
Job:05-19413 Title:Creating Comics
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each page. The grid is pleasing to the eye, but also knowing
exactly how much space I have to work with enables me
to edit dialogue and action down to the essentials. For the
Casual Poet, I use twelve panels. When writing a piece,
I tend to start with dialogue—I put the characters in the
situation and see what happens, then whittle away until it
fits into the prescribed spaces. Occasionally, I thumbnail
the entire page beforehand, but it seems most of the time I
prefer to just dive right in with the pencils.
The first thing I always do ...