTER NAME
dialogue
CHARACTER NAME
dialogue
… and so on.
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