Overview
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Learn the art and craft of comic book layout. Find out how to achieve a dynamic balance between the art and text, including narration, dialog, and sound effects.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Exercise files and what you should know
- Introduction to comic terms
- Left to right and top to bottom
- Using a script to begin laying out your page
- Space for speech
- Roughing in balloon placements
- Effective pauses: When less is more
- When you say nothing at all
- Fast energetic scenes
- Conversations and useful overcrowding
- Caption boxes for narration, location, and time
- Inner dialogue
- Examples of good sound effects
- Challenge: Add special effects sounds
- Solution: Add special effects sounds
- Sketching out sounds
- Setting up an InDesign document
- Formatting text from the script
- Building balloons and boxes
- Dropping text
- Adding tails and finalizing your page
- What’s next?
- Creating a comic page: Start to finish
