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Paneling

Bitter Root pencilled by Sanford Greene

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Panel

  • an individual frame or drawing in a series of frames or drawings

  • a single drawing of a frozen moment

  • putting panels together helps create context for the frozen images

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Gutter

  • empty space between panels

  • forces the reader to actively participate in reading comic

  • reader determines what happens between frames, connects the frozen images to create a continuous story (called closure)

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Panel Transition Types

  1. Moment to Moment
  2. Action to Action
  3. Subject to Subject
  4. Scene to Scene
  5. Aspect to Aspect

  • Symbolic
  • Non-Sequitur

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Moment to Moment

  • Least amount of closure the reader must make

  • Shows time passing in small increments

  • Similar to slow motion in movies

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Action to Action

  • Encompasses a little more time and space than a moment to moment panel
  • Shows the beginning and end of an action, not every step
  • Difference between moment to moment and action to action can be fuzzy – moment to moment often depicts action too

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Subject to Subject

  • takes place in 1 scene

  • moves from character or object to another within that scene

  • moves narration ahead

  • dialogue helps to unite panels

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Scene to Scene

  • scene is a sequence that takes place in one continuous time period, and in one place

  • moves from one place or time to another

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Aspect to Aspect

  • shows multiple views of the same scene without providing any linear narrative direction
  • deepens the mood or feeling of a sequence
  • avoids narrative progress, unlike subject to subject transition
  • typically silent