Comics and Graphic Novels Editing and Proofreading Services

A comics script is an instruction document disguised as a piece of writing. It is read by an artist who will spend a week on a page, a letterer working to fixed balloon space, a colourist, and an editor tracking a schedule — and almost none of what the writer describes will appear in the finished book as words. Scripts that read beautifully and draw badly are the most common failure in the form, and they are produced by writers thinking about the reader rather than about the person who has to build the page.

We edit what comics publishers, writers and studios produce — full scripts and Marvel-method plots, panel descriptions and page breakdowns, dialogue and caption text, lettering notes and sound effect direction, series bibles and continuity documents, character and world reference material, pitch documents and submission packages, solicitation and catalogue copy, collected edition front and back matter, letters pages and supplementary material, translation and localisation scripts for licensed editions, and contributor agreements and credit conventions. Our editors work to your house script format rather than imposing one, and we check that the page count in the script matches the page count in the schedule.

The panel description is where a script succeeds or wastes everyone's time. Writers overload it — a paragraph of interior monologue about what the character feels, the weather, the history of the room — none of which an artist can draw, while the one thing that matters, that the reader must see the knife before the character does, is buried in clause four. We rewrite these so each panel states the shot first, then who is in it and what they are doing, then the single detail the story depends on, flagged so it cannot be missed. We keep descriptions short, because a long one signals that the writer has not decided what the panel is for. We check the balloon load against the panel count, since seven exchanges in a six-panel page will either shrink the art or spill, and we make sure any panel carrying a story beat the reader must catch is not also the panel carrying three balloons. Artists deliver faster from scripts like this, and the pages read the way the writer intended.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including unannounced projects, licensed properties and material under embargo. We are editors rather than artists, letterers or designers, and we offer no view on visual storytelling decisions. What we can do is make scripts executable, dialogue economical, and continuity consistent across a long run.