Creating Comic Books! What’s in the Credits?

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8 • 818 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Plot! Breakdowns! Layouts! Embellisher! Script! Inks! Penciler! You’ve seen all these tags and more in the credits of your comic books over the years but what do they really mean? Who is doing what on each page? What is the pay structure? The royalty incentives? The creator sharing? As a veteran of 35 years, Rob breaks it all down as only he can! Creating Comics made easy!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Rob Observations. I'm Rob Leifeld. I am so excited to talk to you guys.
0:09.1	Today is going to be a fun show. It is a show that I think more now than ever is needed based on
0:15.2	just everything that I've been seeing online on all the different social media platforms as people discuss the art form
0:23.3	of comics out loud and especially as we're getting into credits and credits on this show and
0:28.2	credits on this show and who's going to get credits on this show in that film but the credits
0:32.4	come from the comic books as we know so if if you're looking for some guy, some woman, some dude, some lady
0:42.7	to have their name in the very minuscule need a, you know,
0:49.2	microscopic lens to read when it comes on the screen,
0:53.5	when you are looking for their name in regards to
0:56.2	like, say a Wanda vision, when you're doing that, that credit that you're seeking means they
1:01.2	contributed in somehow to the story, to the character, and so what you're seeking is from
1:08.1	the credit they received on the comic and how that translates into the credit they received
1:14.9	on the show. Well, here's the deal. If you have read comics, as I have for 46 years, if you
1:21.3	have done comics, or if you've read comics recently or done comics recently credits continue to evolve
1:29.2	they continue to change this really isn't a case of who gets what it's what the hell did these
1:35.0	credits mean in the first place if you crack a comic book you're going to see plot script writer
1:43.5	penciller breakdowns layouts anchor inks finishes finisher embellishes embellishment what do all of those
1:55.0	mean in the first place well i'm going to walk you through so many of the definitions are our own comic book glossary.
2:03.7	I think we all need a refresher. We can all use it because not only do those specific credits
2:09.6	denote a very specific assignment, they also contribute to payment, royalties, the page rate, what it says on the voucher, and
2:21.6	participation going forward. And you wouldn't know that because these credits are very confusing,
2:29.6	especially in a world where we're just used to seeing, you know, a movie or a TV show and it says
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