In a comic book story (in a journalism mode) this sense of conditions, and the amount of space involved, the arrangement of the objects, the distance between them, is seen and understood easily in a single panel or a series of panels, understood quickly through the visual language comic books utilize. Simply put, the comic book medium has many more compartments for which to load the ideas of the author.Īnother demonstration of the flexibility of the medium would be the example of a standard news story in which a reporter may describe a battlefield or a local flood, a house on fire, or a moon landing. Instead of a paragraph of text describing the clothing of a protagonist in a novel, for example, one panel showing the protagonist in a comic book story is absorbed in a micro-second by the reader.

Unlike novels and short stories, the comic book communicates physical space of a story in a truly visual way. This is a unique tool that the reader has to enjoy the work at hand. 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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