it's all about composition

praise the text clouds!

I myself need to improve my own composition, as others have said. Especially since I've done comics for a client who insisted on enormous walls of text for each comic panel, which usually required me to make the font extra-small. It can be maddening to try and fit all that dialogue into one page, let alone one panel!

I see. Well, a good panel composition will be pleasing to read, even if that comic is filled with walls upon walls of text. Hence why, even though I generally draw in manga style, I like to refer to old American comics for the correct panel composition, considering my insistence on using horizontal dialogue balloons throughout all of my comics. Old American comics tend to be extremely heavy with these walls of text, because due to limited number of pages these artists are allowed to work with, and this allows them to compress much of the story in as few pages as possible.

For my Malay-language comics, I had to use smaller fonts, because Malay text tend to be a little longer than English due to our language's more heavy use of syllables per word, and in some cases, a little verbose, too.