The narrative path isn't changed, but the speed that the reader consumes the story is. A comic book story can stop, back up, go forward, and dwell at length on any aspect that the reader chooses. A movie is paced according to the decisions of a film editor (and a director), the comic book moves at the pace the reader decides. The comic book differs from the motion picture medium in that films are almost entirely passive in the experience of the audience. ![]() Also unlike the newspaper strip, the comic book can work at any size selected by the artist (or in multiple sizes in multiple editions). Unlike the cartoon strip of newspapers, the comic book has not only more space to say and show something, it can use unlimited numbers of pages to explore it's topic, at length or in brief. Spawned from a hybrid combination of the newspaper cartoon strip and Hollywood movies (and the use of sequential hand-drawn pictures, which already had a long history in art and caricature), "comic books" have been the most flexible art medium which communicates sight and word (and sound, if sound effect letters count for anything) in the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Comic Book and its storytelling advantages
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