The Creator's Guide to Comics Devices is OPEN!!!

comicsdevices.com

An online library of visual-narrative devices that are used in the medium of comics and other sequential art.

Happy Halloween! I'm really excited to be finally launching* what is maybe one of my most ambitious, largest work yet.
This online library is the next phase of a research project that began in May 2020, when I first mused on how comics as a field doesn't have a resource that catalogues devices used in the medium. Like, theatre has devices, so does literature, and film! So why shouldn't comics?

I always had an interest in comics studies and analysis. I love reading, making and thinking comics. However most of my knowledge was intuitive - I learned comics from osmosis and experience. This is true for many of my peers. Speaking about comics as a creator is hard, because we don't have a robust system of language. When we had to speak, many of us tend to reach for the language developed for film by film practitioners. If there is language specific to comics, it's either scattered in multiple blogs or hidden away in academic journals.

The Comics Devices library is meant to aggregate everything and everybody into a single hub! After exploring some multiple resources, alongside some original, independent research, here is the first edition!

Note: The Comics Devices project is still a work-in-progress! It's not final, nor will it ever be. This is why I am seeking contributors to help build this library. Translations, comics examples, etc. There is a lot of work to do! If you are interested, reply to this post or submit an expression of interest on this page.

Have fun everyone!!

She goes by "Gee Jii".
I like the concept and know how she'd fit into a particular story, so I'm still figuring out the particulars of her design.
Want to go for more of a mystical / dancer look without sliding into cultural appropriation / racism / Disney territory.

Went hard in the paint and drew a high quality blorbo. I don't know why. I think it was just to prove I could do a decent full body.

Anyway, here is my Goblin Yakuza who calls himself Gabuza. He can't read and has no idea what the belt buckle means. If any of you tell them I will kill you in Minecraft.

Also he can't tie knots. But he's Punk as FUCK.

The first piece I'm uploading here! I saw this little bumblebee a few years ago while working on something for a class. (Probably only the white background version will go up for sale eventually, since the border on the other is kinda off ^^;.)