There is a certain important ratio to balance the page between the text and the images.
The simplest way of doing this.
This is a way that I had heard that the strictest, um, most disciplinarian editor in the industry, who was a reputedly very unpleasant man called Mort Weissinger, who was an editor on Superman back in the '60s.
But he had said that if you've got a six panel comic book page, you could have no more than 35 words per panel.
So I thought, well, if that's strict, that's probably a good law of thumb to go, boy.
So that means, what, six times 35, that's 210.
So if you've got six panels on a page, yeah, roughly 35 words per panel, should be your maximum.
If you've got 9 panels on a page, It's what, 23 words?
If you've got 4 panels on a page, It's about 52 words per panel.
So these are the simple technical things.
