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The Nine-Panel Grid: Tom King, Collaborators, & Constraints to Creativity
My graduate thesis for the Book Publishing Program at Portland State University on the nine panel grid in comics, citing Vision, Mister Miracle, and The Sheriff of Babylon by Tom King, Mitch Gerads, and Gabriel Hernandez Walta.
Sit down. This may take a while.
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