Hello Rebels, welcome to episode 84 of The Rebel Author Podcast. Today, I’m talking to Marcus E Ako all about how to self-publish a graphic novel.
In this episode we cover:
- The differences between writing a novel and a graphic novel
- How to actually write a graphic novel
- How to choreograph a fight scene with an illustrator
- How story arcs work across a single graphic novel and a series
- How to find and work with an illustrator
- Mistakes to avoid
This week’s question is: Do you read graphic novels? If so, what are your recommendations?
Recommendation of the week is: How to Get Your Book Into Schools and Double Your Income With Volume Sales by David H Hendrickson
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My top 3 Graphic Novels: Saga, The Sandman. The Wicked & The Divine. I had to stop at 3 or I wouldn’t be able to stop.
My co-author and I have tabled a graphic novel series in our story world we are crafting. For now the focus is on finishing the primary series, then expanding the story world. I was happy and validated after reading You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Story by Houston Howard, since he argues for a transmedia approach to storytelling that my co-author and I firmly believe in. For us, the graphic novel will serve to convey a more fantastical and foreign portion of our story that doesn’t fit in YA Dark Urban Fantasy, but would serve to expand the world while also being it’s own piece of fiction.
Exciting to hear more talk on pursuing graphic novels for authors, and lots of great advice in this episode!