Writing Tutorials, Tips & Tricks, etc.

Stories don't just pop into our heads fully-formed and perfect. In fact, sometimes when we sit down to start a chapter, ideas don't want to form at all. So let's bust those brainstorming blocks with some in-depth tips on where to start: character arc, common ground in the cast, and ... Continue Reading

What's your process? Everybody has their own way of doing things, and the Webcomic Alliance folks thought it would be neat to compare the different ways we approach our artwork. So I thought I'd get the ball rolling and share with you a video I'd made earlier of my storyboarding ... Continue Reading

I have a confession to make. I love to write – whether it was short stories, final exam essays or even speeches – it doesn’t matter. Maybe one of the reasons was because I was fortunate to have a high school English teacher that really encouraged all of his students ... Continue Reading

Think you can just make it up as you go along? Think again! In this video I dive into the benefits of world-building. What are your favorite stories with a strongly-built world? What are the worst world-building slip-ups you've seen? ... Continue Reading

A big hearty two thumbs up goes out to J. Kevin Carrier for his winning submission to the "Write You Own Graphic Novel - Caption Contest"! Kevin's winning entry is posted below along with his script. We want to thank everyone who submitted entries for this contest and we hope ... Continue Reading

Hey kids! We're gonna try something a little bit different this time for a contest. Since ol' Drezzy-boy is running the show on this one, we thought it would be nice if we changed things up a little bit and gave the budding writers/comedians/serious folk a bit of a crack ... Continue Reading

  If there is something every year have in common is this: every single year, we get treated with boring stuff about the previous year review and the upcoming new year’s preview. Seriously, isn’t that boring? Well, if you agree with me, you may just want to skip this article entirely and ... Continue Reading

KIDS reading COMICS? What the-- Yes, there is still a percentage of comic readers out there under the age of 12! Just when you thought the ticket to a successful comic (or webcomic) was shock factor-- sex, gory violence, mature content.... well, it's no longer shocking to see this in comics. ... Continue Reading

Gimme a pint, or two. Keep ‘em coming honey as I have a lot to say. Anyhow, one year, it’s been one year already here at the Webcomic Alliance, phew! Please allow me to quote myself from last week’s article by Ken: We’ve shown the webcomic community that not only the ... Continue Reading

So you’ve got a creative itch. You’ve been tossing around this idea you have for a comic and you have a great character you’ve been doodling for a little while and you just don’t know where to start. A lot of us have been there. Actually, most of us who are ... Continue Reading

So you are writing a story. Oh and surprise, You are not writing it alone! Co-writing a story for a comic or webcomic is an amazing experience. It adds more to the story that you would have brought alone. Partnering with someone for a storyline is great and I will always ... Continue Reading

Ah yes. Start up the ol' computer in a beach chair on the Caribbean and have the waiter bring you a Pina Colada to help inspire the next comic....Yeah, right. It'd be nice, but most of us have to deal with make-shift bookshelves, Ikea desks that included a migraine upon ... Continue Reading

Let’s chat about Scripting. In comic writing, there’s a style known as the Marvel Style where someone like a Stan Lee essentially dictates a general synopsis of the story idea he has to his artists and they go off and create a comic.  They bring back 22 pages of ... Continue Reading

With all of these creative articles that my fellow WCA members are putting up, I decided to try my proverbial pen at an article. It's safe to say that I am in no way, shape or form, an artist. My strengths have always been in writing. Fantasy/Sci-Fi Prose, poems, Haiku's, ... Continue Reading

We have all been there, haven't we? Whether we have written ourselves into a corner and cannot come up with a clever punchline to save our lives, or are staring at a blank screen/piece of paper with no inspiration whatsoever, Writer's Block is brutal. And for those of us with ... Continue Reading

There are books, college courses and lots of blog posts about writing for comics.  I like to break things down to simple bullet points that outline some common sense items we should all be doing, but forget or take for granted.  Here's my tips on writing my webcomic. Syntax. If you ... Continue Reading