The Blog of Gene Luen Yang – Prime Baby Process

1. I start by writing a script. Sometimes this looks slick and formatted, kind of like a screenplay. Sometimes this is barely-legible chicken scratch on napkins. Unfortunately, I don’t have my script from Prime Baby to show you because it was probably chicken scratch on napkins.

I’m hooked on cartoon process blog posts. Here’s one from Gene Luen Yang, the genius behind the wonderful American Born Chinese. He walks you step by step through the creation of one page of Prime Baby, which ran in the New York Times Magazine.