Graphic

Novel
Panels & Features

Ananya Jain
Aarav Jain
Aaradhya Khandelwal
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Graphic Novels? Panels Dialogue Boxes
What are graphic novels? What are panels? What are dialogue boxes?
Some features of a Types of panels & Types of dialogue boxes &
graphic novel … effects … effects …

04
Art
The art style used & its
effect.
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Graphic
Novels
 What are graphic novels?
● A graphic novel is a form of literature
● It utilizes sequential art, combining detailed illustrations with text to
convey a complete, complex narrative that can encompass a wide
range of themes and genres.

How is it different from comics?

● Comic books are often shorter
● Comic books are a part of a serialized storytelling tradition
● They cater to a broader audience and subject matter.
 Features:

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Panels Dialogue Boxes Art
Panels:
Graphic novels are composed of
individual panels.

● They are framed images that

organize the story's visual
sequence. Dialogue Boxes
● These contain text
representing
Art: character dialogue,
The visual elements in graphic novels thoughts, and
narration, offering
● Including illustrations, character insights into the story
designs, backgrounds, and and characters.
artistic techniques, enhance the
storytelling experience.
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Panels:
TYPES:
❖ Splash Panel:
➢ Splash panel is a full page panel
➢ artist can show greater detail
of a scene.
❖ Overlapping Panel:
➢ can be used for emphasis
➢ depict almost simultaneous
❖ Vertical Panel: events in the storyline.
➢ Long vertical panel ❖ Open Panel:
➢ Can be used to show ➢ one or more, or even all, of
simultaneous events the sides of the comic panel
➢ focus on/ introduce a are open
character ➢ Used for dramatic effect.
❖ Horizontal panel:
➢ used to show a scene/
scenery.
 SPLASH PANEL VERTICAL PANEL

OPEN PANEL

HORIZONTAL PANEL

OVERLAPPING PANEL
EXAMPLE OF AN
ANALYSIS OF A
SPLASH PANELS IN

PERSEPOLIS
Page 71
❖ “And so I was lost, without any bearings… What could
be worse than that?”
➢ after she has been disconnected from God and
she feels alone in the universe
➢ “MARJI, RUN TO THE BASEMENT ! WE’RE BEING
BOMBED !!”
➢ lone Marji floating out in space. Her face, is
blank and emotionless
➢ Combining a frantic speech bubble and an
unresponsive Marji in the same panel emphasizes
how withdrawn Marji is.
➢ Satrapi uses the large panel to signify two
different things, how small Marji feels in this
moment and the polar extremes between the
quiet of space and the force of the bombs
 Gutter:

What is a ‘gutter’ ?
● The space between the panels.

Why is it important?
● acts as an invisible messenger
within comics
● passes information but is simply
an empty space.
● the reader moves from one
panel to the next and comes to
a conclusion about what is
happening.
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Dialogue Boxes
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ART
ART:
❖ Persepolis chose to employ
simplistic, undetailed cartooning.
❖ According to Mcloud, the more
accurate, detailed faces actually
detract from the novel’s realism,
whereas in the more “cartoonified”
depictions it is easier for the
audience to project the mental state
upon them.
❖ So in a sense, it is the reader who
fills in the image’s detail thereby
achieving a greater believability in
the character by the reader.
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