Rage, Bane of Demons is a script I have written years ago. My goal at the time was to earn my life as a french graphic novel writer (I was young and naive), and I had no idea about how to format a script for presenting it to a french publisher. In doubt, I layed out the story page by page and panel by panel, with all of the dialogs. I added an extended summary of the story and a description of each character, and sent it to all of the french publishers I knew.

And nobody wanted it.

Almost twenty years later, I reread this old script and haven’t found it so bad. I wouldn’t want it to just lie on my hard drive, but obviously couldn’t send it again to the same publishers, then wait for them to say “No”. So I decided to look for a penciler, and choose the artist who would best fit with the tone of the story, then publish the finished graphic novel online.

A year later, Rage Website, the official website of the comic book which didn’t exist, finally found his penciler, but there is no reason to just delete these few pages of script, or the galleries. You can still send me your rendition of the characters and of the first pages of story.

Character design has already been made for you, but you can draw the characters any way you like! I have created a panel-by-panel layout of the script so as to give the artist as much info as possible to draw the story, but in the end, the layout depends on the style of the artist. So if you would like to put four panels in a page for which I imagined six, no problem. The only important thing is to respect the flow of the story, and manage space for dialogs in each panel. For more technical info, go to the Before you begin page.

Click here to display or download the pdf of the first pages of script, and here to check the characters sheets. To open pdf documents, you can use the free software Adobe Reader available here.

Have fun!