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For questions regarding techniques and conventions used in comics, cartoons, and graphic novels, or the medium used to express narratives using still images, often in combination with text.

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Is there an "ideal" width-to-height ratio for speech bubbles in English language comics?

Effectively the graphic design version of the golden ratio in architecture For example, I've noticed that some comics tend to have very wide speech bubbles that are only a couple of lines deep, or narrow … My background is more in Asian language comics where you can fit an entire sentence in the same horizontal space as a single word written in English and the tendency is to prefer even spaced blocks of …
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What should I do to the background pallet when focussing in on a character who is distressed?

When drawing a western style graphic novel:- I have several panels in which a character is giving expository dialog. The frames are drawn with a wide viewing angle and from a distance so that several …
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