1. Visual Analysis Part II
Never mistake the message—for the messenger.
Source: Understanding comics The Invisible Art Scott McClou

2. Panel to Panel Transitions
Moment-to-moment: easy to attain closure
Action-to-Action: single subject
Subject-to-Subject: while staying within a scene or idea—requires reader involvement to be successful.
Scene-to-Scene: Deductive Reasoning needed to transport the reader across significant distances of time and space.
Aspect-to-Aspect: bypasses time for the most part and sets a wandering eye on different aspects of place, idea or mood.
Non-Sequitur: no logical relationships between panels. Pg

5. Moment to Moment

6. Action to Action

7. Subject to Subject

8. Deductive Reasoning Scene to Scene

10. Aspect to Aspect Bypasses time for the most part and sets a wandering eye on different aspects of a place, idea, or mood.

11. Non-sequitur which offers no logical relationship between panels

12. Figure Ground Relationships and Negative Space
White birds or black birds

13. How we all began telling stories

14. Closure
We assume as readers that we will know what order to read panels in but the business of arranging those panels is actually quite complex.
Some artists are deliberately ambiguous.
Closure can be a powerful force within panels as well as between them, when artists choose to show only a small piece of the picture.

15. Closure
Whatever the mysteries within each panel, it’s the power of closure between panels that I find the most interesting.
There’s something strange and wonderful that happens in the blank ribbon of paper.
We already know that comics as the mind to work as a sort of in-betweener—filling in the gaps between panels as an animator might—but I believe there’s till more to it than that.

16. Time Frames

20. Transitions and Time

22. Polyptych: time and space merge

23. Can Emotion Be Made Visible?
The idea that a picture can evoke an emotional or sensual response in the viewer is vital to the art of comics.

25. Word Balloon
By far the most widely-used most complex and most versatile of comics many synaesthetic icons is the ever-present, ever-popular word balloon.
Over the years comics creators have struggled with dozens of variations in their desperate attempts to depict sound in a strictly visual medium.
Variations in balloon shape and the symbols that go inside the balloon are constantly being invented or appropriated.

31. When Bleeds are used (picture running of the page) the effect of timelessness is strengthened

36. Establishing shot Long Shot Medium shot