Creating the first issue of my comic
The big question when writing a comic is: how long should it be? How many pages in total? The truth is, I don’t know exactly. I don’t know how long the story will be and how many pages I need to draw. Based on the high expectations we all have about us and our creative stories I maybe don’t want to know. This said, I don’t want to fall into this trap creating an overblown project that I start eagerly with motivation, but lose interest along the way and nobody gets to see. So I am trying to follow the Minimal Viable Story approach here, kind of. I actually want to finish stuff. So I decided to divide the story in approachable chunks, more precise several issues that I produce and publish after another. This way I run the circle of writing the script, making layouts, pencilling, inking, colouring, filling in word boxes in smaller timelines and repeating it multiple times. Which means I even could learn from my past mistakes when preparing the next issue. Some of these thoughts came throu...