Words in the bubbles

I'm an electrical engineer at a company in Timișoara and my friend Bogdan draws, and we have been making comics together in an extremely informal sense since university. The sense is informal because we have started four separate comics and completed none of them. The fantasy I write for our current project is high fantasy in the genuine sense: multiple kingdoms, a moral structure that isn't simply good versus evil, magic with costs. Bogdan draws the pages when I have finished scripts. He is faster than I am and has more patience. The obstacle is consistently the writing. I write scripts during my lunch hour and on weekend mornings and it is slow because I have strong opinions about dialogue and even stronger opinions about scene structure and these opinions conflict regularly. What I find genuinely interesting about writing comics as opposed to prose fiction is the relationship between what the script says and what happens in the image. There are things I can write that will become something more interesting in Bogdan's hands than I could have imagined. There are things I write that he tells me cannot be drawn. Both kinds of constraint are productive. The current story is set in a world with no magic at all except for a single, specific exception, and the exception is the premise, and I am finally happy with how the premise is built. We will probably finish this one.