Editing Script breakdown (section)

==Comics==
In [[comic book]]s, it is the process of determining how each action, character, and piece of dialogue described in the [[Script (comics)|script]] will be placed visually on a page. In the studio system that dominated mass-market comic-book production from the 1940s through the 1970s, breakdowns were done by the [[penciller]] or by a separate breakdown artist, rarely by the scriptwriter; in some cases, breakdowns were done from a rough story outline before the dialogue was written (the "[[Marvel method]]"). Later comics writers such as [[Alan Moore]] and [[Neil Gaiman]], influenced by cinematic technique, began to include more layout details within their scripts. Cartoonists who both write and draw their own work sometimes begin with a script and do their own breakdowns, and sometimes work through drawings without a separate script.{{fact|date=December 2021}}