Ann Nocenti–Her Work in Comics

In November, 2019, I attended a Comic Artist Workshop meetup featuring Ann Nocenti.

Her bio per Comicvine: Ann Nocenti is a comic book writer who was nominated for the Will Eisner Award of "Best Writer" in 1989 thanks to her work on Daredevil. Also known as an editor for Marvel comics on the Uncanny X-Men and New Mutants. Nocenti helped to create characters with artists (John Romita Jr. or Art Adams respectfully) help, like: Blackheart, Longshot, Mojo, Typhoid Mary and Spiral.

Here a few takeaways from her talk:

• Have people read your comics dialogue out loud
• Every panel should be interesting individually; they should stand alone
• If collaborating, best to do it in-person
• Less is more. Don't overwhelm with content.
• If can't fit the text and art elegantly into a panel, need to cut
• Since speaking in pictures, she sends lots of reference to the artist
• All artistic choices need to have a purpose and make sense

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