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.
Because on the page, location is everything. jab comics forum
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 . What happens between Panel 1 (a gun aimed)
We’ve seen a wave of artists coming from storyboards trying to make comics look like movies. They use wide, horizontal panels. Lots of "camera" movement. Zoom. Pan. Dolly. jab comics forum
But comics are not movies. A movie forces you to watch the frame rate. A comic lets you control time.