Six panel holdA regular six-panel grid holding tension by refusing to change
Panels
One idea per page, annotated
Layout advice is hard to follow in words alone, so each idea in the craft section has a page attached to it. The scenes are ordinary and the figures are clothed, because the subject here is the arrangement of the frames rather than anything happening inside them.
The wide beatA single wide panel used as a pause between two dense tiers
Turning the pageA bottom-right panel that sets up a reveal on the turn
The nine panel gridA nine-panel grid used to slow time to a crawl
The silent panelA wordless panel carrying the emotional turn
The sample pages on this site are original art drawn for it, each one built around a single layout idea set out in the text beside it. They are not historical comics, they do not reproduce any published comic, and they are attributed to no cartoonist.
A layout is a decision about what to withhold
Comics learned that from people who were already good at it. The originals are not on a drawing board.
See where that happens