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Kevin Hagerman
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Posted: 26 May 2006 at 2:54pm \| IP Logged \| 1

And when today's artists DO use several panels on a page, they sometimes STILL layout the page as a two-page spread! It's very hard to follow when on one page in a typical panel count I read the entire page, but then one page later I'm supposed to read all the top panels, then go back to the left-hand page and read all the middle panels, then go back to the left-hand page and read all the bottom panels. I just wanna mail the artists a bunch of panel arrows sometimes...

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Ian Evans
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Posted: 26 May 2006 at 2:55pm \| IP Logged \| 2

The true master of panel layout, at least to me, is Jim Steranko.

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I disagree Eric...Steranko is fabulous, fabulous comic artist, one of the very best imo, but his panel layouts could often be distracting, I think...in some cases the story came second to the artwork...this never happened with true masters of storytelling, like Steve Ditko

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John Mietus
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Posted: 26 May 2006 at 4:18pm \| IP Logged \| 3

For me, Will Eisner trumps them all. Even JB and Joe Kubert.

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Sean Hollenhors
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Posted: 27 May 2006 at 11:55am \| IP Logged \| 4

I love the way Mignola lays out his panels and pages. Very economical and
powerful.

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