Comics as a Cohesive Individualized System

Probably one of the most challenging things to do involving drawing comics, is deducing how to construct a visual narrative and aesthetic "language", cohesive consistency, or internal logic of each page and the series of pages of sequential art that makes up a comics serial. Though all pages look different on the surface, even for individual books, if you look hard enough at the mechanics of page composition, you will find each comics title for the most part, has it's own visual patterns, from the kind of camera shots used to the way the pages are inked, to the composition of each page. Good comics and manga, and good creators have their own unique "hidden langauge" (if you will) of cohesive artwork, a system that starts from Page One and stays consistent, continuing to The End of the Series.

It's almost kind of like a Zen Riddle. You SEE the comic book sequential art, but do you truly SEE the internal logic of the (sequential) art? It very much goes beyond mere panels and pages and extends to composition, rhythm, and timing.

Good Creators Create their own Sequential art visual storytelling narrative style and system with its own hidden logic, much that is left unsaid, the vast majority of the time. But if you really look for the hidden sequential art logic, you too CAN see it. The closest filmmaking technique I can think of to compare to such an exercise is to study the editing of cinematography and camera cuts in Hollywood or Asian films.