2000 ad script book

[opaque]

They could always be added as extra to any future reprints (along with any sketches etc), bit late for a few though of course. Would be nice to maybe see a couple up on the site maybe.

[Adam Twycross]

I've got the original script to Judge Dredd: Attack of the Sex Crazed Love Dolls from prog 1066 (the sex issue)

It's a cracker, the strip itself having been drawn by Greg Staples (from whom I got the script) and written as a full-scale Wagnum Opus.

It's got some great little working sketches by Greg (great to compare to the finished piece) and an internal memo from 2000AD editorial (that's you, Bish-Op, in this case!) about an impending page-size increase.

If people would be interested in seeing it I'll gladly scan the pages and send them to anywhere that people can see them from... Wake in this case I guess?

[Floyd-the-k]

Having read one entire script (The Bouncy Brats Heist, which I was sent by the Megazine for some reason), I`d have to say noooo thank you.  One script plus sketches/comments might be interesting somewhere, but generally I`d rather read the finished product.  
 

[W. R. Logan]

Original script, is there such a thing these days? The writer types it up, e-mails it to the office, the office e-mails it to the artist he prints it off.
Was sat a convention once chatting to Alan Grant and it must have been an auction of some kind and one of the lots was a signed script, can?t remember who by. After a tentative start the thing went for ?15 or something like that. Alan couldn?t believe it and reckoned if he set his printer to print off a load, sign them then flog them for a couple of quid each it?d be the easiest money maker ever.

La Placa Rifa,
http://www.2000ad.nu/classof79/>W. R. Logan.

[W. R. Logan]

>At this point Logan will enter and point out that John Wagner probably doesn't have scripts for comics that were published this year, let alone decades ago...

John Wagner probably doesn't have scripts for comics that were published this year, let alone decades ago...

La Placa Rifa,
http://www.2000ad.nu/classof79/>W. R. Logan.

[GordonR]

>>John Wagner probably doesn't have scripts for comics that were published this year, let alone decades ago...

Him, and everyone else.

I delete a script as soon as the story's been published.  After rigorously comparing the two to see where the bastard artist/editor/colourist/letterer has messed it all up, of course.

A script's just a stage to getting to the finished article.  Once the thing's been published, what's the point of the script?

[Woolly]

As a budding artist (budding = not very good) i think theyed be great to work from.
But then again, if theyve already been done and printed, unused originals would be a better idea.
But if the idea was never used, then its probably crap, and whats the point of drawing that?

Im starting to confuse myself...
...I'll get me coat...

[W. R. Logan]

>Pat Mills: Judge Whitey script (With amendments)

You could read the script for the story that should have appeared before Judge Whitey in the http://www.2000adonline.com/index.php3?zone=input&page=thrillindex>Thrill Viewer section of this site, or jump straight to the http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=input&page=thrillviewer&choice=courtroom>?Courtroom? strip or the http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=droid&page=scripts&choice=courtroom>Script.

You might find the odd old script but doubt if there are many that have survived from the days of the typewriter. I?ve got some John Wagner and Alan Grant scripts on my hard drive, will dig them out and if there?s anything Wakes not got I?ll send to him to add to the site.

La Placa Rifa,
http://www.2000ad.nu/classof79/>W. R. Logan.

[The Amstor Computer]

"A script's just a stage to getting to the finished article. Once the thing's been published, what's the point of the script?"

For the person who wrote it, there's not much point in keeping the script - as you say, it's a part of a process that results in the finished article.

However, to the budding writer or artist, a script can be a useful insight into how the process works. True, you're going to find out a lot of this stuff yourself by trial and error, but being able to look at how the guys who do this for a living go about it is always interesting, and often instructive.

[JamieB]

Still available: WRITERS ON COMIC SCRIPTWRITING from Titan Books, featuring scripts & extracts from Warren Ellis, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis...

J-Bo-1

[Art]

However, to the budding writer or artist, a script can be a useful insight into how the process works.

Yeah, but surely once you've seen one or two you've seen them all?

[The Amstor Computer]

"Yeah, but surely once you've seen one or two you've seen them all?"

Pretty much, yes.

I'm certainly not arguing for the publication of *more* scripts - I'd say that the material currently available is enough for anyone interested in learning about the process of creating a comic, or even just interested in learning how to lay out a script, what directions to use, etc.