…And here’s page 2 inked. I’m not as happy with the overall drawing on this page as I am with the first, but I like the panel layout. In most of my work I tend to stick to a pretty standard grid based on either 9 panels per page, or 6 panels per page. So many cartoonists try to get creative with their panel layouts and wind up doing nothing but confusing the reader, so I tend to err on the side of consertavitism when it comes to layout. Panel layout is like the bassline in a song: if people notice it, you need to tone it back a bit.
That being said though, I’ve been really enjoying Roger Langridge’s brilliant Fred the Clown book (I’d link to his publisher, Fantagraphics, but like the fools they are, there’s virtually no mention of him on their site). He uses some really interesting panel layouts that never get in the way of the story. So, in this story I’m goin’ crazy I tell’s ya, and using all kinds of circle panels and borderless panels and whatnot…
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