PBeare

notes and links about comic-making techniques and comics grammar

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Experimenting with Page Layout elements: space, image, value, type, colour, shape.

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Twenty-five minutes work to create this variant.

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Incarnations of my "Paris" layout

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Sketch for Layout Design.

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Andi Watson describes the process behind creating the Gum Girl comic.

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Article by typographer Robin Williams

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Page Size: 200mm high, 150mm wide

Font: Bodini Regular 12pt on 12 point leading

Tracking: 100 thousandths/em

Justified text; Hypenation: Off

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Page Size: 200mm high, 150mm wide

Font: Bodini Regular 12pt on 17 point leading

Tracking: -50 thousandths/em

Hypenation: Off

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Page Size: 200mm high, 150mm wide

Font: Bodini Regular 12pt on 16 point leading

Tracking: 50 thousandths/em

Hypenation: Off

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Randomly designed a grid, and measured it afterwards to discover it was exactly 2:3 in height/width!

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PDF File

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PDF FIle

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Improvisational Page Layout Design

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