Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow American Comic Book Style: Panels sized unevenly, figures breaking slightly past the borders
- Type
- Set in American Comic Book Style's manner (Effects held in outlined bursts, dialogue set tight in caps), and let Webtoon (Vertical-Scroll Comics)'s lettering (Dialogue does not have to stay inside the frame, so push it into the blank. Separating narration from speech that way pulls the narrator apart from the character.) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in American Comic Book Style's material (Heavy black contours filled by four-color overprints and dot screens); bring in exactly one thing from Webtoon (Vertical-Scroll Comics) (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.).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #EDE6CA, #354751, #FFFFFF.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- 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.
Image prompt
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.
Related entries
- American Comic Book Style 1938– / Style / Illustration Styles
The grammar of exaggeration born from four-color printing and Ben-Day dots: bold outlines, primary-color costumes, speed lines and bursting onomatopoeia printing American myth on cheap newsprint.
- Webtoon (Vertical-Scroll Comics) 2003– / Layout / Reading on the Web
A comics layout that grew on Korean portals and runs down a single column. The blank space between panels stops being a mere break and becomes the material, because its length carries elapsed time or a change of scene while it also takes on background colour, falling rain, and even the dialogue lifted out of the frames. Since the reader cannot glance ahead, the act of scrolling becomes the passage of story time.
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