[Comicsstudiessociety] Nine-panel grid

[Aidan Diamond]

Hi all,

I’m working on a comic that, like Watchmen, pretty much exclusively uses the nine-panel grid or variations of it. I was wondering if anyone knows whether Watchmen, certainly the first to popularize this grid, was the first to use it to such a degree? There must be earlier examples, even of single pages using the grid, but I’m unfortunately not well-versed in comics before the eighties. Basically, I’m wondering if—much as this comic, The Seeds, is clearly drawing on a lineage to Watchmen—if Watchmen was visually establishing its own lineage, much as it does metatextually and thematically, and what that lineage is, exactly.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.

Best,
Aidan

Aidan Diamond
Ph.D. Candidate | Teaching Assistant
Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
Comparative Media and Culture
University of Southern California
aidandia at usc.edu
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