Comics

Comics are a medium that uses sequences of images, often combined with words, to tell stories or convey information.

Panel (comics): A bounded image or scene within a comic’s sequence. Panels divide a comic into units that readers connect into a continuous sequence.
Closure (comics): The mental process of inferring continuity or events between comic panels. It lets separate images suggest actions that are never shown directly.
The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck: A nineteenth-century picture story by Rodolphe Töpffer, published in English in 1842. Its linked images and captions make it a landmark in comics history.
Graphic novel: A book-length work told primarily through comics. This format supports sustained narratives and nonfiction in comics.
Illustrated book: A book in which images accompany text without necessarily forming a continuous sequence. Unlike comics, its images need not carry the narrative through panel-to-panel relations.
Gutter (comics): The space between panels in a comic. Readers infer events and transitions that the panels leave between these spaces.
Eisner's theory of comics: Will Eisner’s account of comics as an art of sequential images and visual storytelling. Eisner described how images, words, and page design work together.
Yellow Kid: A comic-strip character created by Richard F. Outcault in the 1890s. The character’s newspaper appearances helped establish the modern American comic strip.
Graphic medicine: The use of comics to explore health, illness, and medical experience. Comics can convey clinical information and personal experiences of illness.
Animation: The creation of moving images by displaying successive still images or changing visual elements. Animation presents motion over time, while comics ask readers to infer it from still images.

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