Sometimes a writer or another artist (such as an art director) will include basic layouts, called breakdowns, to assist the penciller in scene composition.
In the course of his life he was an ornithologist, explorer, journalist, broadcaster, soldier, guerrilla, ethnologist, museum curator, archaeologist, documentarian, film-maker, conservationist, and writer.
It was horrible, a writer said, the 400 miserable, helpless, emaciated specimens of humanity, subjected for months to the malarial atmosphere of the river bottom.