Instructions
Draw three separate boxes, each one around 400 pixels high by 600 pixels wide. Then draw each of the following scenarios:

Scenario 1: A ball crashes through a window into a kitchen and rips through the newspaper of a person sitting in the room. The person reacts to the window breaking. Optional: a dog catches the ball in midair after it comes through the newspaper.

Scenario 2: Person 1 trips person 2. Person 1 is laughing, person 2 is trying to catch him or herself and is knocking over a lamp.

Scenario 3: Two guys are fighting. Guy 1 throws a rock at guy 2. Guy 2 is hit by the rock, which makes him accidentally shoot his gun into the air. The bullet hits and breaks a chain holding up a heavy lamp over guy 1's head.

Talking points
Post your work, and look at it carefully, and at other peoples work. For each panel you can ask some or all of the following questions:
~ Does the panel read correctly? In other words, does the reader's eye easily follow the sequence of events in the order you intended? Use a finger to follow the path you perceive.
~ What are alternate ways of arranging elements?
~ Does effect clearly follow cause
~ Do actions themselves follow left-to-right reading order?)Into the future? Or into the past?)
~ If movement is generally against reading order, i.e., from right to left, is it forceful enough to make the reader follow it? Other things you might look at include body language and facial expression, motion lines, and emanata(sweat, shock lines, "curse-words" !@#!)
~ For Scenario 3, look for compositional solutions that cause a reader's eye to follow the action in a clear trajectory, possibly circular, and not necessarily in standard reading order.

Discuss in my journal "Assignments 1.1".