Graphic novels are the perfect meeting place of words and pictures and as such offer an excellent way of getting visually-oriented students to read. Teacher-librarians picked up on this a long time ago and have been adding graphic novels to their collection in ever increasing numbers. In this article, the author discusses how teachers and librarians can tap into comics as a way of getting students into "writing." Using graphic novel storytelling or comics is a fantastic way of teaching students some of the fundamentals about writing. They learn the importance of conflict, the use of dialogue to reveal character, and how crucial rewriting is to the writing process. The author presents three exercises that are built around basic writing skills and are easily transferred from the world of comics to traditional prose fiction: (1) dialogue; (2) conflict; and (3) autobiographical storytelling. (Contains 2 figures.)