When reading comics,

JustSarah · May 6, 2013

Is there a way to read comics like an artist like a writer would for a book? I know in the novel field, one looks at sentence structure to watch for things like how they very their sentences.

I used to primarily read manga, and I sort of always wanted to do this.

Kerosene · May 6, 2013

If you're looking as a writer and not an inspiring graphic artist/mangaka: Read it like a storyteller, not a writer. (You can do this with any story medium).

Focus on the scene. How the it sets up, transitions, and ends.
The characteristics of the characters.
Some narration and dialogue.
Conflict of the plot and rising tension.
Creative elements of the world and story.

I do have a warning: As a big manga reader myself, I've learned a lot of the tropes do not trade over well into the western world. But this is a case that depends on how you adapt those trope, if you so use them, into your writing.

JustSarah · May 6, 2013

Thanks.

I'm looking at it as both. (Though I have an artist now.)

When reading comics,

JustSarah

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