# American Comic Book Style × Webtoon (Vertical-Scroll Comics) — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=american-comic-style+webtoon-vertical-scroll
# American Comic Book Style carries the structure. Webtoon (Vertical-Scroll Comics) appear as accents, each further back than the last.
# Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work.

An original image that takes its structure from American Comic Book Style (Style, 1938–) and its accent from Webtoon (Vertical-Scroll Comics) (Layout, 2003–). Structural cues: Bold outlines, primary color; Ben-Day dot screens; Bursting sound effects; Panels exaggerating motion. Accent cues, used sparingly: Panels line up in a single vertical column, with nowhere for the eye to move sideways; The blank between panels runs longer than the panels themselves and holds background colour, falling rain, or dialogue; A single panel roughly eight times taller than it is wide, needing several scrolls before it can be seen whole; Full colour from the outset, drawn to one fixed width matched to the screen. Composition: Panels sized unevenly, figures breaking slightly past the borders. Type and lettering: Effects held in outlined bursts, dialogue set tight in caps. Let one material quality come from the second style: Assume full colour throughout and let the background colour of the gaps set the mood of an episode. Pour a repeating image such as rain or a falling body through the blanks until the edge between gap and panel dissolves.. Mood: Exhilaration, Play, Nostalgia, Intimacy. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #EDE6CA, #354751, #FFFFFF. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - American Comic Book Style: Laying on dots and primaries while thinning the contours means the drawing stops reading the instant the inks shift on press.
# - Webtoon (Vertical-Scroll Comics): Stacking print page layouts one under another turns the blanks back into meaningless slack and disables the pacing mechanism that sits at the centre of the form.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/american-comic-style/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/webtoon-vertical-scroll/design.md