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Comics Tips For YOU!
TEXT - Use Comics Fonts
IMAGES - Backgrounds When? For Settings (Time+Place)
IMAGES - Backgrounds When? For Mood
STORY - Traveling: Mostly Boring
LAYOUT - Match Text to Balloon Shape
LAYOUT - Avoid Cloddish Layouts
LAYOUT - Keep Panels Apart with Gutters
LAYOUT - Small Gutters for Beat-to-Beat Action
LAYOUT - Large Gutters for Scene to Scene
LAYOUT - Medium Gutters for Beat Slowdowns
TEXT - Name Names Often Enough
LAYOUT - XL Gutters for Extra Drama or Delay
IMAGES - Foreground as Boundary
LAYOUT - Aiming Balloon Pointers
TEXT - Timing Speech Pauses with Punctuation
LAYOUT - Bad Pointer Manners
IMAGES - Foreground as Stencil-Frames
TEXT - Just Enough Leading
LAYOUT - Timing Speech Pauses with Balloons
IMAGES - Why Panel Borders
LAYOUT - Safety Rings for Text
LAYOUT - Control Pacing with Text & Images
CAREER - Short Stories to Begin
STORY - Huge Story Exit-Ramp
TEXT-How Many Lines per Balloon
LAYOUT - Borderless Panels
STORY - Start with a Hook
STORY - Hook the Brain
STORY - Hook the Heart
STORY - Hook the Eyes (Ouch!)
IMAGES - Comics Perspective
TEXT - Illusion of Volume
IMAGES - Classic Shots for Openings
TEXT-Basic Balloons
NEWS - Already HOW LONG???
STORY - Off Panel Action
TEXT - Source & Path of SFXs
IMAGES - Subtle Motion in Comics
LAYOUT - When Do Square Panels Work?
LAYOUT - Balloons Placement in Scroll Comics
LAYOUT - Balloon Placement in Print Comics
IMAGES - Foregrounds to Reframe
TEXT - Text-Image Redundancy
IMAGES - Spotlighting Points of Interest
TEXT - Captions Tell
IMAGES - Motion "Strike the Pose"
CHARACTERS - Cast for Contrast
TEXT - Less Common Balloons
STORY - Start Where the Drama Brews
PROCESS - Trust The Process
IMAGES - Abstract Expressive Backgrounds
IMAGES - Human Likeness Attracts
LAYOUT - Eye Flow Gravity
IMAGES - Color for Emotion in Scenes
IMAGES - Picking Emotional Colors
IMAGES - Eye-Level Angles
STORY - Big Question
IMAGES - Round Panels Stand Out
IMAGES - Mapping with High Angles
LAYOUT - Balloon Layout Principles
IMAGES - Panels That Look Wide
TEXT - Unheard Voices for Characters
NEWS - YOUR TURN!! Ask for Tips!
IMAGES - Diagonals in Compositions
TEXT - Good Titles (Part 1)
TEXT - Good Titles (Part 2)
TEXT - Writing Distinct Voices




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For more ways to control the pacing of your webcomics, check out episodes 9, 10, 11, and 13 of "Comics Tips." They show how far apart your panels should be (gutter distance between panels).
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