101 Pages:

How Do Comics Work?
@PatientPyramid #howcomixwork

These are the first 101 of 1001 pages I celebrated on Twitter between July 2018 and July 2021. I hope to have all 1001 pages indexed by the end of 2022.

"The viewer, or reader, is compelled to participate in completing
and interpreting the few hints provided by the bounding lines.”

Marshall McLuhan on reading comics

"You see [the panels] simultaneously,
so you have various moments in time simultaneously made present.”

Art Spiegelman on the comics page

"Along with being an accomplished draftsman and artistic stylist, Walt is a storyteller. He doesn't just illustrate the writing — he writes with the pictures and page layouts he does.”

Archie Goodwin on visual storytelling (Source: The Art of Walt Simonson)

"The writer/artist division is unreal, if telling stories is what we are talking about. Same with taking art and story as if they were different things. This is comics, a visual medium: art is story.”

Javier Pulido on credits (Source: click here)

How do the reader's eyes travel over a comics page?

How is a page of comics designed and constructed?

📺 VIDEOS & LINKS ⬇️

Chris Samnee

Erica Henderson

Klaus Janson

Elsa Charretier

Bill Sienkiewicz

Ramona Fradon

Future Project Idea:
Wally Wood's 22 Panels
That Always Work

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Future Project Idea:
Jim Steranko's
147 Innovations

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Future Project Idea:
Marvel's Use of "Holocaust" in the Bronze Age

(Iron Fist #147)

Future Project Idea:
Splash Page
Faces

(Avengers West Coast #54)

Reed and Victor face off here.

Twitter Thread:
The De Luca Effect
(Embedded Closure)

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Twitter Thread:
Gutters & Panel Borders

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Twitter Thread:
Polyptychs

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Twitter Thread:
Vertical Panels

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#AllSwampThingsConsidered

Twitter Hashtag & Thread:

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David Mazzucchelli
Playlist

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