Fans and historians tend to divide comics artists into two categories, with different methods and different ends. For storytellers—Frank Miller, Akira Toriyama, Will Eisner, for example—the primary aim is a coherent narrative flow, often at the expense of fine detail.
Each image is less important in itself than in how it relates to the page as a whole and is sometimes reduced to a symbolic near-abstraction, like a single word in a picture-sentence, less to be looked at than to be read. The apex of the storytelling approach, arguably, is Otto Soglow’s strip The Little King, which ...
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