Designing Comic Book Covers
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Comic book artists use size and location on covers to convey information hierarchy, with the title being largest and highest to indicate most importance. Smaller text like writer and artist names are placed lower. Artists also employ organizational schemes like "Z" or "V" shapes and central focal points to guide reader's eyes through text and images in a coherent manner.
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Designing Comic Book Covers
- 1. Designing Comic Book Covers
- 2. When comic book artists create a cover for a book, they use size and location to The title is the most show the hierarchy of information. important, so it is big Bigger blocks of text are more important and near the top. and the higher a block of text is on the cover, the more important it is. The names of the writers and artists are less important, so they are smaller and near the bottom.
- 3. Artist also use several organizational schemes to guide the reader’s eye through the text and image so that the reader takes in all the information in a way that makes sense. Here are a few “Z” Design examples.
- 4. “Z” Design
- 5. “Z” Design
- 6. “Z” Design
- 7. V Shaped
- 8. V Shaped
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- 12. Left-hand Column