Your hand-drawn draft must include: at least three pages and 18 panels (six to nine panels per page), including all characters (as stick-figures), all bubbles (speeches and thoughts) and narrative boxes and words.
★ As shown in the examples below, the gutters (the space between panels) should be very thin. The panels should therefore fill up the entire pages.
★ The placement and size of your panels, characters, bubbles and words should be determined very carefully.
★ Your story needs to be word-focused, not image- or action-focused. Nearly every panel must include words in thought or speech bubbles or in narrative boxes.
