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More fun with page layouts today. I guess this is what happens when you read “Making Comics” by Scott McCloud and then binge-read a bunch of comics and manga with his info in the back of your mind.
“Making Comics” is great, by the way. I highly recommend it. It digs more into the “how to USE the art” instead of the more typical “how to DO the art”. I’m pretty sure Charlie/GroovyKinda mentioned it a while back, too. Glad I finally took a look.
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Holy crap, I almost forgot. DadRockGirlPop is a year old today! And it is the longest comic or comic series I’ve ever done (by number of pages, anyway). To all you regulars – thanks for sticking around. You’re wonderful 😉
Layout came out fine if you ask me. Got a nice flowing feeling to it. And not always having the exact same panel layout usually does a comic good. Unless you’re making a yonkoma or something like that, obviously.
Thanks. Yeah some comics do just fine with the same layout everyday. Bloom County did okay.
I’ve been reading for a long while now (six, seven months. Maybe more) and just wanted to thank you for making this. I really like it.
MeerKarl out
Thanks for reading! Glad you like it.
Congratulations and happy birthday!
Yeah, “Making Comics” is great, along with “Comics and Sequential Art” by Will Eisner, and “Making Comics the Marvel Way.”
You really opened up the art on this one-perspective, deep focus, different head angles-I love Rachel in panel 5;that’s a difficult angle to make work-and really nice pacing.
Oh, and making all the panels sit on top of that main, quiet panel: brilliant. It really works.
Thanks! I have Eisner’s book too (all three actually), but I haven’t been able to get into it. McCloud’s is just a lot easier to digest. And I appreciate the fact that he uses many different artists’ work as examples.
So. Follow-up:
When I got home today I took another look at those Eisner books. They’re still a lot more dense than McCloud’s books, but clearly there is a lot of really good info there. I’m gonna have to start wading through them.