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Putting It Together: Layout Exercise, Michael W. Hancock
Putting It Together: Layout Exercise, Michael W. Hancock
Comics and Graphic Novels
This hands-on short activity (~20 minutes, or longer with optional writing, reading, and discussion components) introduces students who are studying comics to layout, a key component of comics’ graphic language. Students begin thinking about the arrangement of panels on a page or over the course of several pages in comics. Students reassemble a wordless page of comics that has been cut up into separate panels and then explain how their new page constitutes a coherent, meaningful page.