Comics Forum - Jab

One of our favorite running arguments here is about the gutter (the space between panels). Newer artists treat it like a wall. Veterans treat it like a doorway .

— Keep jabbing, panel-pushers.

But comics are not movies. A movie forces you to watch the frame rate. A comic lets you control time. jab comics forum

Yes, we know Watchmen did the 3x3 symmetry perfectly. Don’t just cite the classics. Show us your own warts. One of our favorite running arguments here is

We spend a lot of time on Jab debating the big stuff: inking styles, color theory, decompressed storytelling, and whether a six-panel grid is "boring" or "classic." — Keep jabbing, panel-pushers

What happens between Panel 1 (a gun aimed) and Panel 2 (a body falling)? The gutter is where the reader commits the murder . The most violent panel in comics is always a blank white line.

Think of your last "bad" reading experience. Did you have to scan the page twice to find panel three? Did your eye accidentally read the bottom-left panel before the top-right? That’s not a reader error. That’s a layout failure.