Does anyone use first person perspective in your comic?

[TristanJensen]

The reason I'm asking is because I'm in the process of writing a story that heavily relies on seeing specific scenes through the eyes of the protagonist. Not all of them, but quite a few of them. And I've noticed I don't really see scenes like that very often often outside of scenes where someone waking up to see people standing over them if they fainted or fell asleep like this.

So, is that something anyone here has tried this outside of that particular circumstance?

[gateofselidor]

I did the opposite once. A panel as the protagonist was passing out.

[Valyson]

I want to try that in my comic Omi-Ni because it looks like a nice effect to add. Looks interesting.

[kambreapratt]

We have used dreams by the protagonist. So it gives a kind of first person perspective.

[zetina]

I like that effect. Like when revealing a character's appearance, or when the character's identity needs to be secret for whatever reason. There are lots of uses of this in other media. I haven't had the opportunity to implement it myself though. I've done the "waking up" thing maybe twice in the past.

There's a specific situation I'd want to see it used more often though - flashbacks. I get that usually those scenes are for the reader... But if it's to get the reader to understand the character's perspective better, their POV is the best place for them to be. What did they see? What did they focus on? Stuff like that.

[phen]

First person perspective would be crazy throughout a whole comic -- there's a lot of narrative you could manipulate through focusing on the vantage of a character's peripheral scope. Like @zetina mentions, such personal things like flashbacks could contain a subtext of whatever kinds of things a character would exaggerate or overlook depending on their condition. It would be a psychological feast, man.

And oh! There's a comic I've seen on tumblr that is AWESOME. It has a large part of a plotpoint's reveal hinged on first person perspective here>>. Really successful, I think!

[UzukiCheverie]

I've got one awesome scene prepared for later on in Time Gate, where a character gets attacked by a monster, and their hearing is knocked out from the shock, and everything from that point on is the sight of his friends helping him out, screaming in the background, but you can't actually see what they're saying, so the speech bubbles are empty, because he can't hear it. It's a neat scene that I'm hoping I'll be able to pull off through the visuals.

I think there are a lot of neat things you can pull off with the first person perspective, as long as you're careful with it, and it works for the situation. Just gotta think outside the box!

[Choosybeggar]

Can't say that I do. However, I love it when comics go outside the norm on stuff like that. As long as you can tell what's going on, or at least the visual cues are strong and unmuddled, first person can turn a good comic into something special. Wish I could remember some examples, but I do know I've seen it used well before.

[thatphilippekid]

You should definitely check out Daybreak, a comic done entirely in the first person. It's immersive, and has a great creepy vibe to it as well.
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[J.MORK]

i just did that on a recent page. ive got my guy looking down at his hands

if anything, it's different than the usual panel so it's a lot more fun to draw :o)

[changamiremcclam]

I've used first person mainly to show some one waking up but I doubt anyone uses it like fps does.