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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
Creator
Thank you to so many of you, starting with my most loyal readers, MM, J, and F! For your feedback, on and offline, and on IG (@mac_mccool_comics), thanks to Ryan N. Long, monicasivart, les Green Fathers, LemonadeDinosaur, Zerachnid, ZeCrazyAngel, QueenLizzyReader, shoobiejoobie, sogon_the_dragon, Dragonfire5, Tami4iAngel, RizzleToony, tuesdaysart, + many more that I can't fit under 400 characters
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