When creating a comic book I had two important decisions to make about its format.
First, what dimensions to use, both in size and ration. I played around with various settings and ended up going with a 'widescreen' format at what I thought was a good resolution but not so high that file sizes would prove problematic.
Why did I go widescreen? Because I feel it is a good way to show more action on screen and it gives more opportunities for camera angles and character placement in a scene.
Secondly, how many panels per page? I've seen people do anything from one panel to page up to six or eight panels per page. To be clear, a panel is a single image with the attached text. In my first test comic I switched back and forth and what I found was that when I went with more panels per page I ended up with art being covered by dialogue and text boxes. So, I decided to go 1 panel per page so people can see more of the art.
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