Pikko wrote:
Now that I think about it, I guess the sizing isn't all that important. The 200x200 came from us being asked not to go wider than 600 pixels on the front page, but we can always link to a larger image and the height isn't an issue really. Is three panels too restrictive as well? I had kind of thought that anything longer would be too much to ask.
Thank you for the feedback! It's really helping to flesh out the official submission guidelines page I'm writing up.
From my experience, 3 panels is almost always enough to get a decent joke out. Often times, if you go 4 5 or full-page with a joke, it really turns into multiple jokes that could have been split into a series, or just not nearly concise enough. Of course, in the same space as a 3-panel comic, some might feel inclined to just use one long panel, or two panels of varying sizes within the same template.
So yeah, 3 panels should be more than enough for now, though in the future, expansion might start to become preferred, since jokes can be as complex as their subject (FFXI being quite complex).