The page is decided at stamp size
Thumbnails are drawn small on purpose: at two inches across you can only make the decisions that matter — where the eye enters, how many beats the page holds, which panel is biggest. Everything drawn later is execution.
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Thumbnails
Where the storytelling is decided, at stamp size.
4 pieces STAGE 2The Grid
Panels, gutters, and the reader's clock.
5 pieces STAGE 3The Line
Brush against pen, and what a varying weight buys.
5 pieces STAGE 4Tone
Grey without ink — mechanical, hand-cut, halftone.
4 pieces STAGE 5Lettering
The last structural decision on the page.
5 pieces STAGE 6The Signature
Imposition, and the page you cannot move.
4 pieces
The GridThe gutter is time
The space between panels is where the reader does the work. Widen it and more time passes; close it and the two moments become one.
The LineBrush against pen
A brush gives a line that swells and tapers from pressure alone; a nib gives control and repeatability. Most pages use both, for different jobs.
LetteringWhere the tail points
A balloon tail assigns a line to a mouth and, more importantly, fixes the order the balloons are read in. Get it wrong and the conversation inverts.
No reproduced panels, no rankings, no interviews — technique in our own words, drawn in our own hand.