Verification of relation between eye motion, impression and control method for reader´s eyes flow in comics

Recently, the technique ‘Eyes Control’ has been described in the book that explains drawing style of comics. ‘Eyes Control’ is to lead flow of the eyes of a reader who chases the picture of the panel on the page. According to the book, it is possible for readers to perceive time and rhythm, etc. as eyes control effect in the comic because the author of the comics controls the flow of reader´s eyes. However, this is a hypothesis published by the author of the book based on his experience, and no one has proven it by experiments. Therefore, we prepared comics referred to the example of eyes control in the books, and analyzed readers´ eyes flow. Moreover, impression difference between comics with eyes control and without eyes control was evaluated by questionnaire. These experiments aimed to verify the effect of the eyes control in comics.