#sequential storytelling

[momopatchi]

comic assignment about a dysfuntional butch garage band "PALEOBIDO"

[terror-billie]

The Nib is no longer going to make new comics and they've put all their PDFs up for free, with an option to make a donation to the archive if you like.

The Nib is an online satire comic created by Matt Bors, who made the "we should improve society somewhat" comic

The comics feature a variety of authors telling their stories and making political satire.

[xjdkg89q]

Study for my uni assignment .... (this is my oc)

[fleshisfun]

made a little personal comic for my class :0) this one has a happy ending lol

[idahocomicsgroupinc]

Sensational Master: The Art of Rafael Gallur

This a very important art book that NEEDS to be published. It is Sensational Master: The Art of Rafael Gallur. Gallur is a Mexican painter that did covers for Sensacional De Luchas and many more popular Mexican comic books. This book is dangerously close to not being funded on Kickstarter so please, if you love art and think the preservation of obscure forms of the 9th art (comic books) is important, please consider funding this project. You will be glad you did.

[duckmeat13]

Wanted to take some time out of my day to gush over this one particular page of Chainsaw Man Chapter 137 (the most recent release as of this post) because of how genius it’s paneling and use of the comics medium is:

It’s very easy to think of comics as a combination of pictures with text bubbles/balloons/captions, but this takes it to a level I’ve rarely seen. Thought and speech bubbles are probably some of the most iconic elements of comic art beyond the single panel itself, but Fujimoto manages to COMBINE these two elements of comic design to create a sense of visual storytelling that only comics can.

To break it down, we see actions that the reader would normally assume to be reality itself, Denji’s thoughts and actions in real time. The pages prior to this one don’t imply anything other than the very real actions of the story are happening within the pages of the comic…

…despite this being the exact opposite of what is happening, as shown when we expand our view outwards to the next “panel” of sorts, or at least the next action being shown. If these were shown side by side in square panels, we’d assume that they happened one after another - Denji tries to rebut the mystery girl’s advances only to act purely on instinct in the next panel. Not very compelling for a character we’ve seen grow and change over the entirety of Chainsaw Man’s first major arc.

However, the use of the thought bubble AS A PANEL ITSELF transforms this into something that much greater. Denji has actions he’d like to do. He wants to have self-respect. He wants to be able to reject the advances of a women who clearly doesn’t have the best in mind for him (which is confirmed to an extent at the conclusion of the chapter). However, how Denji THINKS he should act is different from how he ACTUALLY ACTS. Despite seemingly knowing better, Denji goes ahead and takes the mystery girl’s bet. He knows he’s falling into old habits but for one reason or another choose not to. And THAT is what I find so genius about this single page.

Denji as a character has transformed from Chapter 1 in a very realistic way. He’s more aware of his needs as a human being and wants a better future for himself and his loved ones. However, his mind hasn’t really caught up with his body. Despite the danger it poses, he still WANTS to be Chainsaw Man. He wants to be idolized and worshiped and have women hanging off of his shoulders because he’s a goddamn superhero who eats other Devils for breakfast and looks cool as hell while doing it. As a result, his body hasn’t caught up with his mind - despite the events of Part 1 deeply changing Denji’s life from a physical and emotional perspective (now being the breadwinner of an apartment with a bunch of dogs, as well as a cat and a college-bound Nayuta), he’s still trying to do what he’s always done - kill Devils and try to live a fulfilling life.

As a result, what Denji recognizes as his wants and needs are separated from what he actually does, which this single pair of contrasting images communicates gracefully.

Denji knows he should stand up for himself more. That he shouldn’t be so easily convinced by a pretty face. But his thoughts and feelings are directly contrasted by what he actually does… and it’s not even clear why he does it! And yet, this message couldn’t be better communicated through the medium of sequential, visual art. Mic drop.

TL;DR The above page from Chainsaw Man Part 2 manages to completely explain Denji’s struggles as a character by nesting speech bubbles describing what he thinks he does within a thought bubble, that then shows what he actually does. It pulls off illustrating Denji’s contrasting character elements as well as subverting audience expectations about him in an intelligent and artistic way. Speech bubbles without speech might be the best thing since sliced bread.

[julianova44]

Comics are hard sometimes

I was giving some feedback to another comics artist, and starting writing out a whole thing about how making visual communication is difficult and deeply rooted in both cultural norms and norms of the medium, but then I realized that was way more off-topic and decided to write out my thoughts here.

One of the people I like to run my art by is my dad. This is not because he's particularly well versed as an art critic. He is a complex human with fascinating tastes and a lot to say about a lot of media in a lot of contexts, but in visual art he tends towards the representative and simple. He is not a comics reader. He is almost certainly allistic, while I am not. He is a nerd, but not a pop-culture nerd.

So if he's not the kind of person who would typically interact with the sort of visual language I rely on all the time, why is he so helpful?

The reason I often run pages by him is *because* he is not a comics reader. He doesn't have the shared mental icon library that a lot people who have been reading comics for a long time have. He is as close as possible to what in a scientific study might be called treatment naive, where the treatment is comics.

My dad is my control group, because I can show pages to friends who think similarly and have read a lot of the same stuff and who all have similar shorthands, even if we don't know it, in how we see and process comics, and they'll see and understand in a similar way that I see and understand, and don't see the areas where maybe I rely too much on a visual shorthand, where I've used the conventions of the medium or genre in a way that excludes people who are only just starting to read modern comics. He has questions, and critiques, (some of which I decide to address and others I don't), that might not occur to others.

Comics- art in general, really- is often an exercise in trying to predict how others will interpret what you have made. With comics and visual art, there is a lot more automatic processing compared to, for example, prose, just due to how vision works. In parsing prose, you can say "A broken table"; but in a visual medium, a broken table is full of angles not normally seen, and perspectives that are hard to parse if we weren't expecting it.

This is a bit of a ramble, but the main point I am getting to is: Sometimes what I think is obvious on a page really isn't, and the kind of feedback that helps me refine my art is often from people who don't know what they're looking at.

[raritymybeloved]

So this is a little outside what I usually post on this blog. But I need this for personal research purposes and have the most followers on this site.

[messy26]

🎬🖋️ Week 2 Reflection: The Emergence of Caricatures & Comic Strips 🖋️🎬

Assignment 2.6 – Visual Narrative Foundations From Ponchi to Panels: A Visual History Quiz RecapA 30-question test exploring historical figures, styles, and cultural shifts behind the development of comics and sequential art 🧩 Assignment OverviewThis test spanned key contributors to early caricature and comic strip traditions, tracing visual storytelling from Francis Barlow and Hogarth’s…

[i-guess-i-like-turtles-now]

This comic layout is inspiring!

"Caretaker" - Twitter Donzine piece.

Comic for a zine, remind me to never do it again.

I tried something in a more art nouveau style 🐢

Both pages together

[thewriterworm]

The Guru

Well, I guess, it's time I shaved my legs too. Sigh.

[omorales81]

This is Mau Mora doing Mau Mora things! 😱💥❄️ #MakeComics #SequentialArt #ComicArt #SciFi #BlueLines #IceCold @maumoraart

[the-cinnamontography-is-amazing]

I’ve been thinking this all night. It shoulda been Andor blasting the Death Star 😭

[erimakierimaki]

⚠️This is an unofficial, non-commercial fan comic based on NARUTO (by Masashi Kishimoto / SHUEISHA).

It is created with respect for SHUEISHA’s copyright and derivative work guidelines.

⚠️This is a work in progress.

I’m planning to compile it into a 30-page booklet.

【Story Summary】

Shortly after joining the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, Mangetsu Hozuki is assigned a covert mission to infiltrate the Hidden Leaf Village under the bloody code of Kirigakure:

“Eliminate any enemy, even a child.”

Haunted by memories of his younger brother Suigetsu, Mangetsu hesitates during the mission.

By chance, a young Sasuke Uchiha appears, mistaking Mangetsu—shrouded in the Hidden Mist—for his older brother Itachi, and clings to him.

Startled, Mangetsu notices the Uchiha crest on Sasuke’s back just before Itachi himself appears and the battle begins.

As Mangetsu watches Itachi fighting to protect Sasuke, he sees in the boy’s eyes a reflection of his own bond with Suigetsu.

In the chaos of battle, Mangetsu realizes: if their positions were reversed, Suigetsu might one day find himself in Sasuke’s place—hunted by enemy shinobi.

With that thought, Mangetsu chooses not to harm Sasuke and vanishes into the mist without a word.

[jayyoocomics]

Work

[heretherebeturtles-comic]

Your comics are so well done !! I adore the compositions, the linework and colors :D The way you approach compositions is so fun like the panels tripping over each other when Raph stumbles or the way the panel is shaped like the tunnel they’re walking through. I really look forward to seeing more of your work both in this fanwork and any future comics you work on :]

I have fun with the page layouts, composition, and panel boxes ((o(^∇^)o))

TBH one of my favourite pastimes is staring at comics made by more seasoned professional comic artists; it's so interesting to see how they layout their pages and all the fun ways the panel boxes themselves can be used as an addition to the art rather than just what contains it.

Stopping myself before I start rambling. It's so nice knowing there are folks who enjoy and notice things like that!!! Haha thank you!!