Octocon Presents: How to Get Started Writing Comic Scripts

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Octocon Presents: How to Get Started Writing Comic Scripts

To help celebrate Free Comic Day 2023 our Chair Paul Carroll has put together a workshop on writing short comics.

In this 30 minute workshop, Paul Carroll provides an insight into the craft of writing for comics, drawing on his experiences in the Irish independent comics scene and the production of Limit Break Comics’ myth anthologies, Turning Roads, Down Below and Fractured Realms.

The workshop will address:

  • scripts and formats
  • the rules of film and storytelling and how they apply to comics
  • an understanding of the different roles of creators in comics
  • advice on approaching other creators
  • tips on releasing comics in digital and print formats, and
  • a template for pitching short comics to anthologies.