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Tagged for posts that tell a story with sequential panels of events or dialogue. Note, however, that a single panel can take up an entire page (i.e., an entire post) of a multi-page comic. However, the single-panel pages must still retain some comic structure, such as frames or page numbering.
- Comics should be pooled together.
- The cover of a comic pool should be tagged as cover page.
- For single-page stories that don't use panels or that have decidedly shallow narratives, tag sequence instead.
- If a sequence of posts lacks comic elements such as frames and page numbering, it's just a pool instead of a comic.
- Character count is tagged by the scene. For example, if the page depicts three characters having dinner at the same table, it should be tagged as a group even if they're shown in separate panels. Likewise, if a single character is seen three times in three separate panels, it still counts as solo.
Do not confuse with
- comic_book - depiction of an actual printed comic book
- multiple_images - post contains two or more unrelated images
Comic features
Pages
Comic length
- small_comic - 2 to 10 page comic.
- medium_comic - 10 to 20 page comic.
- large_comic - A comic with more than 20 pages.
Cover pages
- cover_page - Front cover, or the cover of a chapter
- back_cover
Special pages
Themes
- author's_note
- credits
- narration - Often contained within text boxes
- synopsis - A summary of events
- title
Page elements
- page_number
- Production information (logo, signature, watermark)
Narrative elements
- pictographics
- text
- caption
- dialogue
- inner_monologue
- Language (english_text, japanese_text, etc.)
- sound_effects
Text containers
Panel concepts
A comic panel is a drawing that represents a frozen moment in time. A panel is sometimes described as a frame for the purpose of counting panels.
Specialized panels
- borderless_panel (open panel) - The term for an unframed comic panel.
- cutaway - A context dependent frame showing additional content within a scene, usually an inset.
- fade_panel - A black, white, or greyscale panel used to imitate a fade transition.
- horizontal_panel / vertical_panel
- inset (currently aliased to cutaway) - Any comic panel that is fully contained within another image. See also panel_overlap
Design themes
- panel_interaction - Interacting with the gutter space, or the panel itself in some creative way.
- panel_overlap - A panel that overlaps another panel.
- panel_skew - Adjacent panels sharing a slanted border.
- panel_symmetry
- panel_tilt - A panel that has been rotated.
Content themes
Content generally refers to anything contained within a comic panel (excluding insets, and usually narrative graphics as well) with a primary focus on the scene, and its characters. Several concepts are organized based on whether a concept relates to the comic panel container itself, or its contents.
- content_repetition
- interaction_between_panels - The concept of being aware or interacting with entities between two separate frames. See also breaking_the_fourth_wall.
- outside_panel - This will be a WIP group for now.
Layouts
A comic layout is the specific organization of panels on a single page.
Categories
A layout category suggests that the entire comic page conforms to a certain standard outlined by a layout tag. For features that only partially apply to the layout, consider using the tag format <tag name here>_(layout) instead.
- borderless_layout
- Grid layouts
- horizontal_layout / vertical_layout
Components of layouts
A layout component is a feature of a comic page that may only partially describe the layout of the page.
- blockage_(layout)
- separation_(layout) - A term for comics that don't space panels in an orderly way. Panels may not be aligned in a consistent way that fills the entire page evenly leaving abnormal blocks of space between the panels. The regions between insets over a page-sized borderless panel may qualify as gutter space.
- staggered_grid
- staggering_(layout)
Related tags
See also
The following tags are aliased to this tag: comic_page, comic_strip, comics, cómic, dojin, doujin, doujinshi, manga (learn more).
The following tags implicate this tag: 2koma, 4koma, animated_comic, end_page, first_page, interactive_comic, one_page_comic, one_panel_comic (learn more).
