Beginning comic book writers: The five-panel page is your friend! It’s extremely versatile, with a great balance of panel size, space for action and dialog, while also getting your story told. Plus, artists tend to like them because there are lots of ways to draw them. I use a LOT of them!

I was about to protest that six as better, but then went and looked at my last script, where it turns out I bounced between three and five.

If I took stock of how many comic pages I've written, and divided them all by panel count, 5 Panel pages would be the leader by a very wide margin.

Hey! Thanks for this thread! Been working on writing a thing and have been trying to be mindful of space, but this is a good reference point and I'll be going back over my work with this in mind! Very helpful 💜

I don’t disagree with this, but it can definitely get tedious. I drew a Star Trek comic, based on an unused script, and all but a couple of pages were 5 panels. As a storyteller, it totally works. As a laborer, it didn’t take long for it to get old.

I tend to think of five-panel pages as the default for a general storytelling page, and then I add or subtract a panel or so as needed. I tend not to go over six panels on a page because things start to get kind of cramped and you have to be VERY careful about what you put on a six-plus panel page.