Super-powered Storytelling: What I’ve Learned from Writing Comics

Twenty pages, five to seven scenes. Splash pages, two-page spreads, gutters. A plots and B plots and C plots. Heroes and villains and love interests and sidekicks. Emotional arcs. Panels and layouts. I could go on, and I will – during this presentation, which offers both a crash course in comics writing, while also addressing how the medium has made me a better novelist, screenwriter, essayist and short story writer.