Core Elements of Comic Book and Audio Podcast Series Writing with Saladin Ahmed (Spider-Man: Miles Morales/Batman Unburied)

Join Award-winning writer Saladin Ahmed as he teaches the fundamentals of writing for Comic Books and Audio Podcast Series)!

Session curriculum to include:

-where do you start your journey (everyone's starting point is different)

-coming up with characters (thinking of them as PEOPLE)

-devising a story (basics of stakes, arcs, etc)

-what does a comics script look like (focus on format)

-how does the professional world of comics work (quick intro to the industry)

*Saladin will use miles, wolverine, batman, harley quinn to show licensed work, and abbott & drac to show creating original work

Link to Saladin's work for Marvel: https://www.marvel.com/comics/creators/13081/saladin_ahmed

Link to Saladin's work on Batman Unburied: https://open.spotify.com/show/3pUWoZ6fC2qA02D3X0CeMb

Saladin Ahmed Bio

Saladin Ahmed is an acclaimed novelist and poet with a reputation as one of the comics industry’s brightest talents. His fiction has been anthologized by George R.R. Martin, performed by LeVar Burton, and cited in the Dungeons and Dragons Player’s Handbook. His novel Throne of the Crescent Moon, praised by NPR as 'Lord of the Rings meets the Arab Spring,' was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and British Fantasy Awards, and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. The critical praise continued wth his Marvel Comics debut, Black Bolt, which won the 2018 Eisner Award for Best New Series.

Ahmed went on to chart the adventures of two of Marvel’s brightest young heroes in Miles Morales: Spider-Man and The Magnificent Ms. Marvel, and to co-create the Stoker-nominated horror comic Abbott at Boom Studios. Recent work has included the creator owned series Starsigns and Terrorwar, as well as episodes of Spotify's phenomenally popular podcast Batman Unburied.