Nearly as important as how a single panel is composed is how you design the composition of a page, and the transition between one panel to the next. This panel-to-panel work is where you really tell your manga story and how it comes alive.
PAGE COMPOSITION
When you lay out a manga page, the number of panels you put on it goes a long way toward determining pacing, mood, excitement and feel. In general, manga has fewer panels per page and thus takes longer to tell a story than its western counterpart. One reason for that is format, as many manga go on for multiple tanko–bon volumes before arriving at an ending. See Chapter 14, “Formats & ...
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