I got the book Drawing Words & Writing Pictures by Jessica Abel and Matt Madden . It's all about doing cartooning, single panel types, strips, graphic novels, etc. They also put out a book called Mastering Comics which I'm only partway through.
But from what they said in the first book I'm making all sorts of 'beginner mistakes' with my cartooning.
1. Limit the use of exclamation points. NEVER use more than one.
2. Word balloons sticking over the framing lines (ok, I stopped doing that)
3. Panels need to be separated with a gutter (space) between them. I don't do that, the lines are drawn and no space put between them, though I can see that the space IS good for putting your name and the publishing date in there with very very tiny font.
I also messed up on hand writing the dialog. Yet they say it's 'not done' using a standard font style, and recommend making your own font to upload to your system..... Dude..... do you know the spacing issues with that stuff?
Well.
OK.
I guess I did do some of it wrong, but I did a LOT of it right, so I'm not that upset. I'm not going back to fix strips that were drawn three years ago. And I like my exclamation marks. They stay in.
I'll just make sure I print a little neater on the dialog.
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