Blood in the gutter – Scotland mccloud

Categories of panel to panel transitions in comics

1. Moment to moment
2. Action to action (good for connected series of event and shows it in a concise and efficient way)
3. Subject to subject
4. Scene to scene (same as 2.)
5. Aspect to aspect (nothing happens, rarely seen in Western comics)
6. Non sequitur (Often used to set up a certain mood or a sense of place)

Western art and literature

• doesn’t wander much as for the goal oriented culture

East

• Cyclical and labyrinthine works of art
• Emphasise on being there over getting there

The more intense the closure between the panels become the more flexible the readers interpretation becomes. The closure can create