How much of the script is dialogue, and how much is description of action?
As much as you need for each. There’s no magic ratio. In general, an action heavy scene will have more description than dialog while a character or plot heavy scene will have more dialog than description. But even this isn’t necessarily true depending on your action, your characters, and your execution. Sometimes I’ll have a panel description that’s a single sentence. Sometimes it’ll take up half a page. On average, the longer Scott and I have worked together the shorter my descriptions have become. We’re more comfortable working together now, so we know what to expect from one another. Earlier in our partnership, if I wanted a scene in a laboratory I’d have gone into detail about how organized or disorganized it ought to be; if it appears clean, well-lit, kinds of equipment and so on. Now I can just say “mad scientist lab” and I know what I’m getting. Not specifically, of course, but we’ve done enough mad scientist labs that I have a reasonable expectation. For example, look at the sc
