Notes

December 15, 2015:

But whuuy does he need to get the first pebble into the crack, Vick? Tell us whuuaayy! That would be me if I didn’t already know what the next couple of pages were going to be.

Did you know, that when you’re planning a visual story like a comic book, you don’t just plan what the reader is concentrating on (a character, text box etc), you even plan what their peripheral vision might see. When a reader starts at the top of a new page, their eyes also scan the shapes and colours in panels to come, and the brain starts anticipating how to take them there smoothly. This subconscious reading ahead is what gives comics their interesting cinematic flow, and not just feel like a bunch of images in boxes!