how do you make a comic strip?

if you have a poblem in SPACE like I do... you know... dialog boxes being close to each other... scenes put into JUST 1 page instead of two.... try, putting a lay-out first... draw where you want the scenes to go and where the characters should be placed... then take another sheet of paper and using a pencil draw...shade the scenes... make it as clean as possible... that way you won't have mistakes when you add ink to it... then using ink... just fill in the parts that need to be filled in.... then color your comic...

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if it is just a comic stip you may want to make the strip as jam-packed as possible... do not be afraid to experiment, if you have no idea to what the backgound should be... leave it blank...do not make dialogs long... it would be boring and space consuming.. in inking (shading)... just use some good quality black india ink and some pen nibs.... does wonders... if you aren't comfotable with using paint in coloring.... just use some coloring pencils or pentle pens... great effect... my personal faves are those made by CRAYOLA, nice solid effect especially if dakened it and it doesn't fall apart or comes along with your fingers when you touch it.. looks like paint when it gets printed too

First, you need someone who can draw (Unless you are Scott Adams, then in does not seem to make a difference), then you need an idea that can be expressed in 1 to 3 panels depending on the format of the strip you are creating. You need that plot before you ever start drawing.

In some cases, the guy doing the artwork is different from the guy doing the plot/gag/whatever. In other cases they are the same person.

If you are doing these to publish, you usually send a full weeks worth at one time. To be considered at all, you must have an archive of them.

Comic strips being the size they are, you have to keep the artwork pretty simple, particularly the 3 panel strips. You generally draw them much larger than the strip and reduce them, but you can't put in so many details they get lost in the reduction.

Anything else?

-Dio

I examine the two the weekly and Sunday comics. My prominent comedian strips of all time are "Calvin and Hobbes"and "a techniques area". My prominent strips that are nonetheless working are "Fox Trot" and "Get Fuzzy".

Tell him his clothes are on fire (?)

That you just saw a spider go up his pant leg (?)

Jay Leno is interviewing nude comics (?)

OR

Tell him that his clothes have an STD (?)

Dust his clothing with itching powder.

(Glad to see I'm not the only respondee with a bit of a sick mind.)

you need a story

then imagine how it will look scene by scene...

make sure its short, concise, and a great punchline.

too many texts will cause your reader to loose interest.

Tell them you need some material...

!. But/get/steal a comic

2.Threaten it to strip

3.Enjoy

idk