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Undemocratic Layout: Eight Methods of Accenting Images

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: This essay compiles a range of 40 graphic narratives in order to identify and categorize the ways in which artists visually differentiate individual panels from other panels within page layouts. By differentiating or accenting a panel, creators give the accented panel’s story content greater value relative to other story content depicted on the same page. This essay explores the eight most common methods.

Source: The Comics Grid Journal of Comics Scholarship

DOI: 10.16995/cg.102

Author: Chris Gavaler

Institution: Washington and Lee University

Language: English

Topic: Comics and Graphic Narratives

Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2803703532

FWCI: 21.39

Cites: 1

Cited by: 7

Related to: 10