THE MARRA METHOD: TRADITIONAL COMICS TECHNIQUES FOR VISUAL STORYTELLING | 7. EACH PANEL IS BOTH A QUESTION AND AN ANSWER

An on-going, evolving series collecting my thoughts on the craft of telling stories through comic books. These posts do not document rules; these are the ideas passing through my mind when I'm making comic books.

7. Each panel is both a question and answer

• Marcos Martin once told me the overheard his friend Javier Pulido say to an aspiring comic book artist at a convention "Every panel is both a question and and answer."

• It sort of knocked me out.

• Each panel should both serve to answer the question posed by the previous panel, while also posing a question that will be resolved in the following panel.