As i lost myself in this fantastic, unusual and varied world that Neil had created i slowly began to realise that he was doing the sort of things in comics that i had been trying and failing to do in a novel. I'd always wanted my story to deal with immortality and gods and lots of the more weirder ideas i'd had over the years. I'd wanted to tell a story that jumped back and forth through time to different periods, had a lot of different characters and that was quite often told in a non linear storytelling form as well.
I'd been slapped in the face. I'd been slapped hard and i'd been slapped good. It was now clear to me that 'Modern Days' was a story that had always meant to be told over a period of time, as a comic, in installments, at 22 or 24 pages at a time, but also a story that would work as a far larger story when read in one go.
I'd never attempted to write a comic script before though, or for that matter any kind of script.
It had always been prose for me. That was all i'd ever written, all i'd ever wanted to write.
So that first script for the opening issue, issue #1 of 'Modern Days' became a very steep learning curve for me to say the least. I read as much as i could as i wrote. I re- read 'The Sandman', i read the 'Death' spin offs, i read Alan Moore's 'Watchmen', i read Joe Strazynski's 'Rising Stars', and so on, and so on. I read and i learned as much i possibly could.
And in the midst of all this i fell in love with comics again. I realised that you can do anything with them. and more importantly, and most surprisingly i realised that i now enjoy writing comics more than i enjoy writing prose. Hmm, yup, go figure.
And so, i guess after years of writing just prose this is how i arrived so late to writing comics ...
James
I'd been slapped in the face. I'd been slapped hard and i'd been slapped good. It was now clear to me that 'Modern Days' was a story that had always meant to be told over a period of time, as a comic, in installments, at 22 or 24 pages at a time, but also a story that would work as a far larger story when read in one go.
I'd never attempted to write a comic script before though, or for that matter any kind of script.
It had always been prose for me. That was all i'd ever written, all i'd ever wanted to write.
So that first script for the opening issue, issue #1 of 'Modern Days' became a very steep learning curve for me to say the least. I read as much as i could as i wrote. I re- read 'The Sandman', i read the 'Death' spin offs, i read Alan Moore's 'Watchmen', i read Joe Strazynski's 'Rising Stars', and so on, and so on. I read and i learned as much i possibly could.
And in the midst of all this i fell in love with comics again. I realised that you can do anything with them. and more importantly, and most surprisingly i realised that i now enjoy writing comics more than i enjoy writing prose. Hmm, yup, go figure.
And so, i guess after years of writing just prose this is how i arrived so late to writing comics ...
James
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