This has easily been the most popular post on this blog. The eight comic plots are those Gerald Mast chose to include in his book. I have a chapter in my book about story and, of course, I recommend that as further reading. Click the link to the right to see the book on Amazon.
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Here is a little more from The Comic Mind by Gerald Mast. He describes 8 basic structures of comic stories for movies. Here are brief quotes from the book with some animated examples I could think of.