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    The document provides guidelines for properly formatting a comic book script, including: 1) Including a page header with book title, number and writer's name on each page. 2) Clearly labeling each script page and panel number in a large, bold font. 3) Keeping panel descriptions brief unless additional details are needed, and including reference images. 4) Formatting dialogue, captions, and sound effects for the letterer in the designated areas below each panel.

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    The document provides guidelines for properly formatting a comic book script, including: 1) Including a page header with book title, number and writer's name on each page. 2) Clearly labeling each script page and panel number in a large, bold font. 3) Keeping panel descriptions brief unless additional details are needed, and including reference images. 4) Formatting dialogue, captions, and sound effects for the letterer in the designated areas below each panel.

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    Manual that describes the layout for a comic book manuscript.

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    Comic Book Format I

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    The document provides guidelines for properly formatting a comic book script, including: 1) Including a page header with book title, number and writer's name on each page. 2) Clearly labeling each script page and panel number in a large, bold font. 3) Keeping panel descriptions brief unless additional details are needed, and including reference images. 4) Formatting dialogue, captions, and sound effects for the letterer in the designated areas below each panel.

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    Nate Piekos, a prolific letterer and founder of Blambot which is the site for comic book
    lettering fonts, put together a really great script formatting tutorial based off a page by
    Fred Van Lente:

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    Notes as follows:
    1) A page header with the book title, number and writers name.
    2) Each new script page should begin on a new document page. And you cant miss
    the page number when its big and bold. Often, I have to skim through a script to look
    for a note or direction. Big page numbers help tremendously.

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    3) Panel numbers almost as bold and clear as the page number.


    4) Panel descriptions for the most part dont have to be that lengthy unless its really

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    necessary. The actions of characters should be here, (not in the lettering area; see #6)
    set direction, and notes to the other members of the creative team if necessary.
    5) Also, the digital age has given us the greatest source of reference that comic
    creators have ever had access to. Links to reference photos should also be included in
    the panel description.

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    6) Under each panel description is the lettering area. Everything that needs to be
    lettered goes here.
    7) Each item in the lettering area should be numbered. If the editor is doing lettering

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    placements, these numbers correspond to the placements sent to the letterer.


    8) The call-out of each lettering item and any descriptors like these:
    CHARACTER (OFF), meaning the character is speaking from off-panel.
    CHARACTER (WHISPER), self-explanatory.
    CHARACTER (BURST), meaning the dialogue is shouted and should be in a burst
    balloon.

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    CHARACTER (WEAK), characters dialogue should be diminished.


    CHARACTER (SINGING), self-explanatory. Usually accompanied by music notes.
    9) Like dialogue, captions have their own descriptors:

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    NARRATION or CAPTION (CHARACTER), self-explanatory. The inner thoughts of a


    character.
    CAPTION (TIME/PLACE), such as, New York, 2013.
    CAPTION (VOICE OVER), meaning the character is speaking, but is not in the location
    shown in the current panel.
    10) SFX, self-explanatory, sound effect.
    11) Dialogue should be indented, NOT tabbed over. If you use tabs, the letterer has to
    run find/replace searches on the document to delete them all before lettering. (To use
    indents in MS Word, go: Format / Paragraph / Indents & Spacing.) Dialogue should also
    be written in plain sentence case, not CAPS.
    12) Dialogue that should be bold in the comic, should be bold and/or underlined in the
    script. If you use caps for bold dialogue, the letterer will have to convert it to sentence
    case before lettering.
    13) Non-English dialogue should be italic. Whole blocks of dialogue that are translated
    into English, should begin with a < and end with a >, and are usually accompanied by a
    caption explaining what language is being spoken.
    If you want to take a look at what the final page came out looking like, plus get
    additional comments from Nate, head over to Blambot to check out the full article!

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    2 Comments

    Joe

    February 24, 2014 at 3:54 pm | Permalink

    Really insightful. Im a beginner working on my own story and this


    did help a good amount. Thank you for the information, its greatly
    appreciated.
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    February 24, 2014 at 3:56 pm | Permalink

    Great to hear, Joe!!


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