Comic Development Booklet

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COMIC DEVELOPMENT BOOKLET Create your own comic book concept using this booklet as a guide.

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Are you interested in being a comic book artist?

Would you like to create your own graphic novels?

Take inspiration from the incredible work of our students at Abertay Digital Graduate Show and use this booklet to come up with your own concept for an amazing new comic!

YOUR COMIC What is your comic called?

What is your comic about?

Who is your lead character(s)? E.g. Wizard, scientist, school pupil, animal, super hero

What does the character(s) do?

Where does your comic take place? E.g. castle, lab, school, alleyway, outer space

What is the storyline?

How do you convey the storyline through words? E.g. thought balloons, captions, speech bubbles, onomatopoeia (BLAM! SNAP! POW!)

What kind of atmosphere do you want the comic to have? E.g. fun, scary, serious, intriguing

Sketch the Character(s) in your comic. What do they look like? What are they wearing?

Sketch the setting(s) for your Comic.

There will be 6 panels in your comic - what happens in each panel? Use these panels to sketch out a small version of your comic.

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