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Understanding Comic Craft: The Art of Panel Transitions and Reader Engagement

This analysis delves into the intricate elements of comics, focusing on panel transitions like moment-to-moment, action-to-action, and more. Essential concepts of reader involvement, closure, and the complexity of arranging panels highlight the artistry behind storytelling in comics. Insights on how emotions and sensory responses are portrayed through visual mediums, including the role of word balloons, provide a deeper understanding of comic art. Discover the delicate balance between visual storytelling and the reader's imagination.

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Understanding Comic Craft: The Art of Panel Transitions and Reader Engagement

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  1. Visual AnalysisPart II Never mistake the message—for the messenger. Source: Understanding comics The Invisible Art Scott McClou

  2. Panel to Panel Transitions • Moment-to-moment: easy to attain closure • Action-to-Action: single subject • Subject-to-Subject: while staying within a scene or idea—requires reader involvement to be successful. • Scene-to-Scene: Deductive Reasoning needed to transport the reader across significant distances of time and space. • Aspect-to-Aspect: bypasses time for the most part and sets a wandering eye on different aspects of place, idea or mood. • Non-Sequitur: no logical relationships between panels.

  3. Moment to Moment

  4. Action to Action

  5. Subject to Subject

  6. Deductive Reasoning Scene to Scene

  7. Aspect to AspectBypasses time for the most part and sets a wandering eye on different aspects of a place, idea, or mood.

  8. Non-sequitur which offers no logical relationship between panels

  9. Figure Ground Relationships and Negative Space

  10. How we all began telling stories

  11. Closure • We assume as readers that we will know what order to read panels in but the business of arranging those panels is actually quite complex. • Some artists are deliberately ambiguous. • Closure can be a powerful force within panels as well as between them, when artists choose to show only a small piece of the picture.

  12. Closure • Whatever the mysteries within each panel, it’s the power of closure between panels that I find the most interesting. • There’s something strange and wonderful that happens in the blank ribbon of paper. • We already know that comics as the mind to work as a sort of in-betweener—filling in the gaps between panels as an animator might—but I believe there’s till more to it than that.

  13. Time Frames

  14. Transitions and Time

  15. Polyptych: time and space merge

  16. Can Emotion Be Made Visible? • The idea that a picture can evoke an emotional or sensual response in the viewer is vital to the art of comics.

  17. Word Balloon • By far the most widely-used most complex and most versatile of comics many synaesthetic icons is the ever-present, ever-popular word balloon. • Over the years comics creators have struggled with dozens of variations in their desperate attempts to depict sound in a strictly visual medium. • Variations in balloon shape and the symbols that go inside the balloon are constantly being invented or appropriated.

  18. When Bleeds are used (picture running of the page) the effect of timelessness is strengthened

  19. Establishing shotLong ShotMedium shot

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