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BTP: Manipulating Comfort Zones with Distance

| January 13, 2014
BTP: Manipulating Comfort Zones with Distance

  That’s right. I’m looking at you. I’m watching you watching me.   How does it make you feel?   Welcome, everyone, to a new BREAKING THE PAGE, where, in this edition, we’re going to delve deep into one of the most basic tools in the repertoire of the comic creator: The use of camera […]

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BTP: Scene-To-Scene Transitions Made Easy with the Match Cut

| January 26, 2013
BTP: Scene-To-Scene Transitions Made Easy with the Match Cut

Steve Colle discusses the 9 methods of creating smooth transitions from scene to scene.

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BTP: The FIVE C’s of Pin-up Art

| December 6, 2012
BTP: The FIVE C’s of Pin-up Art

Steve Colle breaks down the 5 C’s of Great Pin-up Art in this week’s installment of Breaking the Page!

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BTP: Emmanuel Xerx’s DAREDEVIL Sequential Pages

| September 9, 2012
BTP: Emmanuel Xerx’s DAREDEVIL Sequential Pages

  Welcome to our second BTP assessment, as this time we have sequential pages by Emmanuel Xerx, who has worked from a DAREDEVIL script written by Mark Waid and originally drawn by Paolo Rivera. These pages bring us the battle of the century between the Man Without Fear and the Sentinel of Liberty, Captain America. […]

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BTP: Sedat Oezgen’s Punisher Max #6 Sequential Pages

| September 2, 2012
BTP: Sedat Oezgen’s Punisher Max #6 Sequential Pages

  In this introductory piece to the column, I’d like to establish how I’ll be presenting my commentaries on the sequential art which will be displayed. Every page has something to like about it and I will say so, but then I will be breaking down everything I see that just doesn’t work. In the […]

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