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TITAN COMICS

SAMPLE SCRIPT TEMPLATE – OPTION 1

PAGE ONE

Page One, Panel 1

Description goes here in regular type. This is where you tell your artist (and colorist,
letterer and editor) what happens in the panel. Keep it brief, pertinent, and to one
frozen action per character, per panel.

You may find a conversational style works best for you – if you can communicate
your ideas clearly to the artist, it doesn’t really matter what’s in the description, as it
won’t see print!

1) CHARACTER A: ALL CAPS FOR DIALOGUE IS FAIRLY STANDARD FOR

US COMICS, but feel free to use sentence case if you prefer.

2) CHARACTER B: CHARACTER B RESPONDS, WITH AN EMPHASIS! AN

EMPHASIS WILL BE BOLDED IN THE FINAL LETTERING.

Page One, Panel 2

Description goes here. Between three and six panels is probably the most comfortable
rhythm for a page, but many creators have worked wonders on a nine-panel grid, or
even higher. Just remember that the more panels you have on a page, the less
information – visuals and dialogue – you can fit into each one.

3) CHARACTER A: CHARACTER A RESPONDS. NOTE HOW ALL

LETTERING IS NUMBERED WITHIN A SINGLE PAGE, TO AID THE
LETTERER.

4) CHARACTER A (JOINED): CHARACTER A HAS A SECOND THOUGHT.

THE BALLOONS ARE JOINED WITH AN INTERNAL TAIL.

Page One, Panel 3

Description goes here. A maximum of 28 words in a balloon is a good yardstick to
keep your dialogue moving and your panels unstuffed.

SFX: BZZZT BZZZT - SOUND EFFECTS ARE NOT NUMBERED.

5) CHARACTER C (RADIO JAG): CHARACTER C IS CALLING OVER THE

RADIO/PHONE!

Page One, Panel 4

Description goes here. Different writers treat balloons in different ways, but a good
way to think of them is as separate breaths, or separate thoughts. Every time your
character would take a breath, or change tack mid-thought, split it into a different
balloon.

6) CHARACTER A (LARGE, JAG): CHARACTER A EXPRESSES SURPRISE!

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Page One, Panel 5

Description goes here. Thought balloons have largely fallen out of fashion in the
industry, in favor of the voice-over caption, which fulfils much the same purpose. But
see what suits the style of your project.

7) CHARACTER A V/O CAP: HMMM, THIS IS WHERE MY INTERIOR

MONOLOGUE WOULD GO, IF I WERE CHARACTER A.

8) NARRATIVE CAP: OR PERHAPS YOU’D PREFER TO TALK ABOUT

CHARACTER A IN THE THIRD PERSON, IN WHICH CASE I’M YOUR BEST
BET.

PAGE TWO

Page Two, Panel 1

And all the numbering resets. Lather, rinse and repeat until you hit 20 or 22 pages,
and your issue is complete!

1) CHARACTER A: THANK YOU.

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