Still trying to come up with a hundred comic ideas in a hundred days! This is the fourth.
Collaborating about making a comic can be very fun. And very often when collaborating about making a comic, especially when it’s done for fun, one tends to ignore the common sense of regular scriptwriting and make up the plot as one goes along. If I draw the first page of a collaborative comic, I have no idea what will happen in the second page, and I most certainly have absolutely no idea what’s going to happen in the last page. That is a terrible way to write great scripts, but a great way to have fun.
But have you ever considered doing this process backwards?
Let’s say that I and eleven other people agree to collaborate on a twelve page comic. Normally, then, I guess I would start with drawing a page, and then let person B draw the second page based on what I did in the first page.
But let’s flip that around. Instead of drawing the first page, I draw the twelfth page of the story. Based on what I do in that last page, person B now has to draw the eleventh page. And so on.
I think that it could be very interesting to make a comic this way. Instead of starting somewhere without having a clue where it’s gonna end, we know from the start where things are gonna end, and just have to figure out how we got there. I would definitely read a comic like that.
Okay, that’s… Four down. Ninety-six to go.