Eight Questions for Comics Creators
Douglas Wolk, writing for Techland, writes up eight questions for comics creators at the beginning of a new project;
2. What is it going to look like?
How does it look different from every other comic book out there, including others drawn by the same person? There are no great generic cartoonists; first-rate cartoonists treat style and design as integral elements of every individual project, and it’s generally true that the more premeditated a particular comic’s look is, the better it comes out. (The Dark Knight Strikes Again doesn’t look like Sin City, which doesn’t look like 300…) This also extends to coloring, of course. Think of Patricia Mulvihill’s work on 100 Bullets, say, or what Frank D’Armata’s been doing on Invincible Iron Man lately: they’re distinctive, carefully thought out, and hugely important to the way both series work.