{"id":28,"date":"2005-01-20T06:09:11","date_gmt":"2005-01-21T03:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=28"},"modified":"2005-01-20T06:10:04","modified_gmt":"2005-01-21T03:10:04","slug":"boxing-bucket-pg-2-pt-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Bucket Pg. 2, pt IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;And here&#8217;s page 2 inked.  I&#8217;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.  <\/p>\n<p>That being said though, I&#8217;ve been really enjoying Roger Langridge&#8217;s brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marsimport.com\/display_comic.php?ID=8267\" rel=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">Fred the Clown<\/a> book (I&#8217;d link to his publisher, Fantagraphics, but like the fools they are, there&#8217;s virtually no mention of him on their site).  He uses some really interesting panel layouts that <em>never<\/em> get in the way of the story.  So, in this story I&#8217;m goin&#8217; <strong>crazy<\/strong> I tell&#8217;s ya, and using all kinds of circle panels and borderless panels and whatnot&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"upload_images\/pg_2.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/pg_2_th.gif\" alt=\"bucket pg 1 inked\" title=\"bucket pg 1 inked\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:10px\">(Click for larger image)<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;And here&#8217;s page 2 inked. I&#8217;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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=28\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}