Words and Images: The Craft of Comics Narration

Abstract

When adapting comics, the narrative in comics really shines through as the most powerful and unique combination of words and pictures to tell a story. What began as the simple leaflets of the early 20th century has broken new ground in its artistic variety of autobiographical broadsides, superhero epics, and heady graphic novels, making comics the medium at its most malleable. By combining the ancient crafts of written language and visual art, comics offer a unique form of storytelling that directly involves the reader in an interchange between words and pictures. Comics are unique as a storytelling medium because unlike purely prose or traditional visual art, they incorporate both aspects in to a complete, unified whole. In this article, the paper author chose to answer these questions with a study on a narrative medium: comics (more specifically comics). This may beg consideration of which attic studio artifacts result from the struggle of pop idols to maintain commercialize their work and their audience but still make an impact with high art. The paper examines the new ways in which producers are engaging viewers by looking through the lens of technologies through storytelling and visual style analysis. It also talks about how webcomics have changed over the years and how webcomics effect accessibility and reader engagement. In the end, this research is specific about not only the creative capabilities of comics as a narrative form but also how these new narratives/allegories change the way we conceive of what comics can do.