Comics Techniques

A comics page with six equal sized panels. They are arranged in three rows of two. All are long shot panels. The first two panels have the same “camera” position, seeing the main character from the back at a level angle. In the first panel, we see a man sitting at a desk. In the second, he stands and goes to the door.

The next four panels all have the same “camera” position, seeing the main character from the side at a level angle. In the third panel, the man is walking towards a set of spiral stairs and a refrigerator. In the fourth panel he has reached the refrigerator. In the fifth panel he has opened the refrigerator. In the sixth panel, he is crouching down and looking into the refrigerator.

A comics page with eight panels. The first two rows each have three panels of different sizes. The last row has one narrow and one wide panel.

In the first panel, the “camera” is looking down at a man sitting at his desk, as though perched over his shoulder. In the second panel the camera position is the same as he stands up. In the third panel we are looking down at him from a distance as he passes through a doorway towards us.

The fourth panel is a long shot showing a spiral staircase. Just a bit of the man is visible by the right border of the first panel as he looks up the staircase. The fifth panel is looking down at him from a short distance as he looks at his watch. The sixth panel is a close-up from above of his hand opening a refrigerator door.

In the seventh panel the camera is at a level angle and medium distance as he opens the refrigerator door. In the eighth panel the angle is the same, but we are much closer to the man as he crouches down to look inside the refrigerator.