June 2011
my favorite manga-ka
Takeru Kobayashihey dude, do you have any advice on making comic layouts? any rules to work by or tricks to try?
I went to school of visual arts for 2 years in the cartooning program where they taught me all these rules for layouts and how big the gutters between panels should be and all this other bullshit, and then I dropped out because I realized there really is no wrong way to do the technical aspects of comics.
I guess my best advice would be to make sure people will see what you want them to see, not to leave out any details that will make the comic too confusing if absent, and to remember that pacing is really important always. This is all stuff I still am trying to master as well.
And read scott mccloud’s understanding comics, it brings up a lot of really great points.
