My comic book series WULF & BATSY! The Adventures of a Ferocious Werewolf and a Cute Female Vampire as they wander the earth, looking for a place to call Home.
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Where to get it:
Website: https://t.co/gbt0UdMObI
Print editions: https://t.co/mIeDvVJeVD
Digital: https://t.co/nDWAx7R3Xp
Wulf & Batsy on YouTube: https://t.co/P7Pkab1z42
Your original question gave me the impression you were talking about a writer loading up a script with descriptions of how every scene should look or how the story should be told visually. I've heard about writers who do that and I thought you were asking what artists think of comic scripts written that way.
Your example based on your experience sounds like an isolated, problem solving situation and more reasonable. If the artist is "not getting it" and the writer providing a rudimentary sketch helps to better express an idea, and get the job done, that's no big deal.
Because to me, it feels like overstepping boundaries, like the writer telling the artist how to do their job.
Full disclosure: I am probably inclined to have that reaction, because it goes completely against my training.
When I worked as a storyboard artist in TV Animation, the scripts told you: what the characters do, the things that happen, and the dialogue. But as a rule, they did not go into any description of what any of these things should look like.
That's the artist's job (and the artist's specialty) to translate that information into visual storytelling, and to figure out how to convey that information in a visually interesting way.
HORROR NERD TRIVIA:
Horror Fans owe this war movie, Kelly’s Heroes, a debt of thanks. A young, unknown guy named John Landis worked on it. While they were filming on location in Eastern Europe, he observed a real Gypsy Funeral and learned about the local superstitions. This gave him the inspiration to write An American Werewolf in London.
EXPLORING 70s CINEMA
a project I am doing with friends,
KELLY'S HEROES (1970)
Another cynical military comedy with the same subversive perspective as last week's film MASH but a somewhat different concept. Clint Eastwood heads a powerful cast. Artful direction by Brian G Hutton.
PHOTO 1: Taken on my birthday, July 28th, 1977, with my BIG PRESENT that year, SHOGUN WARRIORS GODZILLA!
PHOTOS 2,3,4: Taken on July 28th, 2025. The exact same figure, recently rescued from a box where he'd been carefully stored, in Mom & Dad's basement. The spring inside his right arm is a little rusty making his Shogun Warrior "punching fist" a little loose. But check it out, his FIRE TONGUE still works like new.🔥
Truly one of the greatest toys of the 1970s and of my childhood. I always loved his facial expression and those intense, bright red & yellow eyes and teeth. He now stands proudly near my art desk in my current home office, continuing to inspire my imagination every day.
Mom said, "You've had that thing so long it's like a member of the family."😆
If you are sad (like me!😢) that October 2026 flew by too fast, and that another Halloween has already come and gone... Here is a book to cheer you up!!
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I stupidly stayed up too late playing video games. So I not only doomed myself to not get enough sleep but also made Sunday night feel like a Saturday night.
Thus setting myself up for disorientation and disappointment when my alarm goes off and reality hits me, that it’s actually Monday morning.
There are times when my present self is my future self’s worst enemy.😖
If you are sad (like me!😢) that October 2026 flew by too fast, and that another Halloween has already come and gone... Here is a book to cheer you up!!
There's still 8 days left to get your copy of HALLOWEEN NOCTURNES!🎃🎃🎃🎃 LINK BELOW!
@DarrellMck81973 You haven't missed out. The campaign is going for 7 more days. You still have time to get the book if you want it.
Link:
https://t.co/T2kJPOdusD
@DarrellMck81973 Because this campaign was launched in October and set to run for a limited time. I am not planning to over-print this book, and keep extra copies in stock afterwards. It is meant to be a special, seasonal item. Anybody who wants one, needs to pre-order it on the campaign.🎃
See this👇 is a perfect example of what I was talking about. The "SJWS"/ Wokies (or whatever they call themselves now) don't even bother trying to convince us Horror Fans that "fridging" is a BAD THING. They know their politically correct scolding will never work on people who consider Friday the 13th one of their favorite movie franchises.😂 😂😂😂
Beautifully stated. I think this is why you don’t see the “woke” stuff infecting Horror the way it has infected other genres of entertainment.
Either the “SJWs” find horror itself too scary/repellent for their easily offended natures to deal with, and just stay away… Or they assume horror fans are too far gone, too warped and sick, to be “helped” by their utopian ideals. Because for the most part, they have left Horror alone.
@MikeVanderbilt Horror, more than any other genre beyond erotica, naturally rejects sanitization. Those who attempt to define anything within its boundaries as problematic, will eventually run up against the white blood cells of its innately anarchic quality.