CXC 2022: Principles of Page and Panel Layout with Ben Towle

Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) does a great job of filming and making public a ton of its programming post-show and among the current lot of videos posted from the just-concluded 2022 show is my Talk and Teach program, “Principles of Page and Panel Layout.” 

The video has gotten a surprising amount of views/traction, so I thought I’d repost it here, but with a few additional goodies, which you’ll find below. The top link is the PPT slide deck and the links below are things that I refer to in my talk, listed in the order in which I mention them.

Notes:

Principles of Page and Panel Layout [pptx]

Case, planche, recit: lire la bande dessinée  by Benoît Peeters

Rodolphe Töpffer

Math nerds figure out how many page layouts are possible with a 9-panel grid. Larsen’s revised chart included. 

Rachel Thorn (sadly, her original Twitter thread on the “T system” has apparently been deleted

Neil Cohn/The Visual Linguist

Rob Liefeld, The Enchantress’s Enchanted Butt, and Comics Lettering

Eddie Campbell – The last word in Speech Balloons. (rule #3)

Eddie Campbell – The feet rule (rule # 10)

Rabbit Head by Rebecca Dart

Parallel Stories on Separate Horizontal Tiers

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