Character: Dialogue

I’m writing a new comic (which I’ll finally be able to discuss next week after the announcement at Image Expo) and this early in the work I’m still learning the voices of my characters. Some of them are emerging full-born, chatty and easy — others, I’m having to tease and tweak, and experiment with. It’s fine, either way. I enjoy this part of the process. But it has reminded me again of the differences between writing comics and novels.

Good dialogue always matters. Always, always. But let’s s...