Comics have visual rhythm and language-based rhythm. Visual rhythm guides aesthetic harmony and flow. Language-based rhythm guides pacing and expectation. Both are capable of producing evocation as an outcome. (more…)
The act of recalling or creating emotional or sensual effects using panel arrangement, mark-making and colour. (more…)
A successive sequence of panels or gutters that contract in size, to quicken pacing or evoke a specific effect. (more…)
A successive sequence of panels or gutters that expand in size, to slow down pacing or evoke a specific effect. (more…)
A panel underlaps or overlaps with another's, suggesting spatial and temporal simultaneity with each other. (more…)
Flow arises when some or all visuals elements of the page are used to establish the best reading order as intended by the creator. (more…)
An arrangement of panels and gutters which utilises all or two of these devices (crossing of a partial or fully continuous background, tracking of a character and flow) to produce a scene. (more…)
A long, horizontal panel or element that crosses over the gutter of a book (the ditch where left and right pages meet at the spine). (more…)
A panel that is placed above (forepanel) or behind (backpanel) other panels. (more…)
An element in the left or right foreground of a panel or the left or right side of a canvas that directs the reader's eye into the composition. (more…)
