Needful Things

Excellent website focused on types and fonts for comic books and designers. Besides selling gorgeous fonts, they have some very useful resources, including a top notch comic book grammar guide.

My main working tool, I’ve been using Scrivener for years to write film and TV scripts, business papers, articles and now comic book scripts. The way it lets you organize your writing, makes it an order of magnitude better than a regular word processor or script writing software, all for a very low price.

In spite of many other options on the market, Adobe’s tools: Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, continue being among the most used by comic book creators. Many people dislike the current creative cloud monthly paying scheme which has resulted in migration to other software alternatives.

Clip Studio is the main alternative to Photoshop, used by comic book artists. This software’s fans swear by it, insisting that Clip Studio is better in many aspects and it’s price point is way lower.

Pen displays have rapidly been displacing drawing tablets as the weapon of choice for digital artists. The Wacom Cintiq is one of the priciest but also the product line to which others compare.