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Not only does this affect the readability of the panel, but it affects the directional motion of the panel, now that it has quite literally been turned on its side. Sometimes these rotated panels even fight against the page turn, or run against the grain of the reading order. One can assume that at the time of Vol. 1's release the task of translating a digital comic formatted for infinite scroll was relatively uncharted territory, and as a result readers got this awkward book. I was beginning to question if there was a way to format this series in a manner that was more recognizable, while still staying true to the original format.
(WARNING, there are a lot of bad words in the script but only because Alison is terribly evil and made me. Ha ha, no just kidding I am a foul-mouthed reprobate who consistently embarrasses his mother. Be warned!)
Also, my frequent co-writer Greg Pak and I wrote a book called Make Comics Like the Pros that takes you through the comics creation process from idea to scripting to pencilling to printing and marketing. You can get it here.
That's so cool! I do love Mouse Guard's square format. I love the panel layout illustration. I have similar panel configuration setups for design projects I do at 8.5 x 11. Except I use a 3x3 and a 2x3 grid, which gives even more combinations. What you say is definitely true. It's really helpful to have that preset structure to work within. It helps you get started, and it has tons of freedom within it. That's really interesting how your path to square started with mini comics on legal! I have mini comics that I drew as a child, and they were drawn on folded 8.5 x 11 booklets. Hmmm yeah that's about all I have to say. Another fabulous behind-the-scenes post!
Square never phased me. I realize it's non-typical, but the crushing mountain of children's books at my home that even Carolus Linnaeus would find hard to work into a dichotomous key softened me up.
I am absolutely overjoyed you shared your 9x9 and combinations chart. Pleased to find you geeky and thorough enough to have it. Thanks!
I often would draw in square paper (and in Europe artists are not restricted to what format to use, as long as it is good)...comics and other stuff and prefer it,...I'm glad you broke the rule in America (even though I've seen it in small press)...now that Strathmore is doing the paper I hate cutting my own I will use theirs, I wish they made it also in 8 x 8 as other companies such as Sennelier make them watercolor paper..anyway, square format feels more sturdy in hands and in my opinion is easier to store in book cases.
A simpler way of creating that feeling is to have your regular sized panels, but the margin between them becomes the tease (or torture). In Killing Stalking, our protagonist (if we can call him that) has just discovered his crush has a helpless girl gagged and tied up in his basement. Still in shock, we scroll through a very long black margin wondering what our protagonist would do, only for it to be revealed his psychotic crush was standing behind him with a baseball bat in hand. This gorgeous technique, though simple in the grand scheme of things, is very difficult (if possible) to pull off in prose, the classic comic book format, or in a movie. This was birthed by creators who have decided to game the sequential art format to create something truly gripping.
In conclusion, stay curious and keep experimenting. My Favorite Thing is Monsters was illustrated with ballpoint pens in a notebook. Maybe your comic could be illustrated on those classic journalist jotters where you can only view a page at a time. You could go the digital route where whenever something scary is about to happen in your story, the computer takes control of the scroll feature.
Murewa Ayodele is a Nigerian comic book enthusiast and NOMMO-nominated comic book writer. His recent works include the sci-fi thriller, NEW MEN, and the action adventure series, My Grandfather Was A God.
The average serialized comic book is 22 pages long. Graphic novels can range anywhere from 48 pages to several hundred. And finally, many smaller comic books exist, especially in zine format. These can be even half the length of your average serialized comic.
Several types of comic book pages exist. The kind most people are familiar with includes several panels with white margins at the edges and white gutters between panels. But there are also splashes, which are illustrations that take up an entire page, and spreads, which take up two side-by-side pages.
You may also want to consider your layouts not as individual pages but as spreads, looking at two consecutive pages together. Making sure that both pages look cohesive and read clearly as a set will make your comic look better overall. For tips on creating rhythm, balance, and contrast in your layouts, check out our article on design principles.
To add your comic panels to the page, click the Image Manager at the top of the sidebar and then click Computer to upload. If you want, you can also click and drag from your desktop files directly into the Image Manager.
To add speech bubbles to your comic, you can use a combination of the Ellipse and Line graphics. Or, use the Search Graphics tool to look through the entire BeFunky Graphic Library for some hand-drawn vector speech bubbles.
To add wider margins as well as the bleed, you can create a new document in the Collage Maker or Graphic Designer with anywhere from 75 to 200 pixels added to both the height and width. (75 is the minimum for the bleed). Then, just add your PNG to the page and resize as needed.
Comic strip formats vary widely from publication to publication, so that the same newspaper comic strip may appear in a half-dozen different formats with different numbers of panels, different sizes of panels and different arrangement of panels.
The first distinction in comic strips formats is between the daily comic strip and the Sunday strip. A daily strip is usually carried on a standard newspaper page, often alongside other strips and non-comics matter (such as crossword puzzles). It is usually printed as either a horizontal strip (longer than it is tall) or a box (roughly square) in black and white, although in recent years syndicates have offered daily strips in color, and newspapers with the ability to print it as such have done so.
There is a much greater variety in Sunday strip formats. Sunday strips are usually in color, published in a special newspaper section, the Sunday comics section. Comics sections usually come in one of two sizes, full page or tabloid. A few newspapers ran their comics in a comic-book size section from the mid-to-late 1970s to the mid-1980s (billed as "collectable comics"), and some strips have appeared in the Sunday magazine of newspapers, such as the 1990 Dick Tracy reprints in the Daily News Magazine of the New York Daily News.
Expendable parts may include a topper (a small separate comic strip, no longer used in mainstream comics), "throwaway" panels (a short throw-away gag, still common), or a large title panel or tier. Due to the desire to re-arrange, comics may use a conventional layout of the panels (as demonstrated below) to allow them to be cut up and displayed on a varied number of tiers.
Full page is a format roughly 20 inches high and 14 inches wide. The Reading Eagle Sunday comics section is full-page size, though today no individual strips are still printed to take up a full page. When Sunday strips first appeared in newspapers, near the beginning of the 20th century, they were usually in the full-page size. Leading full-page Sundays included Thimble Theater, Little Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy and Bringing Up Father. Many full-page comic strips had a topper, a small strip that ran above or occasionally below the main strip, usually by the same artist. The topper on Thimble Theater was Sappo, the topper on Little Orphan Annie was Maw Green and ran at the bottom of the full page. Dick Tracy never had a topper while it was still a full page, but much later it had a topper, Sawdust, which ran at the bottom of the tabloid page.[1]
In the 1940s, comic strips were reduced in size because newspapers wanted to fit more comics per page. Paper rationing during World War II also contributed to this, but was not the primary cause. Many strips were reduced in size to half of a page or one-third of a page. Collectors call these formats "halves" and "thirds". Only a few strips, notably Prince Valiant, were still published in full-page format after World War II. In the mid-1950s, there were a few attempts to revive the full-page Sunday comic strip, notably Lance and Johnny Reb and Billy Yank. These were not a commercial success and were reduced to half-page format after a short full-page run. The last full-page Sunday strip was Prince Valiant, which continued in full-page format in some newspapers until 1970. New Prince Valiant stories still appear in newspapers today, but in half-page or smaller formats.
Half page is a Sunday strip format that is roughly 10 inches high and 14 inches wide. Today, it is the largest and most complete format for most Sunday strips, including Peanuts, Prince Valiant, and Doonesbury. The half-page Sunday strip was introduced in the 1920s to fit two Sunday strips on a single page. The Phantom, Mandrake the Magician and Terry and the Pirates were introduced in this format. Other strips, such as Flash Gordon and Blondie had panels rearranged, cropped or removed to make the full page fit in a smaller size. In the 1940s, most newspapers wanted more comics per page, so they often reduced the size. Beginning about this time, the half page became the standard size, and the third-of-a-page strip was introduced, fitting three strips on each page, one above another. A half page typically had three tiers; the third page either reduced, rearranged and cropped these panels, as seen in Li'l Abner strips, or more commonly, just dropped the top tier, as was the case with Peanuts. Today, only the Reading Eagle and a few other newspapers run any of their Sunday strips in the complete half-page format. The Sunday Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was so popular that the artist insisted that it fill half of a page, although many editors ran a shrunken version of the same strip. The only other strip that also required the half-page format, though not necessarily the half-page size, was Opus;[1] both it and Calvin and Hobbes have since ended.
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