In this example, in order for it to work, the character needs to have a pause, a break. But why on earth did I make a three panels comic strip out of it? Why not using two panels instead? No text, no action, just the character standing and staring at the sky. In this comic strip, you'll notice that the panel in the middle is empty. However, I decided to choose a special example to illustrate my point. You still need to be able to extract the perfect line to create a good ending, but you have more flexibility to reach this perfect ending.
You can establish your characters and work with your text more easily. So in a way, it's totally useless to see it! Three panels:Ī three panels comic strip is the easiest one to create. Seeing the explosion or not doesn't bring more information to the reader. The reader needs to use his imagination to figure out what happened in this "invisible" panel.Īnd the strip is more straight to the point this way. Well, the answer is simply that it's funnier this way. The reader is now realizing that these penguins had the right information, but not the right method to achieved their goal!īut the important question for this two panels strip is: why isn't it a three panel one? Why did I choose NOT to show the reader what happened between these two panels (like the explosion, for example).
The second panel is simple the result of what the penguin on the left guessed in the first panel (that you need to combine fire and propane to cook stuff) But you also need to show the previous line that was said by one of the characters.Īnd this line needs to be relevant! In this example, the first panel is informing the reader that these penguins are probably not aware of the danger associated with propane. Like the one panel strip, you need to extract the perfect one line punch from a situation. In fact, in my honest opinion, it's probably the most difficult one out of the three to build. Writing a comic strip with two panels is a little more difficult to create.
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