comic book help!!!?

Question

Comic book help!!

Its very hard to explain: In a comic book, when your foreground changes and your background stays the same when you go on to the next panel, is it better to redraw that same background in that next panel or just leave it blank and draw just the altered foreground. In other words: if I drew a picture of two dogs with a house in the background, is it better to draw that house in the background of the next panel of the two dogs, or is it better to not draw the house and leave the background white with just the dogs in that next panel.

If you don’t understand my question I will reword it differently in the future

Answer 1

Once the setting has been established, and if its of no further relevance, its wiser to drop it for clarity's sake.

To use your example, if the dogs wound up discussing the house, it should be shown in more panels. If the house is part of the punchline, it should be shown in the final panel. If the dogs never refer to the house, it is not needed past its establishing panel.

Mind you, that's not a hard and fast law or anything, just general artistic "rules" - but rules were meant to broken!