The Saga of Spot the Snail

In Making Comics, Scott McCloud identifies six basic panel transitions that are used to convey stories in comics. For our first assignment in our comics workshop we were to draw one example of each of these transitions in three panels each. The first one listed here was a random idea that then took over the rest of the panels (with the exception of the final one, which is more of an exercise in absurdity) to form a mini-story which I have titled The Saga of Spot the Snail. There's more information about the six transitions at Scott McCloud's web site.

These quick sketches were later hand inked when I first bought my pens and wanted to ink everything I could get my hands on. Nothin' special, just wanted to throw some black lines down so it would pick up better on the scan. The pages later got crinkled in the great room shift of last weekend. Hence weirdness.

Moment to Moment


Subject to Subject



Action to Action



Scene to Scene


Aspect to Aspect



Non Sequitur Transition