Art of Comics Issue #3: Page Design
Categories: Course Materials

PDF of the booklet from Saturday’s class on Page Design: classthree-slideshow.pdf

I’ve left the file size large so that you can actually read the comics in there

    Contents

  1. Cover: JH Williams III, Detective Comics #861, written by Greg Rucka
  2. Chris Ware – “You Must Think I Enjoy Immersing Myself in Self Pity…” from Quimby the Mouse
  3. Charles Forbell – Naughty Pete
  4. Winsor McCay – Little Nemo in Slumberland
  5. George Herriman – Krazy Kat
  6. Harry Tuthill, The Bungle Family
  7. Bill Sienkiewicz, Big Numbers #2, written by Alan Moore
  8. Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
  9. Dave Sim – Cerebus #28
  10. CLAMP – Clover
  11. Osamu Tezuka – Hi no Tori (Phoenix: Resurrection)
  12. Henrik Rohr – Storms
  13. Chris Bachalo – Generation Next #4, written by Scott Lobdell
  14. Kyle Baker – Why I Hate Saturn
  15. Andy Bleck – Untitled
  16. Dorothy Gambrell – “Marxist-Waltonist,” Cat and Girl
  17. Kevin Huizenga – Fight or Run: Shadow of the Chopper
  18. Marc Bell – “The DUHY Science Network”
  19. David Mack – Kabuki #7, vol. 7
  20. Gustave Verbeek – The Upside-Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo
  21. Back Cover: JH Williams III, Detective Comics #861, written by Greg Rucka

The drawings become symbols that are arranged on the page (and within the panels) in the most logical way to make the reading of the story work; you place the cartooned images together in a way that does what you want them to do. You aren’t concerned with drawing a proper street scene so much as you are concerned with moving the reader’s eye around the page in the way you wish it to move. Think of the cartoon language as a series of characters (letters) being purposefully arranged to make words.~Seth

BONUS: Check out this post by Bryan Lee O’Malley (Scott Pilgrim series) for tips of page flow with word balloons and lettering!

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