Narrative in Comics.

Although comics represent a predominantly narrative medium, the topic of narrative in comics remains largely unexplored. The narrative features of comics are constructed in the same way as works of literature. It would be worthwhile to analyze this literary dimension and the ways in which it shapes our experiences of narrative in comics. In addition to their words, however, comics are composed of pictures, and this pictorial element is crucial to the construction of narrative. This suggests that comics are a hybrid art form that employs narrative strategies closely connected to literature, on the one hand, and other pictorial narrative media, on the other.