Comics: How to Design a Lot of Comic Book Pages in a Day

Simple, or perhaps NOT. 

Thumbnails.

One artist can place up to 8 layout thumbs or more on 1 piece of paper.

Generally how many thumbs and page layout thumbs on a page is in fact a pretty big indicator of how productive you probably are or at the very least, WANT TO be as a comic book artist.

Normally art teachers will tell you the size of your drawings indicates how hard you work as an artist.

Well I was looking at Akira Club by Katsuhiro Otomo, and on one or 2 pages alone, he draws up to 14 comic book layout thumbs on one page, and normally his work is very thick and big. The layouts Otomo starts off with a tiny and many of them can fit on one page. But that makes a ton of sense when you think about it, seeing as he makes each first draft thumbnail of each page layout so simple and small because he has an enormous amount of them to draw. It's one of the greatest techniques for raising comic book page layout productivity I've ever seen. Big drawings are for designing the moment. Many small, simple sketches on one page are for establishing the flow.