Sequential Storytelling Language Comprehension

What is a gutter in sequential storytelling?

• where water flows down the drain

• the space between two panels, which connects one panel to the next

• verb: of a candle or flame flicker or burn unsteadily

• verb: talk with continued involuntary repetition of sounds, especially initial consonants.

A gutter takes two separate panels and transforms them into a single idea

• True

• False

Comic panels represent a moment in time and space, but the closure of a panel and progression between panels allows us to connect these moments. Explain how the context of the progression from one panel to the next creates continuity.

There are six main ways that panels transition from one to another:

Moment to moment

please draw an example of this type of transition in two panels

There are six main ways that panels transition from one to another:

Action to action

please draw an example of this type of transition in two panels

There are six main ways that panels transition from one to another:

Subject to subject

please draw an example of this type of transition in two panels

There are six main ways that panels transition from one to another:

Scene to scene

please draw an example of this type of transition in two panels

There are six main ways that panels transition from one to another:

Aspect to aspect

please draw an example of this type of transition in two panels

There are six main ways that panels transition from one to another:

Non-Sequitur

please draw an example of this type of transition in two panels

Please write a brief reflection on the was that comic panel transitions will aid in storytelling, and any of the panel transitions you found interesting! How would you find these transitions useful in your own work? Are there comics that you have read that make use of these transitions effectively?