Issue 01 · Read in this order
The prompting path
Five stops. Each one is a kind of sentence. Skip ahead and the later pictures will fail for a reason you cannot name yet.
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01 · Craft · 4 min
The grammar of a panel
Learn the slots. Until a single panel is a sentence — subject, shot, angle, light, empty space — a sequence is only a pile of themes.
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02 · Craft · 4 min
One face, twelve pages
Write a lock you paste unchanged. Geometry, a hair silhouette, clothes as objects. Stop improving it mid-scene.
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03 · Craft · 4 min
Screentone is a decision
Gray is not a filter. Decide where it goes, how heavy it is, and the edge where it stops.
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04 · Craft · 4 min
Leave the gutter empty
Prompt one panel. Keep lettering, speed lines, and the next panel out of the picture. The cut is the blank you do not draw.
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05 · Method · 5 min
A one-shot in twelve lines
Put the earlier essays to work. One premise, one lock, one place, nine beats. Generate in that order, and stop when the row can be read without captions.