Jab Comics Forum May 2026

We’ve seen a wave of artists coming from storyboards trying to make comics look like movies. They use wide, horizontal panels. Lots of "camera" movement. Zoom. Pan. Dolly.

The best modern layouts (think Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith or Step by Bloody Step ) use the grid to create a . They break the panel only when the emotion breaks. They merge panels to merge moments. jab comics forum

One of our favorite running arguments here is about the gutter (the space between panels). Newer artists treat it like a wall. Veterans treat it like a doorway . We’ve seen a wave of artists coming from

Think of your last "bad" reading experience. Did you have to scan the page twice to find panel three? Did your eye accidentally read the bottom-left panel before the top-right? That’s not a reader error. That’s a layout failure. The best modern layouts (think Monsters by Barry