You’ve got a killer idea! Or do you? How can you know if it’s worth the time, effort, money, and likely discomfort of turning thought into comics? While there is no definite answer, Josh Flanagan and Andy Schmidt bat the concept around for a while, and come up with some guidelines and starting points you can use when deciding whether or not to go for it.
Running Time: 00:12:44
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Andy Schmidt is the founder of the online comic book school Comics Experience, as well as a former editor at Marvel Comics and IDW Publishing. Josh Flanagan has been working on iFanboy.com, talking, reviewing, and thinking about comics for over a decade, as well as writing and creating some of his own.
If you’re interested in going further, you can check out Comics Experience, where there are plenty of classes available in all the disciplines of comic book creation from writing to drawing to coloring to lettering.
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Music:
I Don’t Know Anything
Mad Season