New readers might not know who's who yet. Identify the characters by name in the dialogue as soon as possible and in a natural way. Brevity is the soul of wit, as the expression goes. The artist can do a lot of the heavy lifting with visuals they need room to do it. They’re here for the art just as much (if not more) than the story. If people wanted to read a novel, they’d pick one up. It’s best to aim for no more than 25 words per balloon / 40 per panel. Rotante: A big one is: always keep the reader wanting more! Whether that’s by a great “cliffhanger” moment in the last panel before a page turn, or by just keeping a story short and sweet, with the ability to return to it in a longer format later on down the line.Īnd a good rule of thumb for any person creating comics is this: always leave room for the art to breathe! Trust that your artist can fill in the gaps and tell the story the best way possible no need to overwrite to explain things.
Archie ComicsĬhan: What are 2-3 classic storytelling rules that Archie comics live by? New Archie characters appear regularly including Kevin Keller.
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Learning his way of thinking about the characters really helped me and Jamie understand how to be a good editor for the company. Victor had been with Archie for over 60 years, and he was great to work with. It's nice to have moved back to classic Archie and taken over from my friend and Archie legend Victor Gorelick. We’ve both worked on a little bit of everything, so we have a really good sense of the characters and how to target each market best. Both departments work together on our graphic novel output.
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Our modern line comprises all of our new/modern-style comics since the 2015 reboot of the Archie comic book series by Mark Waid and Fiona Staples, and our horror titles. Both of those offer five-to-ten pages of new content along with reprints from our 80 years of publishing. Our classic line includes our popular digest magazines and standard-sized single-issue comic books. We currently have two distinct “departments” in terms of publishing output. It's a small, but immensely dedicated team, so there's a ton of synergy across all titles.
Rotante: The folks behind Archie Comics really run the entire publishing business like a well-oiled machine. How does each major department help tell the story of Archie comics? Soon the company would focus on Archie and other teen characters, even renaming the once-MLJ Comics to Archie Comics.Ĭhan: Let’s go behind-the-scenes. Believe it or not, that’s where old (actually, forever young) Archie comes in, as sort of the antithesis of the “super man” and a champion of the everyman.
The early MLJ stuff was similar to the pulps in many ways: crime, western, adventure, some funny stuff, and eventually, superhero material as Superman exploded onto the scene. Then Maurice Coyne, Louis Silberkleit, and John L Goldwater formed MLJ Comics (MLJ from the first initials of their first names). They had a lot of great writers who would go on to be household names, and the covers were very eye-catching. The company goes back even further to the days of pulp novels, which were cheap reading pretty shocking and sensational stories, crime, westerns, romance, and some sci-fi.
Mike Pellerito: It's incredible to think about how long Archie has existed the first media outside of comics to feature the Archie characters was a radio show! Kinda’ like a scripted podcast for those not in the know, lol. His popularity continued to grow so much that, in 1946, the company changed its name to Archie Comic Publications, Inc. Archie was such a hit he went from being a feature to having his own title the following year. The popular Andy Hardy movies at the time made it cool for relatable, younger heroes to take center stage. It wasn't until Pep Comics #22 in 1941 that Archie made his first appearance. It began as MLJ Magazines in 1939, mostly focused on superhero comics. Rotante: Archie Comics has been around for over 80 years (we actually just celebrated Archie's landmark 80 th year with a number of retrospective collections that fans loved-especially 80 Years, 80 Stories and Archie: 80 Years of Christmas.) But the publishing side of things goes back a little further. Goldie Chan: How long has Archie Comics existed for? What was the original inspiration?
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