Comics Script for Frank Yerby’s “The Foxes of Harrow”

A few years back, I created my first comic alongside my students. When I created my comic on Lillian Smith, I thought about the script and the layout; however, I did not sit down and type out the script. Instead, I worked within the Comic Book! app to layout the pages and insert the text. I knew what I wanted it to look like as I went along, and I was using pictures for the panels. This led me to start thinking about writing out a script for a comic. I’ve done a couple now, and today I want to share a five page script I wrote for the opening of Frank Yerby’s The Foxes of Harrow, a novel that I think would do well as as a graphic novel. These pages focus on the prologue to the novel, a section I have written about before. There are no illustrations here yet, but hopefully one day that will change. Enjoy!

Setting: 1940

Page One

Two panels (one full page and one inset bottom right)

Panel One: Ariel view of Mississippi River “above” New Orleans (around Poydras or Belle Chase below NOLA) with motorboat, possibly in three or four stages, travelling the river itself. This would be like the satellite view on Google Maps, overgrown foliage, sparse habitation, but some signs of growth.