jje: Your thoughts are more akin to visual studies and "art-science" which are also important, but more focused on the page at hand than the market as a whole. If you haven't read it, Will Eisner's "Comics and Sequential Art" is an excellent study in this direction. I notice on your pages that you're struggling to find a fluent way to direct the eye, something most don't even think about when laying out a page (good for you). For ideas, check out Rick Veitch's work -- he's a genius in this regard. If you can find his "Rare Bit Fiends," flip through and notice how he composes work so that your eye follows first an arm to the first text box, then up a shoulder to someone's mouth, then to a word balloon whic breaks into the next panel, which traces the arc of a body in a swan dive, then a levelling out of debris along a horizontal plane, then up an elevator to the top of the page. Not so easy to follow in text, but his art flows like a dream. The reader is comfortable and drawn in. I think this can help you refine the interrelatedness you're looking for.