History Main / OddShapedPanel

* WoodenRose [[http://www.woodenrosecomic.com/comic/chapter3/68.html not lined up straight]]

* Webcomic/EvilDiva: [[http://www.evildivacomics.com/?p=296 overlapping]]

A ComicBook[=/=]Comic Strip[=/=]{{Manga}}[=/=]{{Webcomic}} panel takes on an irregular shape.

* WinsorMcCay's LittleNemoInSlumberland (1905) and George Herriman's KrazyKat (1914), are possibly the trope makers. McCay created the elastic layout- in the later pages, almost no two panels are the same shape. He was also one of the first to use the 'explosion' panel. Herriman's sunday layouts featured nested panels, inset panels on open backgrounds, slanted and sliding panels, and circular panels, among others. The layout varied wildly week to week- except for a brief color run in the 20's- and sometimes dispensed with panels entirely.

* Winsor McCay's LittleNemoInSlumberland (1905) and George Herriman's KrazyKat (1914), are possibly the trope makers. McCay created the elastic layout- in the later pages, almost no two panels are the same shape. He was also one of the first to use the 'explosion' panel. Herriman's sunday layouts featured nested panels, inset panels on open backgrounds, slanted and sliding panels, and circular panels, among others. The layout varied wildly week to week- except for a brief color run in the 20's- and sometimes dispensed with panels entirely.

* George Herriman's KrazyKat, first published in 1914, is possibly the trope maker. His sunday layouts featured nested panels, inset panels on open backgrounds, slanted and sliding panels, and circular panels, among others. The layout varied wildly week to week- excpet for a brief color run in the 20's- and sometimes dispensed with panels entirely.

** Two events are happening simultaneously in different places. Two triangular panels joined along their hypoteneuses depict the events.

Depending on how they are juxtaposed, can make following the sequence difficult, since there may not be a left-to-right, top-to-bottom order. Sometimes panels are even "superimposed" as if they were on top of each other.

The simplest form is to depict something protruding from it -- but anything 2D is possible. There are a thousand ways to do this, and a million reasons.

Depending on how they are juxtaposed, can make following the sequence difficult, since there may not be a left-to-right, top-to-bottom order.

* ''DrMcNinja'', [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p11 here]] and elsewhere.
** It doesn't really seem that out of the ordinary to me.

* TheDreamlandChronicles [[http://www.thedreamlandchronicles.com/the-dreamland-chronicles/chapter-08/page-513/ mostly overlapping]]
* BobAndGeorge [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000816c Rarely]]
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* GirlGenius. Examples [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090821 here]], [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030704 here]], and [[http://girlgeniuscomic.livejournal.com/119195.html here]].

* GirlGenius. Examples [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090821 here]] and [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030704 here]].

Many of the same effects can be used on SpeechBubbles.

* Jack Cole, who assisted Eisner on the Spirit for a while, would employ odd panels in his own comics, for example in the second {{Plastic Man}} story in this [[http://colescomics.blogspot.com/2009/10/jack-coles-strange-last-plastic-man.html post]] all the parts of the story set in dreamland had wavy panel borders with black gutters in between them.
*Sam Keith's ''The Maxx'' did this all the time.

* In the GraphicNovel ''Joker'', a crash involving TheJoker and the protagonist shows the characters' reactions to the impact drawn inside of the word "CRASH" as if the word was a panel. It also uses the "Broken Glass" effect mentioned above, as if the reader is watching the characters' reaction through the breaking windshield of the car.