Scott McCloud's Awesome Infinite Canvass

Paper, a cloth canvass, a wall, 140 characters on Twitter, they are all restraints on dimensions. Price/advertising space on newspapers force comic strips to be usually just 3 small panels for this reason. And of course computers and that sort of stuff has been eroding these size restrictions gradually on the web, cartoonists tend to forget that really, a comic strip can be pretty much any size!

Reading through genius comic artist Scott McCloud's website, an article precisely about the infinite canvass (a must-read for comic artists!), he gives us a few examples of ways in which we can elegantly defy size. Because size matters, yo.

This one by McCloud himself: (click on the images)

Pup: Heat Death - by Drew Weing

So, as Tool say in a song of theirs

And following our will and wind,

we may just go where no one's been.

We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.

Spiral out. Keep going.

Spiral out. Keep going.

Spiral out. Keep going.

Spiral out. Keep going.