Comic Book Storyboards

From Boston Diaries [Link]

I had seen how comic books are written, thanks to an oversized (nearly poster sized) Superman special comic book, and it looked more like a screenplay than a comic book (oddly enough, most movies, or at least those made by Messrs. Lucas and Spielberg, go through a storyboard phase which looks more like a comic book than a screenplay). So all these years, I kind of assumed that's how comic books are written.

One big comic from the past few years which did this was DC's 52, a weekly series with four writers working together who handed their scripts off to Keith Giffen, who did breakdowns for each issue so even with different artists on each issue the look and feel was consistent. Here are the breakdowns for each issue. [Link]

The Marvel Method is a bit different. It has the writer writing a plot and handing that to the artist, who then draws the issue and gives it back to the writer to finish the dialog. All Marvel books used to be done that way, but it's apparently not as ubiquitous as it once was.

Previously mentioned before here is the Comic Book Script Archive which has a pile of actual comic scripts in many different formats.