COMIC STRIP

A sequence of drawings in boxes that tell an amusing story,

typically printed in a newspaper or magazine.
 COMIC STRIP
A sequence of drawings in boxes that tell an amusing story,
typically printed in a newspaper or magazine.
 HISTORY
Started in black and white in the 1920’s newspapers.
Meant to be “comical”
Have been a way to tell a story, define culture, and express a social issue for years .
Comic strip, series of adjacent drawn images, usually arranged horizontally, that are
designed to be read as a narrative or a chronological sequence.
 PANELS
A panel is an individual frame, or single drawing in the multiple panel sequence of a comic strip or comic
book.
It is the smaller box on a page in which the images are drawn. A panel consists of one drawing that depicts
a single moment in time.
 SPEECH BUBBLES
Graphic used to assign ownership of dialogue.
Speech bubbles are used to tell your readers what each character in your comic strip is saying and feeling.
There are lots of different ways in which speech bubbles can to be drawn.
 There are
lot of different ways
in which speech bubble can be drawn
 TYPE OF SPEECH BUBBLE

Scream Bubbles
Indicate a character is screaming or shouting. They have jagged edges.
 A word that imitates the sound that it is describing.
Famously used in comics as a pictorial representation of a sound effect.
 TYPE OF SPEECH BUBBLE

Colored bubbles
Conveys the emotion that goes with the speech, such as red for anger.
 Thought bubbles
Graphic used to show internal thoughts of a character.
Usually cloud shaped and connected to owner by a series of smaller bubbles.
 CAPTIONS
Narrative device used to convey information that cannot be communicated by speech.
Usually takes the form of a small rectangular box situated rectangular box situated in
a corner of the panel.
PANEL FRAMES
• Border or edges of a panel.
• Usually rectangular in shape, but cloud shaped can
indicate a dream/ flashback and one with a jagged edge
can indicate anger/shock.
 HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF A
COMIC panel
Notice how each frame shows an action.
Some frames are of scenes and others are close ups.
WHAT MAKES AN EFFECTIVE COMIC STRIP?

• An effective comic strip has a goal.

• It is simple
• It has a background story and character(s)
• 2-3 colors are used
• An effective comic strip’s purpose is clear.