Comments on: Learn More About Building Comics: What Works and What Doesn’t

By: DeBT

DeBT — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 01:49:39 +0000

The interesting thing about Jon Morris’ 15th panel, is how Naruto manages to make it work better than conventional S-hero comics.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:44:05 +0000

ha! I didn’t know about that one, thanks for sharing. The punchline gets me.

By: Ben Towle

Ben Towle — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:32:14 +0000

Yeah, but what about Ivan Brunetti’s “22 Panels that Always Work (Sometimes)”? Do I even need to say that it’s NSFW?

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By: Russell

Russell — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:48:52 +0000

I’m pleased to see that I don’t utilize most of the “bad panels” Morris points out.

I like silent panels to show a pause, though. Usually it’s just one, not a longer series. And I don’t do it often.

By: Thad

Thad — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:14:42 +0000

Good links; thanks.

(I DO think some of Morris’s panels work all right, in moderation — the identical panels showing passage of time can be effective — but yeah, they’ve gotten so overused that they’ve lost whatever punch they may have had.)