Class, here are two templates I made this morning for bleed comic-book pages. One is for your 11x17 original art and one is for your rough layouts.
The essential stats of the larger one are these: The original-art image area is 10 5/16" x 15 3/4" The bleed area is the outer 1/8" of that, all around--the bleed area being what the printer printer trims away at the edge after the book is bound. The "live area," within which all balloons, captions, and lettering must be contained, is 9" x 13 5/8", centered.
I'd suggest marrying your layouts with this template in Photoshop, then having me print it out as large as possible on 11" x 17" Bristol.
OR...
You could print out the smaller, "two-up" version of the template and do two layouts side-by-side on the same sheet of letter-sized paper.
You should pencil and ink just past the outer blue border in any part of the art you want to bleed. The border of the live area works well as a rule-of-thumb container for the panel borders of non-bleed panels. That's why I printed it out in gray in the two-up layout version. I'll print one of these out and bring it to class so you can see what I'm talking about.
JH
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